page_title: Alfred Baumgarten
section_title: New York
hierarchical_section_title: Alfred Baumgarten / New York
caption_attribution_description: English: Donners Park, Altona-Hamburg.
context_page_description: Baron Alfred Moritz Friedrich Baumgarten Ph.D. was co-founder and president of the St. Lawrence Sugar Refinery at Montreal; life governor of the Montreal General Hospital and Master of Foxhounds for the Montreal Hunt. His home in Montreal's Golden Square Mile is today home to the McGill Faculty Club.
context_section_description: Baumgarten came to New York City in 1866, with the intention of entering business life in connection with North American chemical works. He was for a time assistant in the laboratory of Professor Charles F. Chandler of the New York School of Mines. There he formed a partnership with C.W. Walter and established the Laurel Hill Chemical Works under the firm name of Walter & Baumgarten. The company later came to be known as the Nicholson Company, the largest acid works on the American continent. Baumgarten also held the position of manager of the Long Island Sugar refinery in New York.
caption: Donners Park, Altona, Hamburg. The seat of Mrs Martha (Donner) Baumgarten's family in Germany
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