Goldfoot Genealogy

My father's uncle was Max Turn, originally Turshinsky of Równa, Lódzkie, Poland, who immigrated to the States in April 1903 with Nate at age 17 and later  married his Aunt Alice Jermulowski/e., half sister of his mother, Zlata Jermulowske.  I found on his living room table, a black and white photo of his great grandfather, a Talmud Scholar.  I was allowed to borrow it and use it as a model for my picture, above, that I did in oils.  

Max and Alice lived for many years in LaGrande, Oregon.  He finally was the owner of the Turn Furniture Store in LaGrande.  Max and Alice were perfect for each other.  Both were very short people, like my Bubba, Alice's sister.  Alice was what you call a balla-boostah, a perfect wife.  She always had goodies in the freezer to pull out and use in entertaining.  One time I dropped in late at night and she did that;  had cake and ice cream to serve.  She was always prepared.  I think they did a lot of entertaining in LaGrande. Max died in 1986 in Portland.  Alice died in 1990.  I had visited them at the Robinson Home in Portland, a retirement home which they had helped to start.  I remember that Alice called out to Max, thinking he was "upstairs."  She didn't realize he had passed away. 

          Alice and myself at the Robinson Home                             

She was 93 years 11 months and 25 days old when she passed away, outdoing my mother's life span.  Max had been 96 years 4 months and 20 days old when he passed away!  They were both doing something right! 

The Talmud was one of two created, the Palestinian one and the Babylonian one.  They both were the collection of the records of academic discussion and of judicial administration of Jewish Law in more than one country during many academics and in more than one country during several centuries after 200 CE.  In essence, you had to know your Tanakh (bible) pretty well in order to understand the discussions about it all.  It was the academic end of knowing the Tanakh.  He must have been very smart.  

No wonder when my mother, young brother and I were invited to Max and Alice's home for a seder during Passover.  I was a little girl, as I remember, maybe in 1950 then, and it was the longest seder I have ever had the pleasure of participating in.  Our great uncle Max read every word.  Nothing was left out.  I was too young then to be impressed, but I am now.  Wow!  He was good!  Where was my father-Max's direct relative?  Working as usual.  Our Jewish education was happening during that seder.  This is what happened to one Jewish man's family, how it was acclimated to living in a free society.  My father's father had been accidently killed in a horse and wagon accident when my father was 4, so he had been fatherless.  Uncle Max was trying to supplement his education this way since he didn't have a father figure.  

                                                                                                               David and Nadene Goldfoot             

Joel Verbin                                                                                                                             David Verbin

Also at the seder  was Alice and Max's daughter, Sylvia and her little boys, Joel and David Verbin who were about 10 years younger than me.  I can't remember if Abner from Nebraska, their father, was there or not, just the boys.  Joel went on and became the father of Daniel who I have contact with today.  He's also like me;  a writer.  He's been a reporter for a newspaper for many years and lives in Canada.  

I met Max and Alice's  other daughter, Annette one time, a beautiful lady and tall!  She married a doctor Sagall  and lived in Massachusetts.  I was so impressed with her.  She was like a model.  

I was  able to trace Max's family line to Shal "Saul " Turshinsky born about 1845 and his wife, Rebecca.  Their son, Samuel "Yiserol Leib" Turshinsky TURSZYNSKA" was born in Lodz, Poland in 1866.  He had married a well-known surnamed lady, Sussa Etta "Sarah" Yeta Packouz.  As it turns out, my father's insurance company for years was the Packouz Insurance Company.  Ah, he was keeping it in the family !  I never knew we were related!  

This is about one Jewish descendant from Poland and how his ancestors have spread out all over North America.  It's what happens so often.  My painting hangs in my living room, reminding me of my heritage.  Without it I'd feel deprived.  What brought Max to the States in 1903?  

 A considerable segment of the Polish peasantry abandoned the overburdened land. Millions of Poles emigrated to North America and other destinations, and millions more migrated to cities to form the new industrial labour force. 

These shifts stimulated fresh social tensions. Urban workers bore the full range of hardships associated with early capitalism, and the intensely nationalistic atmosphere of the day bred frictions between Poles and the other peoples remaining from the old heterogeneous Commonwealth of Two Nations. 

The movement of the former noble class into cities created a new urban professional class. However, the peasants that tried to move to the cities, found all the better positions already occupied by Jews and Germans. 

This contributed to the national tensions among the Poles, Germans, and Jews. At this time the Jewish population in Prussian Poland tended to identify with and want to belong to Germany, insofar as the latter, like the Jews themselves, had a more urbanized, cosmopolitan outlook. Another factor, not to be overlooked or underestimated is the traditional language spoken by the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, Yiddish, is also a Germanic language written in Hebrew characters, which afforded some natural compatibility with the German language dominated Austria-Hungarian and Prussian cultures.                       

Resource:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Poland_(1795%E2%80%931918)

Labels: genealogy my oil painting, Goldfoot, Packouz, Poland, Turshinsky, Verbin

# posted by Nadene Goldfoot @ 8:15 AM 0 comments

 Nadene Goldfoot                                       

Our name in Lithuania was Goldfus, and I found our relatives in Telsiai, Lithuania.  

Usually, Goldfus is the Yiddish spelling, and Goldfuss in the German spelling.  

I found the following in Rehovot רחובות, Israel.  Rehovot is a city in the Central District of Israel, about 20 kilometers south of Tel Aviv. In 2019 it had a population of 143,904.

Aryeh Goldfuss b: 1903  d: 28 November 1997.  age 90,parents-Chaim, and Elka

Yechiel Goldfuss  b: 1915  d: 28 November 1997  age 82, parents-Chaim, Hella (Elka, maybe ?) 

By chance, I have in my tree, the family:  

Descendants of Chaim Goldfus

1  Chaim Goldfus b: 1885 in Laukuva, Telsiai uesd, Kovno Gubernia, Lithuania-Russian Empire d: 1942 in WWII Holocaust Age at death: 57 est.

. +Elka Sacks b: Abt. 1885 in prob. Laukuva, Telsiai uesd, Kovno, Gubernia, Lithuania-Russia d: Abt. 1942 in WWII Holocaust m: 1903 in Laukuva, Telsiai uesd, Kovno gubernia Age at death: 57 est. m: 1903 in Laukuva, Telsiai uesd, Kovno gubernia

.. 2  Samuel Shmuel Moses Moshe Goldfus b: March 17, 1911 in Laukuva, Telsiai uesd, Kovno Gubenia, Lithuania-Russian Empire d: December 01, 2001 in Cape Town, South Africa Immigration: 1927 Cape Town, South Africa Age at death: 90

...... +Frieda Hotz b: January 28, 1921 in Klerksdorp, Orange Free State, South Africa d: November 05, 1977 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa m: Bet. March 17, 1943 - 1945 in Bothaville, Orange Free State, South Africa Age at death: 56 m: Bet. March 17, 1943 - 1945 in Bothaville, Orange Free State, South Africa

.. 2  Yechiel Goldfus b: Abt. 1912 in Laukuva, Telsiai uesd, Kovno Gubenia, Lithuania-Russian Empire d: in Rehovoth, Israel Immigration: 1934 Palestine

...... +Esther Armband

.. 2  Aryeh Leib Leon Goldfus b: 1913 in Laukuva, Telsiai uesd, Kovno Gubenia, Lithuania-Russian Empire d: in Rehovoth, Israel

...... +Gitta b: in Budapest, Hungary m: 1946 in Italy m: 1946 in Italy

.. 2  Etta Goldfus b: Abt. 1914 in Laukuva, Telsiai uesd, Kovno Gubenia, Lithuania-Russian Empire d: 1942 Age at death: 28 est.

.. 2  Benyamin Goldfus b: Abt. 1915 in Laukuva, Telsiai uesd, Kovno Gubenia, Lithuania-Russian Empire d: Abt. 1942 Age at death: 27 est.

.. 2  David Goldfus b: 1923 in Laukuva, Telsiai uesd, Kovno Gubenia, Lithuania-Russian Empire Immigration: Israel

...... +Esther b: Abt. 1923

Chaim Goldfus b: 1951Rehovot, Israel, married to Rochael Benziman,  and children-Yuval b: Jan 10, 1983; Tal Yechiel b: July  1989, and Gili b: abt. 1990.  They could be descendants. Chaim is the son of David Goldfus b: 1923 of Laukava,, Lithuania and David is the son of Chaim Goldfus b: 1885 d: 1942 in the Holocaust.  Chaim's wife was Elka.   

We do name using family names already deceased.  This could be a family connection, especially since both sets were from Rehovot, Israel.               

My father, Maurice Goldfoot's line has a direct line to Jonah "Iones" Goldfoot b: 1730 in Telsiai, Lithuania.  Evidently our surname was anglicized when our grandfather, Nathan Abraham Goldfus b: 1871, immigrated to England for a short spell, then moved onward to the states and our state of Oregon. 

The interesting fact to me is that I made aliyah  in 1980 but returned to Oregon at the very end of November 1985.  I lived in Haifa for a year and then settled down in Safed (Tzfat).  I was in Tel Aviv, but didn't get to Rehovot.  I did get to meet and know the famous Stanley Goldfoot of South Africa and Jerusalem, though, former chief of intelligence for the Stern Group before Israel's birth in 1948.  He was either a 2nd or 3rd cousin. I've also met and knew quite well our 2nd cousin, Ian Goldfoot of South Africa who moved to Houston, Texas and his sister, Denise, who is an email pen pal.                

How Rehovot is growing

Resource:

Jewishgen.org

Wikipedia, Rehovot

Labels: genealogy, Goldfoot, Goldfus, Rehovot Israel

# posted by Nadene Goldfoot @ 6:55 AM 0 comments

 Nadene Goldfoot                                           

My father's DNA shows us that his Y haplogroup is of QBZ67 a Q line of Jewish men.  Moses/Morris/Maurice Goldfoot was born in Portland, Oregon on July 1, 1908 to Nathan Abraham Goldfoot of Telsiai, Lithuania and Zlata Goldfoot nee Jermulowske of Lazdijai, Suwalki, Lithuania/Poland.

I'm going to take a look at two other Jewish men born at about the same time in Chicago and see what advantages they had in life.  

 Dad attended Failing Grade School and Commerce High School, having to quit after his junior year to work and help support his family, fatherless since 1912 when Nathan was killed in his horse and wagon accident.  Dad became a kosher butcher which led to having his own business of Lincoln Wholesale Meats to designing, owning and running his own business called Silver Falls Meat Packing Co. in Portland.  He died on July 23, 1967 at age 59.  He had a brother, Charlie, who moved to Grand Coulee, Washington with his wife and son sometime in the late 30s..  Portland only had the two families of Goldfoot left, Morris's mother with his sisters and his own new family. 

Portland's city college wasn't built until the 1950s as Portland State U. " We first opened in 1946 as the Vanport Extension Center for 220 students in Vanport, a city built to house wartime shipyard workers. After surviving a devastating flood in 1948, we moved three times before finding our permanent home in 1952 in the heart of downtown Portland, Oregon."  I was the first to enter it from our family in 1956.  I was able to take my 2 babes to Fruit and Flower Nursery School a few blocks away while I attended classes.   My dad had worked at the shipyards during WWII, keeping his own business going and working at his 2nd job at the shipyards as a boss of crew.                     

Dad's DNA shows that we match such people as the Rubensteins and the Oppenheim/Oppenheimers. They are all in the group of FTDNA of Halpern & Matches.   

Jews arrived in Chicago immediately after its 1833 incorporation.  The Ashkenazi were the first Jewish group settling in Chicago. In the late 1830s and early 1840s a group of German Jews came to Chicago. Most of them were from Bavaria.  On Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) 1845 the first Jewish religious service in Chicago was held. Many Jews peddled items on streets. They later opened small stores, which were the basis of several companies. In this time the Jewish community was constantly growing, and when the American Civil War began, the community itself recruited a company of 100 Jews to join the 82nd Regiment of Illinois Volunteers.

Originally the Jews lived in the Downtown area, but this changed after the Great Chicago Fire occurred in 1871. Many moved to lakeside communities such as Hyde Park, Kenwood, and South Shore.

By 1930, I find a Boris B. Rubenstein attending U. of Chicago and living in the dormitory on April 30, 1930 at the age of 22.  He was also born in 1908 but in Massachusetts.  His father was from Germany and mother was from Russia.  All eastern European countries were then labeled as Russia.  He was not working.  I found that Boris had become a doctor,  an Endocrinologist and died at age 67 in Chicago, Illinois in 1975.  CHICAGO, Jan. 1 (AP)—Dr. Boris B. Rubenstein, an endocrinologist noted for research on the relationship between ovarian hormones and human... I had found him on the 1940 census in Cleveland, Ohio, married to Dorothy with a daughter, and he was a doctor, a medical researcher.  

Then I found a Paul Rubenstein, my 4th cousin, living  near Portland, not too far from me.  We got together several times. That was a fantastic find;  We found that we had many of the same interests, such as our ancient history.  We had some weird coincidences, too, like having Hillsboro, Oregon as part of our history.  

In FTDNA, I have 81 Rubenstein matches including Paul.  Some are 3rd to 5th cousins, most are all 4th cousins.    

          Joseph Allen Hynek  (1910-1986) whose father was from Czechoslovakia.  J. Allen Hynek studied astronomy at the University of Chicago before joining the faculty at Ohio State University. He died at age 76.  

Both men were in the same dormitory at the same time as Joseph Allen Hynek who became a famous astronomer who is best known  for investigations of unidentified flying objects and efforts to promote "ufology" as a legitimate scientific pursuit..No, I have no DNA connection to any Hynek.   

In the same dormitory I also found Alexander Oppenheim, age 27, born in England in 1903.  Both his parents were from "Russia."  He was not working, either.   

Oppenheim was born on 4 February 1903 in Salford, England to an immigrant family from Lithuania. His first language was Yiddish. He grew up in Manchester and attended Manchester Grammar School, where he was recognised as a mathematical prodigy. His teachers considered him too young to attend university and delayed his entrance to scholarship competitions until 1921, when he received a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. In each of his three undergraduate years at the University of Oxford, Oppenheim was the Oxford University mathematical scholar. He also captained the university chess team.He graduated with first-class honours in 1924 and was the senior mathematical scholar in 1926.

He was awarded a Commonwealth Fellowship to study at Princeton University and the University of Chicago. He completed a PhD at the University of Chicago in 1930 under the supervision L.E. Dickson with a thesis titled Minima of Indefinite Quadratic Quaternary Forms. Oppenheim received a second doctorate, a DSc, from the University of Oxford in 1954 for his academic work later in his career.

Sir Alexander Oppenheim, (4 February 1903 – 13 December 1997) was a British mathematician and university administrator. In Diophantine approximation and the theory of quadratic forms, he proposed the Oppenheim conjecture. He was a professor of mathematics at the University of Malaya, the University of Singapore, and its predecessors. During the Second World War, he was a prisoner of war in the Changi Camp and helped organized a "POW University". After the war, he served as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya before holding two professorships in Ghana and Nigeria. He died at age 94 despite being held in a prisoner of war camp.  

I personally match 4 male Oppenheims that are all my 4th to remote cousins, and a female who is 3rd to 5th cousin and another female that is 4th cousin.  They are all on FTDNA. In all, I have 70 Oppenheim and Oppenheimers in FTDNA.  

OPPENHEIM, town in Germany. Jews are first mentioned there in the tax register of 1241, according to which they were obliged to pay the emperor an annual tax of 15 marks. The Jews of the town, legally the property of the emperor, were placed under the protection of the officers in charge of the local fortress, to whom they paid their taxes. They also paid a house tax to the archbishop of Mainz.The burden of their taxes appears to have caused several Jews of Oppenheim to join the group that fled from the Rhineland and, under the leadership of *Meir b. Baruch of Rothenburg, attempted to emigrate to Ereẓ Israel (1285). At the end of July 1349, during the persecutions that followed the *Black Death, most of the Jews of Oppenheim were murdered, while others chose martyrdom (*kiddush ha-Shem) and burned themselves to death in order to escape forced conversion at the hands of the mob.

Some time later the community was reestablished. After 1400 the right of residence was made renewable at the end of every six years, and the amount of taxes to be paid was fixed. In 1422 a plot by two Christians to kill the Jews of the town was frustrated by the municipal council. Certain protection fees and "gifts" that the Jews of Oppenheim were compelled to pay weighed upon them so heavily that despite the additional support of such communities as Worms, Mainz, and Frankfurt, Oppenheim Jewry could not meet their payments and were therefore penalized (1444). In 1456, R. Seligmann Bing (or R. Seligmann Oppenheim) attempted to establish a union of the communities of the Upper Rhine, but because of community opposition and that of R. Israel Isserlein (c. 1390–1460), the project was abandoned.

The community suffered during the wars of Louis XIV, and by 1674 only three families remained in the town. By 1722 the number had grown to eight. Many Oppenheim Jews settled in Frankfurt and other south German cities, where they were known as "Oppenheim" or "Oppenheimer," and the name became widespread. The community numbered 20 families in 1807; 257 in 1872; 189 in 1880; and 56 in 1933. Of the 17 Jews who remained during World War II, 16 were deported. In 1970 no Jews lived in Oppenheim. 

There were poor Jews and wealthy Jews who came to the USA who made an impact, even though we are only 0.02% of the population. Though our grandfather, Nathan died in his 40s, he left 4 children who produced 9 grandchildren, of which 2 are PhDs, 1 with a Master's degree and all were college graduates. with the great grandchildren doing well, too.  

ancestry.com April 30, 1930 census of U Chicago dormitory 

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/01/02/archives/dr-boris-b-rubenstein-endocrinologist-67-dies.html

https://goldfoot_genealogy.blogspot.com/2021/05/oppenheim-or-oppenheimer-connection.html

https://goldfoot_genealogy.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-gaon-of-vilna-connection-rubenstein.html

Labels: Goldfoot, Oppenheim, Rubenstein

# posted by Nadene Goldfoot @ 11:52 AM 0 comments

 Nadene Goldfoot                                             

                               

Nathan Abraham Goldfoot b: August 5, 1871 in Telsiai, Lithuania. 

Ann, Zlata and Ann's daughter, Harriett, 3 generations

Bubbie, my father, Maurice and myself 1934

She had such a rough life.  She never learned to read or write in Lazdijai, nor did she learn in Idaho or Oregon.  She continued to speak only Yiddish. She immigrated in 1900 at age 14, so young, but she still remembered so much about her Jewish customs and religion.  She may have been taken care of by her stepmother, who married Joshua in 1888 when she was 2 years old.  I've often wondered who Deborah was;  Esther's sister or another Jewish woman in Lazdijai.  The children of both women have been very close.    

Her mother, Esther (Essie) Decatsky died most likely in childbirth, or at least the same year that Zlata was born, January 11, 1886, the 4th and last child by Essie. Her older siblings were Bessie b: 1877, Jenny b: 1881 and Louis Jermulowske b: 1883.  

Her father, Joshua Charles "Hatzkel" Isaiahel Jermulowskie, born in 1850 in Lazdijai, remarried in about 1882 to Dora Leah "Deborah" Unknown. Their children were Lilly b: 1889, Charles b: 1895, and Alice in 1896.  I have found an Abram Owsej Ajzykowicz Jermulowske b:1898 who may have been a brother none of knew about, or maybe a cousin.  

Zlata married Nathan Abraham Goldfoot, original surname of Goldfus, of Telsiai, Lithuania. Her records were in Poland, however.   They met in Council, Idaho but had to marry in Boise, Idaho, and even at that it was a civil marriage with their names badly misspelled on the certificate.   One of Zlata's brother-in-laws had bought much land that turned out to be the center of Council, Idaho.   How they got to Council had to have been by train.  The Oregon side of the railroad was originally built by the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company from 1888 to 1890 from La Grande, Oregon to Elgin Oregon,   The Idaho side of the railroad started out as the Idaho northern railway which was built starting in 1900 from Nampa, Idaho to Emmett, Idaho.  

 Council to is on the highway to Lake McCall, a beautiful resort.  I hope they got to see it, somehow.  I've been there many times on TVCC teacher retreats and just for my own recreation.             

Zlata had been living in Cuprum, Idaho from 1903-1905 first while her sisters were in Council, Idaho.  It was a little mining town.   Zlata, age 17,  got a job in Cuprum washing dishes.  Cuprum (Latin for copper) Idaho was a mining town in the 1890's. The people of Cuprum petitioned the U.S. to become a town. President Taft  issued a patented land grant, granting the town site of Cuprum on April 23, 1909. The photo above is of four miners from Cuprum. The one sitting next to the dog is our Ancestor Great Great Great Uncle Joseph E. Salsbrey on the Jones side. He signed the Petition  Below to get the land grant for Cuprum to become a town. He owned two plots of land there . Note on back of photo said Arkansas Dump I was told that was the name of the mine they are standing in front of. Joseph is the Great Uncle of  Mildred, Orville, Mary and Alice Jones.

I did find a David Gersz Jermulowski Aronowicz born about 1800 in Poland.  and who died in 1868 in Szczuzyn, Lomza Gubernia, Bialystok Province, Poland.  I thought maybe he was the father of our Joshua.  

A Ryva Leia Unknown Iermulowski b: 1841 before Joshua could have been his sister, or married to a Jermulowske. She was born in from Virbalis, Vilkaviskis, a REFUGEE.  It's sad to realize that there were other battles going on way back in  these days and more refugees.    

 Council, Idaho was the new home for the immigrants, as the older sisters had married  the Criss brothers.  Bessie had married Samuel Criss and Jenny had married Harry Criss.  Three couples then evidently lived in Council.  I can just imagine the great Shabbats they had together.    

From Council, Idaho History site: Sam and Harry Criss were Jewish peddlers who came first to Council with packs.  Soon they brought packages or bundles of fabric, thread, needles, scissors, and similar items necessary to make dresses and suits.  About 1898 they settled in Council and opened a store.  Harry Criss moved to Weiser in 1913 and opened a store in the Weiser Hotel.  In 1915 Sam Criss's store burned and he opened in a temporary location, but he soon had a new store.  He married Bessie Jermuloski.  He died in 1933 and Mrs. Criss moved to Portland.  She died August 13, 1955, at Richmond, Virginia, but she is buried in Portland.  From Matilda Moser manuscript.  Adams County Leader, April 1, 1915,    

I found Harry, Jenny, and Sam on the Council, Washington, Idaho 1900 census, district 108.  He said he was born June 1869 and was 30 years old.  She was born in June 1881 and was 18 years old.  Sam was 35 born in Sept 1865.   Harry came over in 1889, Jenny in 1899, and Sam in 1877.  Harry had been in the states for 11 years, Jenny for one year, and Sam for 22 years.  Jenny was from Poland/Germany, and so were both her parents.  Harry was born in Poland/Germany, father born in Poland/Russia and mother Poland/Russia.  Sam was born in Germany, and parents Poland/Russia.  Harry was renting but Sam had 0 for owning.  Sam was single.   

 From Council, Idaho History site: Sam and Harry Criss were Jewish peddlers who came first to Council with packs.  Soon they brought packages or bundles of fabric, thread, needles, scissors, and similar items necessary to make dresses and suits.  About 1898 they settled in Council and opened a store. 

2/25/16  In the   book about Idaho in Council museum, LANDMARKS-A General History of The Council, Idaho Area by Dale Fisk, page 66:  Two traveling merchants named Abe Cohen and Sam Criss served the area.  They began coming to the Council Valley at least as early a 1894, selling clothing and dry goods.  Their weekly ads in the newspapers declared: 

COHEN 7 CRISS  the traveling merchants will sell you goods and strange to relate they DON'T WANT ANY CASH!  But prefer to take chickens, eggs, butter, hots, and such things, allowing the highest market price for everything, and they come right to your door and get the produce and deliver the goods.  

By 1898 Cohen and Criss had a store in Council.  Yes, another Jewish man was living in Council, a Cohen.  The two men were devout Jews and would close their store on Jewish holidays.  They were known as the "Jew peddlers" in their traveling days, and their store became known as the "Jew Store."  For most people there was no animosity behind these titles.   Sam had a store in 1898 and was in partners with an "Abe" Cohen in Council, Idaho.  

Weiser, Idaho, another town that the Criss brother lived in.  1893, Street in Weiser, "Idaho, Gem of the Mountains," by Herbert C. Gregg, offical souvenir of the World's Fair - archive.org

              Salubria, now listed as a Ghost Town in Idaho

  I did find an Emanuel Cohen on the 1900 13 June  census living in Salubria, Washington County, Idaho. Emanuel was born in 1863 in Poland/Russia and was a merchant, age 37 living alone, divorced.  I also found a Mauice/Manuel/Mauer Cohen on the 1900 -17 June census in Salubria b: March 1881 age 19.  He was born in England but parents were born in Poland (Russia) and he was a salesman.  He could be the oldest child of Emanuel Cohen living in his own place. Salubria was a little mining town not far from Council.  "The community of Salubria was established where the first wagon road entered the valley from the south..a little over a mile SE of the present site of Cambridge.  They had a post office in 1870.  The town started with the first store in 1885.   He immigrated in 1889, born in February 1863 in Poland and was 37 years old.  He was a merchant.  Could it be they had the wrong given name?   I just checked with the author and it is Emanuel B. Cohen and not Abe.  I found an Emanuel B. Cohen who died in August of 1959 in Broward, Florida.  He would have been 96 years old.  An Ida B. Cohen died January 1958 in Broward, Florida.  It must have been his wife.  I did not find Emanuel on any other censuses.  

        Northern Idaho 

I did find an Abraham Criss also on the 1900 census in Saluberia, Washington County, Idaho census.  Abraham Criss b: June 1852 Russia age 47 married 18 years "1872"; merchant, immigrated 1870  Flora was his wife and was 38 yrs old, born in 1862 (couldn't read)  and had 3 children.     

I found an Abraham Jarmulowske b: Oct 26, 1869 Germany arriving in NY on Oct 10, 1888.  Naturalized Dec 31, 1897, a merchant.  

I found a Sender Jarmulowske b; Russia, a banker, living at 223 Henry Street in New York, who was naturalized on April 21, 1880.  

I found a Harry Jermalowske marrying on 23 Oct 1892 in New York City, Rch (Rochester?)  

***I found a C Laorande Jermulowake, in 1853, LaGrande, Oregon-Yay!  Paydirt!  This is our Jermulowske.C for Charles, listed in the city directory with $415 besides his name. Charles was born: Serock, Poland "Zurok", Russia, Lazdijai, "Lastha" Suwalki, Russia/Poland/ Lithuania May 15, 1895.     

Sarah Criss b:  December 1861 Russia age 38; immigrated 1880

1. Harry Criss  b:June 1882 Texas  age 17; salesman

2. Jessie Criss b: September 1890 Idaho age 9

3. Hattie Criss b: November 1893 Idaho age 6 daughter

They were also on the 2 June 1880 census in Livingston, Polk County, Texas:

Abraham Criss b: 1854 Russia age 26 clerk in store

Sarah Criss age 19 clerk in store

They were boarders with Ferdinand Bishop and family.

Newspaper: Abe Criss of Cohen and Criss has gone to Portland and San Francisco to purchase ...

Abraham Criss died according to newspaper dated 3/22/1901.  He dropped dead in a Railroad car just as the train pulled into Weiser.  He had suffered from heart trouble for years.  

I also found a Flora Criss, widow, age 57 on the Brooklyn, Kings, N.Y. 1920 census from Poland/Russia speaking Yiddish living with her two sons, Harry age 35, foreman in shoe factory, and Jessie, age 29, clerk in a post office.   Sarah could have been Abraham's sister.  She was not with Flora and the two sons.

7/21/05  On death information of Idaho, Harry was born 5/20/1878 and d: 1/7/1933 in Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho. Here are sons. 

Front Street on right, 1910  

 

On the 1910 census of 265 Arthur St, Portland, Oregon, Nathan and Addie and 2 sons, Charlie 4 and Moshe 2 and 3 neighbors.  

Nathan Goofoot b:1872 38 and Addie,32,   junk peddler.  Son Charles was listed as a daughter, Emil age 4, and my father, correctly as Moses (on the birth certificate) age 2. (Both spoke only Yiddish) By 1920, Addie was listed as Ettie, a widow, in same house on Arthur St, age 40 with her 4 children.  Nearby at 681 2nd Street lived her sister-in-law, Dinah Jermulowske, listed as married to Louis and spent a lot of time in Weiser, Idaho as an animal hide dealer, Dinah was the cheeriest happy ready to dance lady, great fun.  Louis came over to this country on June 5, (10th according to Declaration of Intention) 1904.  This was district 3, Port 00, Reg no . A5834982 .  He came over while his sisters Bessie and Jenny were here already.  He joined them.  He went to Council, Idaho where they lived.  He married Dina in Portland in 1908, but by 1910 they were in Council with Ezra, age 1 yr 8 mo.  Ezra was born in Oregon. On the 1910 census Louis's name was transcribed as Lsanis.   Louis Jermolowske was a Council merchant... Council, Idaho, store at same time as Criss Bros who came in 1910, 1912.  

1. Zalek Rotstin b:1877 and Sarah, age 33, carpenter 

2. Morris Schnitzer b:1870 age 40 and Becky, junk dealer, by 1920, lived on SW First Street.  Wife was Bertha.  

3. Ben Weinstein b:1868 and Sophie, age 42, junk peddler

Reference:

https://goldfoot_genealogy.blogspot.com/2020/04/our-jermulowske-family-with-founder.html

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