FREDERICK T. ASCHMAN,
chemist, was born in Hudson City (now Jersey City Heights), N. J.,
September 26, 1858, and is a son of Frederick T. and Martha E. (Davis)
Aschman. The former was a native of Switzerland, who immigrated to New
York, where he met and married Martha E. Davis, of Ann Arbor, Mich., a
daughter of Gen. Martin Davis, one of the pioneers of Ann Arbor. Mr.
Aschman, Sr., was head of the silk importing house of F. T. Aschman
& Co., of New York, and died at Hudson City, September 4, 1867,
leaving four children, Frederick T. being the eldest of the family. On
his death-bed Mr. Aschman requested his wife to educate the children in
Europe, and in the spring of 1868 she crossed the Atlantic with her
family, and our subject spent eight years in the schools of France and
German Switzerland. He returned to New York in 1876 with the intention
of entering his father’s old firm. His mind, however, had a scientific
bent, and in the fall of 1877 he entered the School of Mines of
Columbia College, and graduated in May, 1881. In the meantime he had
made a trip to Europe, in 1880, where the balance of the family still
were. He worked in New York during the summer of 1881, and the
following autumn accepted the position of chemist for the Wheeler Iron
Company, at West Middlesex, Penn. In the spring of 1882 he made a
second trip to Europe, and there married Marie Zolikofer, of St. Gall,
Switzerland, and returned with his wife to West Middlesex, where she
died June 17, 1883. He remained in West Middlesex till the spring of
1884, when he came to Sharon and opened an office as general analytical
chemist, and has since done a large and successful business, being the
only general chemist in the Shenango Valley. Mr. Aschman was again
married, April 15, 1866, to Mary D., daughter of William C. Bell, one
of the pioneers of Sharon. A daughter; Dorothy B., is the issue of this
union. Mr. Aschman and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church of
Sharon, in which body he fills the office of deacon. He is a Republican
in politics, and belongs to the Masonic fraternity.
Source: History of Mercer County, 1888, page 704
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