Background
He was born in 1836 at Herford, Westphalia, Germany, and immigrated in 1856 with his three brothers: Henry, Richard, and Gustav.
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Frederick Schwarz
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Career
He worked for a Baltimore stationery importer. German exporters sometimes packed toys and other items in with the stationery in the hope of expanding their exports. Schwarz put the toys in the store window, and they outsold the stationery.
By 1862 he had switched to selling the toys from his own shop, and in 1870 he moved his business to Manhattan.
Frederick August Otto Schwarz died on May 17, 1911. Schwarz is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Germany