Charles Pajewski

Submitted by Mike Miller

Charles Pajewski is the proprietor of the Southern Clay Furnace manufactory located at 531-535 Julia street, New Orleans, one of the most useful and enterprising institution, of the kind in the city or the South. He has built up a successful and paying trade, and produces a most excellent article of goods, which finds ready and extended sale. It is one of the oldest industries of the kind here and it is wholly du' to the push, intelligence and honesty of Mr. Pajewski that the trade has become so large and reputable. The well-known proprietor, Mr. Pajewski, was born in London England, in 1851, and when he was three years of age was brought to St.. Louis, Mo., by his father, Hypolite Pajewski. The father was a native of Warsaw, Russia, and was the youngest of sixteen sons. His father died at the extreme old age of one hundred and eight years, and his mother at the age of ninety years. Out of the sixteen sons of this remarkable family, eight of them fell in the revolution of 1848. Upon his arrival in this country Hypolite Pajewski first engaged in the millinery business in St. Louis, but after a time came to New Orleans and engaged in the manufacture of rushing goods of various unique, improved and attractive designs, and was thus engaged until the war came on to destroy his trade. Charles Pajewski, an he grew up, attended the city schools of New Orleans, receiving a good education, and while still quite young engaged in the manufacture of cigars.. By industry and good management he succeeded in accumulating considerable property, so that in 1873 he was enabled to purchase the" George Pandely," a schooner in the management of which his time was consumed until the vessel was sunk at the mouth of the old canal. In the meantime he had begun the manufacture of furnaces and stoneware, and since his vessel was sunk he has devoted all his attention to this business. He now has a large and profitable trade over the entire South, but particularly in Texas; and in this city and vicinity where he is prominent and where his products are known to be of the highest grade, his trade is very large and lucrative. He is influential in financial and commercial circles. Aside from his general business he has made side ventures sod is now a director of the Lewis Schwartz Machinery & Supply company and also a member of the H. Oertling Hardware Company. Mr. Pajewski merits the highest credit for his industrious and honest life. He started in life a poor boy with pluck, perseverance and honest purpose an his only capital, but now has a large property and a reputation above reproach. In 1873 he was united in marriage with Miss Kate Dei-le [misprint in book], a native of Staubach, Germany, by whom he had two children, both of whom are deceased. Mr. Pajeweki is a Knight Templar, a member of Indivisible Friends commandery, No 1, also a Knight of Pythias, a member of Eagle lodge No. 57. Until recently he also was a member of the Knights of Honor. He is one of the best business men of the city and one of its most useful and respected citizens.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 499. Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.