Charles A. Stadler

Charles Albert Stadler (July 15, 1848 Germersheim, Kingdom of Bavaria – 1928 Florida) was an American politician from New York.

Life

He was the son of Gabriel Stadler (1811–c.1876) and Katharina Margarethe (Nett) Stadler (1808–1886). Gabriel Stadler was an inn-keeper in Germersheim, and took part in the failed

German Revolution of 1848. The family emigrated to the United States in 1851, and settled in New York City

where Gabriel became an engraver.

Charles attended the St. Nicholas Parochial School, other public schools, and

brewer and later engaged in the malting

business, building the largest malting company in the United States.

He was an Inspector of Public Schools from 1877 to 1879; and was a member of the New York State Senate (9th D.) from 1888 to 1891, sitting in the 111th, 112th, 113th and 114th New York State Legislatures. On June 21, 1888, he married Pauline Roesicke (born 1866).

In 1897, his malting business became part of the American Malting Company, and Stadler was President of the company from 1900 to 1916. In 1903, he proposed to deactivate the

right-of-way

of the canal bed to lay railroad tracks instead, and then ship freight (especially his grains and malts) by rail. Besides being faster than the canal boats, the rail transport would work all year round, while the canals were closed during the winter when the water froze to ice.

During his last years, he spent the winters at "Seminole Grove", an estate with an extensive game preserve and fruit orchards, near Fort Myers, Florida, and died there in May 1928.

Sources

The New York Red Book compiled by Edgar L. Murlin (published by James B. Lyon, Albany NY, 1897; pg. 403)
Fourth Annual Record of Assemblymen and Senators from the City of New York in the State Legislature published by the City Reform Club (1889; pg. 83f)
RAILWAY IN CANAL BED in NYT on March 18, 1903
A DAY'S WEDDINGS; SCHLOSSER—STADLER, his youngest daughter's wedding in NYT on November 8, 1906
C. A. STADLER, FORMER STATE SENATOR, DEAD; Retired New York Brewer Stricken at His Winter Home in Florida in NYT on May 4, 1928 (subscription required)
German Ancestry (1918; re-published 2003; pg. 210ff)

New York State Senate
Preceded by John J. Cullen	New York State Senate 9th District 1888–1891	Succeeded by Edward P. Hagan