Two occupations
The 1934 directory lists H. Wendel Schubiger, wife Eleanor E., as a chauffeur and pugilist. Pugilist means boxer. The family identification is a strong working match, while parentage remains inherited.
Evidence:
A later checkpoint
The 1940 directory lists Wendell F., wife Eleanor M., as a chauffeur. Name, occupation and locality fit a probable continuation, but the differing initials are preserved.
Evidence:
A story still to find
No matched bout, ring name, championship or amateur/professional status has been established. The directory gives a promising question to take into newspapers and athletic records.
Evidence:
New: driving in 1932
The original 1932 Irvington directory lists Wendel (Elenor), chauffeur, at 426 Stuyvesant Avenue; Charles W. (Alice), salesman, shares the address. Henry (Mamie) is at 490 Nye Avenue. This strong working match moves Wendel’s occupational trail two years before the chauffeur-and-pugilist entry. The directory does not state the men’s kinship or when boxing began or ended.
Evidence: E153
An intermediate directory clue
The 1936 Irvington directory’s automated text places Wendell F. and Eleanor at 426 Stuyvesant, and Henry and Mamie in the ice trade at 136 Prospect. This is a useful intermediate lead between the visually read directory checkpoints; the original 1936 page still needs review. It supplies no named boxing bout, ring alias or exact career dates.
Evidence: E210
Sources & further reading
- RB.SCHUBIGER.DIR1934Price & Lee directory, 1934, p 780: H. Wendel, Eleanor E., Henry and Mamie Schubiger
Original city-directory PDF, selected page visually inspected
Open source - RB.SCHUBIGER.DIR1940Price & Lee 1940 Irvington directory, printed p 792
Contemporary directory, original page visually inspected
Open source - BECKER_GEDCOMGeni BloodTree export, 21 October 2026
User-provided Geni assertions; complete 372-person/135-family export preserved byte-for-byte in trees/robin.becker.ged; original source ZIP retained.
Retained family source - RB.WENDEL.DIR1932Wendel Schubiger · 1932 Irvington directory
Contemporary original directory, digitized PDF
1932 Irvington directory, printed page 769; PDF page 15, left column.
Open source - RB.WENDEL.DIR1936.OCR1936 Irvington directory: Schubiger OCR block
provider-extracted OCR of historical directory; original image not inspected
Part 14, Schubiger block immediately before printed 776 header; PDF leaf not verified
Open source