East Baton Rouge County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Sachse, Maurice March 31, 1894
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Author: Henry E Chambers
Maurice B. Sachse is one of the representative business men of the younger
generation in the City of Baton Rouge, where he is secretary and treasurer 4)1
the Baton Rouge Electrical & Machine Works, Inc. He was born at Vicksburg,
Mississippi, March 31, 1894, and his father, Victor A. Sachse, who was born in
Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, in 1866, passed the closing years of his life in
Baton Rouge, where his death occurred November 11, 1921. He was a son of
Theodore C. Sachse. who was born in Germany and who was a boy when his parents
immigrated to the United States and established their home in Illinois, where
they passed the remainder of their lives, the father, Dr. Maurice Sachse,
having received superior educational advantages in his native land and having
become a leading physician and surgeon in Illinois, where he served as personal
physician to Mrs. Lincoln, first wife of Abraham Lincoln. Theodore C. Sachse
became a successful planter and merchant in Tensas Parish, and was a gallant
soldier of the Union Army in the Civil war. He died in the City of New
Orleans, and his wife, who was born in Germany and whose maiden name was
Wilhelmina Weis, was a resident of Baton Rouge at the time of her death.
Victor A. Sachse was reared in Tensas Parish, and his educational advantages
included those of Centenary College at Jackson, this state, in which he was
graduated. He was for a term of years a successful traveling salesman, and
during the last fourteen years of his life was thus a representative of the
firm of Ely & Walker of St. Louis, Missouri. He was a young man when he
established his residence in New Orleans, where he continued to maintain his
home until 1900, the remainder of his life having been passed in Baton Rouge.
He was a director of the Bank of Baton Rouge at the time of his death, and in
the capital city was affiliated with St. James Lodge No. 47, Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons, and Baton Rouge Lodge No. 490, Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks. At Vicksburg, Mississippi, was solemnized his marriage to Miss Fannie
Bloomenstich, who was there born in September, 1874, a daughter of Isaac
Bloomenstich and Carolyn Frank.
Isaac Bloomenstich was a gallant soldier of the Confederacy, having served in
the Eleventh Louisiana Regiment. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Sachse
has continued her residence in Baton Rouge. Maurice B., of this review, is the
eldest of four surviving children; Violet is the wife of Joseph Wolf, a
principal of the Davis Safe Company at Shreveport, Louisiana; Victor A., Jr.,
is (1924) a student in the law department of the University of Louisiana; and
Carolyn is a student in the literary or academic department of the same
institution.
In the public schools of Baton Rouge Maurice B. Sachse continued his studies
until he had profited by the curriculum of the high school, and in 1909 he was
matriculated in the University of Louisiana, in which he continued his studies
three years, at varying intervals. In 1914 he assumed a position in the employ
of the Cahn Electric Company of Shreveport, where he remained two years. He
then returned to Baton Rouge, and here he held for one year the position of
sales manager for the Capital City Auto Company, a position from which he
retired to enter service in connection with the World war.
Mr. Sachse was one of the very first volunteers to enter military service after
the nation became involved in the World war, as is evident when it is noted
that his enlistment occurred April 6, 1917, the very day that the United States
formally declared war against Germany. He was sent to Camp Nicholls, New
Orleans, and later was assigned to Camp Beauregard, this state, whence he was
transferred to Leon Springs, Texas. With his command he disembarked at Brest,
France. in August, 1918, as a member and sergeant major of the One Hundred and
Fourteenth Field Signal Battalion. He took part in the historic Meuse-Argonne
offensive and was several times in service on German soil. After the close of
the war he finally returned to his native land, and at Camp Shelby,
Mississippi, he received his honorable discharge in August, 1919. After the
signing of the armistice he found opportunity to attend the University of
Montpelier, France, where he specialized in the study of French language and
also in international law.
After the close of his military career Mr. Sachse returned to Baton Rouge,
where he has since been one of the interested principals in the Baton Rouge
Electrical & Machine Works, of which corporation he is secretary and treasurer,
this being the leading concern of its kind in East Baton Rouge Parish and its
business being one of substantial order. Mr. Sachse is a progressive member of
and worker in the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce, is a member of the Retail
Credit Men's Association of Baton Rouge, is aligned in the local ranks of the
democratic party, and is affiliated with St. James Lodge No. 47, Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons, Washington Chapter No. 57, Royal Arch Masons, and Lambert
Council. He is a member of Nicholson Post No. 38, American Legion.
June 16, 1920, recorded the marriage of Mr. Sachse and Miss Debora Kaufman, who
was born and reared in Baton Rouge and whose youthful education included a
course in the Southwest Louisiana Industrial Institute at Lafayette. Mr. and
Mrs. Sachse have a charming little daughter, Annie Violet, who was born
September 26, 1921.
Additional Comments:
A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 141-142, by Henry E. Chambers. Published
by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.
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