Direct Family

Anna Woerishoffer       1850 - 1931

Our destinies were deeply influenced by my great-grandmother Anna Woerishoffer (youngest daughter of Anna Uhl) who decided on giving my father and two uncles an Austrian as opposed to American upbringing.  If I am not mistaken, she herself settled in Vienna and bought Brahmsplatz 6.  Mami used to tell me she was a very lonely and withdrawn lady.  Nonetheless her charitable contributions throughout her life were remarkable.

Anna W. lost her father when she was 2 years old and was a widow aged 36.  She never remarried and died in 1931, 45 years later.

Her first child was a son, Oswald., born on the 16th of July 1874 who died a week later on the 23rd.  The infant is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn with other members of the family.

Anna and Charles Fr. Woerishoffer had 2 daughters, Grandmother Antoinette (Nettie) born a year later and Emma Carola, 10 years later.

AW inherited from both her mother (in 1884) and her husband (in 1886.

Although it is commonly believed that the family fortune came from the NY Staats-Zeitung, that was not the case.  AW was one of six children and what she inherited from her mother was personal but not substantial.

AW's wealth came from her husband CFW.

The United States Trust Company of New York managed AW's estate.
Lewis Cass Ledyard, a senior partner of Carter Ledyard and counsel to the US Trust Co. of NY was Anna Woerishoffer’s lawyer and friend.

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Wiener Salonblatt Nr. 19 12. September 1931 Seite 6

At the age of 82, Mrs. Anna Woerishoffer, née Uhl, passed away on the 28th of last month in Bad Ragaz after a long suffering.

After the death of her daughter Countess Antoinette (Karl) Seilern in 1901, Mrs. Woerishoffer had taken her three sons into her care and represented them as mothers, so that counts Carl-Hugo, Oswald and Antoine Seilern suffered a heavy loss as a result of their death.

Count Antoine Seilern spent the last three months at her sick camp.

Count and Countess Carl-Hugo Seilern-Larisch and Count and Countess Oswald Seilern-Baworowska arrived for their grandmother's funeral.  The solemn consecration took place on 30 MAY in the English Church of Ragaz, whereupon, according to a last wish of the deceased, the transfer to America took place.

Uncle Antoine (17 Sept. 1901 – 6 July 1978) was 30 at the time his grandmother died.

AW died in Bad Ragaz.  Why?

She is buried in the Green Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn.    Lot no. 5903

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