Andrew Roderer

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Andrew Roderer

Source: History Morris County New Jersey, Volume II, Lewis Publishing Co., 1914

Another enterprising business man and representative citizen of Dover, Morris county, New Jersey, who was born in Germany, is Andrew RODERER. He is here most successfully engaged in business as general contractor. His birth occurred in March, 1849, and he came to America with his parents, Andrew and Margaret RODERER in 1851, at which time he was but two years old. The family located in Morris county and for several years father was employed in the mines here. Eventually he turned his attention to the work of stone mason and gained a reputation as one of the most skilled workmen in that line of enterprise in the county. His wife passed away in 1907. To them were born three sons:

Andrew, the immediate subject of this sketch;
John, a resident of Dover;
Joseph, who died in his eighth year.

Andrew RODERER attended the common schools of Morris county until he had reached his sixteenth year, when he began to learn the trade of stone mason under his father. Subsequently he studied stone, brick and cornice work all the departments of masonry and also learned the trade of plasterer. Thus he became equipped to carry on the work begun by his father and he now has a big and thriving establishment in Dover, employing a force of twenty five to forty men. He is the owner of four fine residences in this city, besides the home in which he himself resides, and he has a tract of twenty acres of land adjoining the city limits, which he has cleared and laid out into building lots, located on the south side of Dover. He is a Democrat in politics affecting the nation at large but in local affairs he votes for the man meeting with the approval of his judgment. For the past two years he has been president of the Dover board of sewage commissioners. He and his family are devout communicants of the Catholic church.

In 1872 Mr. RODERER married Rosana CANFIELD, a native of Ireland, daughter of Patrick and Rosana CANFIELD. There were six children in the CANFIELD family:

Thomas,
Eliz,
Anna,
Kate,
Rosana,
Nellie.

Mr. and Mrs. RODERER have had three sons, and one daughter:

Joseph and
William, both of whom are working for their father in Dover;
John, deceased;
Mary, deceased.

Mr. RODERER is sixty four years of age but is so active and cheerful that he doesn’t seem more than fifty. As a business man he exercised good judgment, is perfectly reliable in all his work and rarely fails to finish a job on time. He is known as one of the foremost citizens of Dover and as such commands the unalloyed confidence and esteem of all with whom he come in contact. He served for some years as director of the People’s Bank of Dover until the reorganization of the Trust Company when he withdrew.

Transcribed by E.J.Carlson.