Walter Brooks Neiman

Notes:

Jan-1910 - A newspaper clipping (source unknown) reads: "Elaborate
Christmas Display 

"For Twenty Four Years Resident Has Added to Outfit 

"After twenty-four years of patience and ingenuity, Walter Neiman a well
known youth, has perfected one of the most beautiful Christmas displays
in this vicinity, and the public of this borough and surrounding suburbs
may view the same any evening at the young man's home, Second and DeKalb
streets, Bridgeport. 

"Each year the display has grown, until this year it is an elaborate
concern well worth viewing. The young man has worked upon the stpendous
decoration since his early childhood and the results of his efforts may
be readily seen when the eyes of those interested gaze upon the
magnificent exhibit of clever workmanship. 

"The display shows Fairmount Park, well modelled in a miniature form.
The lighting system is perfect, trains pass by the entrances, automobiles
and wagons of all descriptions are upon the boulevards, fountains hurl
water through the air, men traverse the narrow roads, a large water wheel
revolves slowly in a wide stream, besides many other attractions of no
less interesting nature. 

"It required eight weeks working every evening to erect the display and
trim a large Christmas tree, which stands beside it. The decoration
occupies half of a spacious parlor. To those who are interested in
displays of this nature, the young man extends a cordial invitation to
visit home any evening in the near future."

1930 Census: Listed are D.H., Laura, and Walter B. The Neiman's owned
their home, which was valued at $30,000. They had a radio.

Ruth Kolarik (his granddaughter) said that Daniel Neiman his wife, Laura
Lancaster's gravestones, were knocked down and disposed of by their son,
Walter Neiman. It is assumed that they are buried together with Daniel's
brother, Jacob, in the plot that they purchased jointly at Montgomery
Cemetery.

In 1947, after his mother's death, Walter Neiman married, sold the
Bridgeport property, and bought a 200-year-old house in Trappe PA, which
he turned into apartments. In 1960, Dorothy Neiman Swanson and Ruth
Neiman Kolarik, together with their husbands, bailed Walter out of his
marriage by paying Mabel, his wife, a sum of money and taking over the
Trappe property. It was sold in 1963. [source: Dorothy Neiman Swanson,
letter, 12 April 2003]