The Post's New Yorker

The Post's New Yorker

The State Department which has held up the passports of Capt. Eddie Schneider, former holder of the junior transcontinental flying record - on the grounds that he isn't a citizen - now admits it was joking.

Source: Washington Post; October 21, 1937

Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) Associated Press photo used on December 23, 1940

Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) Associated Press photo used by the New York Times on December 23, 1940

Eddie Schneider, 26 (above), a flying instructor, was killed December 23, when the light plan in which he was flying was in collision with a Navy plane over Floyd Bennett Field in New York City. George Herzog, 22, a pilot taking a refresher course with Schneider also was killed when the plane plummeted into Jamaica Bay

Source: Associated Press photo 16895, December 23, 1940; Joseph Drew; New York City. Copyright: 1940. Note: A crop of this photo was used in the New York Times on December 23, 1940. Note: The photo appears to be from 1930-1931.

Emil August Schneider (1886-1955) passport application for April 22, 1914

Emil August Schneider (1886-1955) passport application for April 22, 1914

• Name: Emil A. Schneider
• Birth Date: 15 Mar 1886
• Birth Place: Bielefeld, Germany
• Gender: Male
• Residence: N Y City, New York
• Passport Issue Date: 22 Apr 1914
• Spouse Name: Inga Schneider
• Child: Eddie August Henry Schneider
• Child: Alice Paula Schneider
  
• Passport Includes a Photo: N

Source: Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925 (M1490) Note: This makes Eddie August Schneider's full name, "Eddie August Henry Schneider", and shows his sister was "Alice Paula Schneider".

Emil August Schneider (1886-1955) passport application for January 17, 1911

Emil August Schneider (1886-1955) passport application for January 17, 1911

• Name: Emil Schneider
• Birth Date: 15 Mar 1886
• Birth Place: Bielefeld, Germany
• Residence: New York, New York
• Passport Issue Date: 17 Jan 1911
• Passport Includes a Photo: N

Source: Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925 (M1490)

Fire in Asbury Park

Fire in Asbury Park

Twenty Families Burned Out

Asbury Park, New Jersey, August 12, 1900. Three Cottages Destroyed ... Emil Schneider ...

Source: The Sun; New York City, New York; August 13, 1900, Page 5. Note: This is not our Emil Schneider, he would have been just 15 years old. The fire our Emil went through was near Rumson around 1926 or 1927.

Emil A. Schneider buys 7708 Bergenline Avenue

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ... to Emil A. Schneider.

Source: New York Times; March 2, 1943, Tuesday

Forty Planes In Air Derby

Forty Planes In Air Derby

Half of Pilots in National Races Will Be Women, Is Report

Cleveland, August 13, 1931 (Associated Press) More than 40 high speed airplanes are to participate in the ... national sweepstakes ... derby of the national air races, August 23, officials of the race announced here last night. Nearly half of the pilots will be women.

Men's Division

Eddie A. Schneider, Jersey City, New Jersey

Source: Oakland Tribune; Oakland, California; August 13, 1931