EDWARD E. FENSTERMACHER, son of Levi, proprietor of the Columbia hotel and restaurant, Tenth and Hamilton streets, Allentown, was born where he has always lived, and now owns, May 18, 1865. He was educated in the Allentown high school. He became a partner with his father under the firm name of L. Fenstermacher & Co., commission merchants of green groceries, at 18-20-22 North Tenth Street. They were in business about ten years. In 1894 Mr. Fenstermacher obtained a license for what is known as the Columbia hotel and restaurant. The hotel has twenty-eight rooms, and in the successful conduct of his business he employs fifteen people.

On Jan. 17, 1900, Mr. Fenstermacher was united in marriage with Ella L. Wotring, daughter of Edwin and Rosa (Guth) Waring, who lives at the Sand Spring in North Whitehall township, and hails from a long-settled French Huguenot family, whose full early history appears in this volume.


Mr. and Mrs. Fenstermacher have no children. They are members of the Reformed Church. Mr. Fenstermacher has membership in the following lodges: B. P. O. E., No. 130; F.O.E., No. 110; and K. G. E., all of Allentown.