The below information is from
Werner Erhard: The Transformation of a Man, The Founding of est (1978), by William Warren Bartley.
Siblings:Werner Erhard's sister
Joan Rosenberg was 5 years old in 1953, therefore birth year approximately 1948. (Bartley pp. 35, 52)
Cousins:In the early 1950s Werner Erhard's cousins, siblings
Norm Danoff and
Anita Danoff, lived in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (Bartley p. 37)
Uncle:Werner Erhard had an uncle named
Jim Clauson, brother of his mother Dorothy Selma Clauson Rosenberg. (Bartley p. 38)
Marriage:Werner Erhard, as Jack Rosenberg, married
Patricia Fry at her church, Trinity Evangelical and Reformed Church, on September 26, 1953. (Bartley p. 38)
Werner Erhard, as Jack Rosenberg, lived with Patricia Fry Rosenberg in 1953 on Washington Lane, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Bartley p. 40)
Clare Rosenberg - 1st child of Werner Erhard, daughter of Werner Erhard and Patricia Fry Rosenberg - was born March 13, 1954 in Philadelphia. (Bartley p. 40)
Lynn Rosenberg - 2nd child of Werner Erhard, daughter of Werner Erhard and Patricia Fry Rosenberg - was born in March 1955 in Pennsylvania while Werner Erhard and Patricia Fry Rosenberg were living with her parents in Norristown, Pennsylvania.
1958 - while working for Lincln Mercury business as car salesman, Werner Erhard, known at the time as Jack Rosenberg, used name
Jack Frost to sell cars. (Bartley pp. 42-43)
Summer 1958 - Werner Erhard, as Jack Rosenberg, and wife Patricia Fry Rosenberg, move to Riverton, New Jersey. (Bartley p. 46)
John Paul Rosenberg, Jr. - 3rd child of Werner Erhard, son of Werner Erhard and Patricia Fry Rosenberg - born in November 1958 while his paretns were living in Riverton, New Jersey. (Bartley p. 46)
January 1959 - Werner Erhard, as Jack Rosenberg, meets June Bryde in Philadelphia. (Bartley p. 46)
Spring 1959 - Werner Erhard, as Jack Rosenberg, arranges for his family to move to Hatboro, Pennsylvania -- so he can be closer to June Bryde who at the time was living with her parents in Philadelphia. (Bartley p. 46)
Summer 1959 - Dorothy Rosenberg, Werner Erhard's mother, gets bill from florist billed to Jack Frost for flowers for June Bryde. (Bartley pp. 47-48)
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"Then the strangest thing happened," Dorothy told me. "I got a bill from my florist. For flowers. I hadn't sent any, so I called them. They told me that Jack Frost had bought the flowers. I asked where they had gone. 'Well we thought it odd,' they replied, 'that Jack Frost sent flowers to June Bryde.' Both of them sounded like fictitious names. The florist gave me June Bryde's address." (Bartley pp. 47-48)
Deborah Rosenberg - also referred to in book as Debbie Rosenberg - 4th child of Werner Erhard, son of Werner Erhard and Patricia Fry Rosenberg - born December 25, 1959 at a hospital in Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. (Bartley p. 51)
Aunt:Kitty Clauson - aunt of Werner Erhard, wife of
James Clauson - interviewed by William Warren Bartley in 1978. (Bartley p. 51)
Departure of Jack Rosenberg:May 24, 1960 - Patricia Fry Rosenberg receives a phone call from the mother of June Bryde mother asking as to her whereabouts because she had left home and all her clothes and her suitcases were gone. After that, the brother of June Bryde came over to visit with Patricia Fry Rosenberg to talk to her. Later that day, the brother of June Bryde, and Patricia Fry Rosenberg, and Werner Erhard met together to talk about where June Bryde could be. (Bartley pp. 52-53)
May 25, 1960 - Werner Erhard, as Jack Rosenberg, leaves his family to be with
June Bryde. (Bartley pp. 52-53)
The above information is from
Werner Erhard: The Transformation of a Man, The Founding of est (1978), by William Warren Bartley.