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Tuesday, May 21, 2024 – FAMILIAR NAMES POP UP IN NEW JERSEY

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During a visit to the Roebling Museum on Sunday, the guide discussed the many generations of the Roebling family. Apparently, not every descendant was destined to lead the family business. Washington A. Roebling, a race car aficionado, ventured into race car manufacturing and driving. The guide also mentioned that a Roebling traveled to Europe with a member of the Blackwell family, Stephen Weart Blackwell, from Hopewell Junction, NJ. The majority of the Blackwells migrated from Astoria to the Trenton area, and here was one of them!

Both perished on the Titanic, but the chauffeur and car made it back to the U.S. on a later sailing.

THE ROEBLING-BLACKWELL

CONNECTION

Washington Augustus Roebling II in driver’s clothes.

The 1911 Mercer Raceabout, which took second in the hands of Washington Augustus Roebling II at the 1911 International Light Cars Race.

CREDITS:

ROEBLING MUSEUM

JUDITH BERDY

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