Henry Excellent

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Herbert Frederick "Henry" Trefflich (born January 9, 1908 in the Heinrich Fockelmann pet shop , Hamburg ; † July 7, 1978 in Bound Brook , New Jersey ) was an American pet dealer of German origin.

His father Heinrich Trefflich (1869–1932), who came from Großhettstedt , had moved to Hamburg with Karoline Jahn, where they initially worked as servants on passenger ships. Heinrich then served in the Imperial Navy and later worked for a shipping company, collecting animals from different ports and bringing them back to Germany. He was able to impress August Fockelmann with his knowledge of animals and became manager of his zoo.

Henry accompanied his father on safaris to Africa and possibly ended up in India. As a 14-year-old he was hired as a cabin boy, came to New York and stayed with relatives. He worked as a dishwasher, returned to Germany and then traveled legally to the USA. From 1928 he started to catch animals himself and later turned to trading, and was in contact with Christoph Schulz in East Africa. In 1940 he lived in Yonkers with his older sister Eliza and brother-in-law Fred Ungemach.

Ham , 1961

He was a well-known animal dealer and specialized in monkeys, some of which by the space program Mercury of NASA came into space. In 1950 he set up a monkey reconditioning project on Walston Farm near Accomac, Virginia . Around 1953 he achieved 3/4 of his turnover with research institutions. He rented 1000–1500 monkeys to parks.

He often made headlines that a few animals escaped from him. In the 1960s, the city urged him to vacate his headquarters at 228 Fulton Street for the WTC .

He was married to Alberta Esther Stetin Schmidt (1918–2007).

Publications

  • with Baynard Kendrick: They Never Talk Back. 1954
  • with Edward Anthony: Jungle for Sale. Hawthorne Books, New York 1967.

literature

  • Current Biography Yearbook. Volume 14, HW Wilson Co., 1953, p. 57

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.trefflich.de
  2. ↑ Find A Grave
  3. ↑ http://www.archives.com/1940-census/henry-trefflich-ny-58367118
  4. ^ Billboard Apr. 11, 1953; Pp. 49, 59
  5. ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=22908228
personal data
SURNAME Fine, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Excellent, Herbert Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American animal dealer
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1978
Place of death Bound Brook , New Jersey