Seventh Generation

259. Living (private).

Harold Irving MOSINGER²⁰², son of Gus Gideon MOSINGER and Selma Birdie FLEISCHER, was born on 20 September 1923 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Harold was born on Yom Kippur. Gus took cigars to services and passed them out! Gus Mosinger was good friends with Muggs Lorber who owned Camp Nebagamon. That is why Harold was allowed to attend at age six when his mother had bunion surgery. (From Camp Nebagamon history, 1929 was the first year it was open.) He resided at 5752 Westminister in St. Louis, Missouri, USA . He resided (one block south of Delmar) at 6665 Washington Avenue in University City, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA . Harold resided at 7530 Oxford Drive in Clayton, St Louis County, Missouri, USA . He resided at 7515 Wellington Way in Clayton, St Louis County, Missouri, USA . He was a salesman and president of Mosinger Cohn shoe joblotters at 1235 Washington Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Harold resided at 344 Summerdale in Olivette, St. Louis County, Missouri, United States from 1951 to 1958. He had a DNA test performed on 2 May 2006. He tested positive for a Cohen Match. He had a DNA test performed on 15 July 2012. Harold died on 9 January 2015 at the age of 91 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. 19 Tevet 5775 Shirley Mosinger's notes from dinner with the grandchildren about September 2018. She talked about Harold's life.

Pilots license at age 15
Took the bus to Scott Field in East St. Louis
Went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Graduated [high school?] in absentia
During WWII, about 1943, Harold was in the Navy and served on a minesweeper on the New Jersey coast.
Earned a degree in mechanical engineering
Worked at White Rogers Electric in St. Louis before going into the shoe business
When worked in the shoe business, drove to small towns in Missouri with a sample case to sell shoes.
Owned several pin ball machines in various locations around St. Louis, used to work the route - collecting money and keeping the machines working
After Harold and Shirley were married, he worked with teenagers in North St. Louis who had been arrested for stealing hubcaps. If they attended club meetings at YMCA, they would not go to reform school. Harold was a counselor.
He was a camp councilor at Hawthorne, which became Camp Sabra.
Harold boxed at summer camp. [note from Peggy: Is this why Alison Hammer's grandfather called him "Guts"?]
Harold surveyed the lot at 14 Sackston Woods so that the architect could see that the house [designed for another lot] would fit in Sackston Woods.

Living and Harold Irving MOSINGER had the following children: