Photoessay #2843 - Adler's Cottage

I came across this post card in the early 20th cerntury postcard albums belonging to my grandmother.  I'm almost sure that this 'cottage' belonged to Max Adler and his family. Nice little beach cottage, don't you think?

Max Adler and Maier Zunder worked together on many projects.  Adler ran a successful corset manufacturing business and Zunder was a leading wholesale grocery merchant and bank president.  All through the last half of the 19th century, you can see them working together...Temple Mishkan Israel, B'nai B'rith, Harmonie Club, all kinds of community projects.  Often Adler's the president and Zunder's the treasuror.

So my big question.  Zunder has been a leading member of the Board of Education 1868-1889.  Very very respected.  He's running for re-election and who's running against him?  Max Adler!  What?  And it's a very rancorous nasty campaign on a trumped up issue of free text books.  Adler's slate wins ending Zunder's tenure.  Then a year or two later, he quits.  The Board offers the position to Zunder but he won't take it though he remains involved with the Board of Educations.

And he and Max Adler go back to doing stuff together with the Masons, Odd Fellows, Chamber of Commerce.

What the heck is up with that???  I did see one newspaper article where Adler claimed that Zunder was not a candidate but Zunder says he was  but Adler did not step aside.

I will figure it out sometime.

I discovered a dry goods business in Portland Maine that ran for some years in the 1860s.  Feuchtwanger & Zunder.  Feuchtwanger is not a very common name.  I knew that one of Maier's sisters marriede a Ernst Feuchtwanger.  Sure enough it's him.  But who's the Zunder?  Seligman, Maier's brother.  I never knew, crazy!