Various important business enterprises profit by the administrative direction and the financial support of Julius Lederer, who is the secretary of the Bauman Rubber Company, president of the Federal Realty Company, president of the Dusto Company, owner of the Lederer Company, which is not incorporated, and a director of the Howe-Bauman Balloon Company. He has been a resident of New Haven since 1887, but is a native of New York city, his birth having occurred on the sixth floor of one of the big tenement houses in Columbia street on the 22d of February, 1858. His parents were Samuel and Marie (Ables) Lederer, natives of Bohemia, whose family numbered twelve children. Samuel Lederer came to this country in 1850 and settled in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he resided a short time but later located in New York City, where he was married in 1852, his wife having come to the United States in 1849. In 1861 the father took his family to Englishtown, New Jersey, and in 1865 a removal was made to the nearby town of New Brunswick, New Jersey. In the former place the father had a tannery and he had a contract to furnish leather knap-sack straps to the government during the Civil war. He was a very prominent Mason of high rank and it was he who made the first Masonic apron. He died when in his ninety-third year, surviving his wife a few years. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1902, at which time there were forty-two of their descendants present.

A public school pupil in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Julius Lederer afterward worked in a drug store, and for three years he was employed in a confectionery store, subsequent to which time he assisted his father in the tannery. He came to New Haven in 1887 and here bought out the fertilizer plant of W. H. Beecher & Company, of which he remained the owner until 1903, when he sold his business to the trust. Gradually he has acquired holdings in various other business enterprises until he owns stock in a number of important commercial and manufacturing concerns, to the success of which he contributes through his keen sagacity, sound judgment and unfaltering enterprise. The Bauman Rubber Company, of which he is secretary, the Federal Realty Company and the Dusto Company, of both of which he is president, the Lederer Company of which he is owner, and the Howe-Bauman Balloon Company, of which he is a director, all acknowledge the worth of his cooperation and have profited by his administrative direction.

In 1885, in New York city, Mr. Lederer was married to Miss Martha Fosner, a native of that city, and they now have four sons. David A., the eldest, is an expert salesman with the Baumann Rubber Company and is a member of the Governor's Foot Guard. He wedded Rose Berman and they have two children, Dorothy and Julius. Milton F. married Stella McGill, and they have one child, Bertha. Harold S., who is a graduate of Yale University and has pursued post graduate work, winning the Civil Engineer's degree, gave up a lucrative position in Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1917 to enter the United States service and is now connected with the Coast Artillery. Charles A. is the youngest and is the only son who was born and has reached his majority in the old homestead. Like the others he was educated in New Haven and he is now manager of Lederer & Company and also a member of the Governor's Foot Guard. The family is one of which the parents have every reason to be proud.

Mr. Lederer attends the Orange street synagogue and is an independent voter. He is interested, however, in the questions of the day and gives his support to all movements which he deems of vital worth to the community. He has made for himself a creditable position in business circles, and along the lines of his orderly progression has reached his present place, being now well known in real estate and manufacturing circles.