Frank Herbst - Artist Info

About Frank Herbst

  • Biography

    Frank C. Herbst was born in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, on October 10, 1890, a son of Ignatz Herbst and Amelia Heitlinger. The 1900 Federal population census indicates that the family then lived at 152 Lafayette Street in Ward 5 of Newark in a household headed by Amelia’s father Matthew Heitlinger, age 69.

    A native of Germany, he had became a United States citizen in 1853. The house was located in Newark’s Ironbound District, a block from the elevated mainline tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Other members of the household included daughter Amelia Herbst, born in New Jersey in August 1859; son-in-law Ignatz Herbst, age 50, who had been born in Germany but who became a U. S. citizen in 1870, and who was employed as a s...

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