Andy Roesch

Andy Roesch was born in Smithtown, New York in 1906, son of Main Street, Smithtown barbershop owner Andrew Roesch and his wife, Johanna Roesch. He died in 1977 and was a member of the first United States Speed Skating Team (1926) and was also a three-time National Champion, winner of the prestigious 1929 New York Silver Skates championship and was Pennsylvania State Champion. He died in 1977 in Newton, Massachusetts after suffering broken vertebrae in his summer home in Montauk, New York.