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Creator
Staubach, C. P. (Charles P.), 1870-1966
Call number
MssCol NYGB 18042
Physical description
1.2 linear feet (3 boxes)
Preferred Citation

Charles P. Staubach Family History Notebooks, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.

Repository
Manuscripts and Archives Division
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Charles P. Staubach (1870-1966) worked as a sales executive for the Burroughs Corporation, served as an officer in the 8th Infantry Regiment, New York National Guard, and was the first president of the Century Road Club Association. The Charles P. Staubach family history notebooks, compiled by Staubach from 1933-1955 and continued by his sons, 1966-1977, concern the history of his and his wife's families across multiple generations. The collection contains genealogical and biographical information on his parents, Baldwin Staubach and Elise Schwab, his wife Edith Arnold's parents, George Arnold and Frances Dubois, and numerous allied families. The notebooks also contain Staubach's memoir of his life and career, and serve as a scrapbook of family records including birth and death certificates, correspondence, pedigrees, photographs, clippings, maps, ephemera, and research notes.

Biographical/historical information

Charles P. Staubach (1870-1966) was a sales executive for the Burroughs Corporation who researched the history and genealogy of his family. He was born in 1870 in Fishkill, N.Y. and moved with his family to New York City in 1880. He worked in his family's iron foundry and machine business until it was liquidated in 1884, and graduated from City College in 1887. Staubach served as an officer in the 8th Infantry Regiment of the New York National Guard. An avid cyclist, Staubach was a founder and first president of the Century Road Club Association, a bicycle racing club based in New York City. He worked as a general sales manager for the Burroughs Corporation from 1906 until his retirement in 1929, serving branch offices in Hartford, CT and Newark, NJ. Staubach married Edith Arnold (1871-1945) in 1897 and the couple had three sons, Charles, Arnold, and Lodge, and a daughter Elsie. He died in 1966 at the age of 95.

Scope and arrangement

The Charles P. Staubach family history notebooks, compiled by Staubach from 1933-1955 and edited and augmented by his sons, 1966-1977, concern the history of his and his wife's family across multiple generations. The collection contains genealogical and biographical information on his parents, Baldwin Staubach and Elise Schwab, his wife Edith Arnold's parents, George Arnold and Frances Dubois, and numerous allied families. The notebooks also contain Staubach's memoir of his life and career, and serve as a scrapbook of family records including birth and death certificates, correspondence, pedigrees, photographs, clippings, maps, ephemera, and research notes.

Notable materials include Charles and Edith Staubach's marriage vow booklet, photographic portraits of Staubach as an award-winning cyclist, and a narrative account of his father Baldwin Staubach that traces his emigration in 1857 from Germany to the village of Fishkill in Dutchess County, N.Y., marking his ascent from a sewing machine salesman to the proprietor of a successful iron foundry and machine shop business in 1880. Other items of interest include pages from an 18th century family bible, sales catalogs from Baldwin Staubach's iron foundry and machine business, some correspondence and notes regarding the family burial plot in Tarrytown, N.Y., 1945-1963. Supplemental material added by Staubach's sons, 1966-1974 include obituaries of their father and related memorial materials. Originally found in a six notebook binders, the contents have been rehoused and boxed in their original order. Series and folder titles reflect the original volume titles and chapter headings.

The Charles P. Staubach family history notebooks are arranged in four series:

  • I. Charles P. Staubach and Edith Arnold Staubach
    10 folders

    This series includes genealogical notes concerning Charles P. Staubach and his wife Edith Arnold, their marriage vow booklet, correspondence, photographs, including portraits of Staubach as a cyclist, clippings, and research notes.

  • II. Baldwin Staubach and Elise Schwab Staubach
    9 folders

    This series contains genealogical notes concerning Charles Staubach's parents, Baldwin Staubach and Elise Schwab Staubach, photographs, contracts, sales catalogs from Baldwin Staubach's iron foundry and machine shop business, clippings, research notes, and ephemera.

  • III. George W. Arnold and Frances A. Dubois Arnold
    4 folders

    This series is comprised of genealogical notes concerning the parents of Staubach's wife Edith, George W. Arnold and Frances A. Dubois Arnold, photographs, clippings, maps, and research notes. Original family documents such as pages from a family bible (in box 2, folder 3) are also present in this series

  • IV. Allied families
    85 folders

    This series contains genealogical notes concerning the grandparents of Edith and Arnold Staubach, and allied families. Files are arranged alphabetically and include vital records, pedigrees, newspaper clippings, photographs coats of arms, maps, ephemera, and research notes.

Administrative information

Custodial history

Presented to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society by Arnold B. Staubach, 1978.

Source of acquisition

Gift of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2008.

Processing information

Processed by Cynthia Tobar.

Related Material

Burroughs Corporation Records, Charles P. Staubach Papers (CBI 90). Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (Collection contains correspondence, reprints, and photographs belonging to Charles Staubach, a salesman and manager for Burroughs Corporation). Staubach, Charles P. [Automobile photograph album.] 1925-1928. . Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, CT (Record of automobile tours, primarily through Sleepy Hollow, NY, Washington DC, Baltimore MD, Newark NJ, and Pine Orchard, CT. Family tours originating in Newark and Glen Ridge NJ. Quarto plain black ring binder album, 43 leaves, with approximately 1 to 2 images per side, and 1 typed index leaf. (Also 1 leaf manuscript itinerary of trip to Europe in 1927; images not in this album.) A number of images show the autos and their gear, rustic camp settings, bucolic Newark, a mini-golf course, shoreline resort. Each image precisely identified.). Charles P. Staubach world cruise collection, 1930. Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ (Consists of photographs and ephemera from the beginning part of Mr. and Mrs. Staubach's world cruise aboard the S.S. RESOLUTE of the Hamburg-American Line, which left New York City on January 6, 1930, crossing the Atlantic and visiting Madeira, Gibraltar, and the Mediterranean, including Athens, Greece).

Using the collection

Location

Manuscripts and Archives Division
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328