Volume III: Biographies

MELTZER, Abraham A.

Studio employee (1915-1916)

Thanhouser Career Synopsis: Abraham A. Meltzer worked at the Thanhouser studio intermittently circa 1915-1916.

Biographical Notes: Abraham A. Meltzer, an auto mechanic (and also an employee at his father's bakery) by trade, lived at 28 Hudson Street in New Rochelle. Around the 1915-1916 years he worked on an occasional basis at the Thanhouser studio. On May 15, 1915 Meltzer, who worked at the Blue Bird Garage in New Rochelle, went with James Cruze and Sidney Bracy as their mechanic on a coast-to-coast automobile trip. By that time Cruze and Bracy had left Thanhouser. In 1918 Meltzer was with the United States Navy.

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