Here
is my 2012 post on Ferdinand Schlesinger:
I
just read this amazing Milwaukee Magazine story by B. Ellen von Oostenburg about Schlesinger,
and his famous daughter-in-law, Mona Travis
Strader Schlesinger Bush Williams von Bismarck-Schönhausen de Martini:
http://www.milwaukeemag.com/2010/02/22/HighSociety/
While
this article does not mention Schlesinger's Mayville iron works, with
their inherited wealth the Schlesinger children, Henry, Armin and
Gertrude, likely had little concern for their Mayville operations after
Ferdinand died in 1921. The von Oostenburg article states Henry was
interested in his horses in Kentucky. Armin is described as an
industrialist who retired to Naples, Florida. And daughter Gertrude married Myron T. MacLaren, a vice
president of a brokerage company. Gertrude's daughter said
that "[m]other alone inherited $$80 million" from
Ferdinand.
