Arthur Everett

Arthur Friedrich Waldemar Ewert was born in Berlin on December 29, 1889. His father, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ewert, died sometime before 1896, before Arthur and his mother entered New York on November 11, 1896. Two days later, the widowed Augusta Ewert married August Holznagel, a young German widower living in New Jersey. August had a daughter named Antonia. Arthur grew up in Paterson New Jersey. By 1910 Arthur anglicized his name to Arthur Everett. In 1917 he dutifully registered for the draft as Arthur F Ewert, in Paterson. He listed his declared intention to become a US citizen and his responsibility to support his mother and step-father. In 1926, he married Gladys Ida Coleman and listed his birthplace as Paterson, New Jersey. His birth is listed as New Jersey in the 1930 and 1940 census, and in his 1942 draft card. He died in 1958 and is buried in Flushing, New York. Gladys died in 1975.