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Robert Cooper Jacobs

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Paula Glotzer

Paula Glotzer Jacobs: 1928 and 1963

1928: Anthropology field trip, Patzenarco, Mexico; 1963: Coffee at Wayne Avenue

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Biographical Details

	Married	Paula Glotzer was also known as Paula Jacobs.
1908	Birth	She was born on 3 March 1908 in Pinsk, Belarus. Although Aunt Hannah's typescript says 3 March 1909, the Social Security Administration thinks it was 1908; according to her daughter Nancy, the family knows that her birth was in 1908.1,2
1915	Death of Parent	Her mother, Chinka Kuperman, died on 7 December 1915 in Pinsk, Belarus.
1920	Immigration	Paula Glotzer migrated to Ellis Island from Pinsk on 15 July 1920 She and her sisters — Adele, Faigl, and Raisel — sailed from Antwerp on July 5 aboard the SS Lapland. They arrived at Ellis Island after a ten-day passage.3
	Residence	She lived at 76 Highland Avenue in Yonkers, New York from 22 July 1920 to 1927. She had been taken in by Aunt Ida and Uncle Morris on her arrival in the United States.4,5
	Residence	She lived at 76 Highland Avenue in Yonkers, New York from 22 July 1920 to 1927.4,6
1924	Graduation	She graduated from Yonkers High School in Yonkers, New York, in 1924 with an academic diploma.4
	Occupation	From 1926 to 1927 Paula Glotzer was a typist and proofreader at Boni & Liveright in New York City. Horace Liveright was the first important Jewish publisher of trade books; the firm invented the Modern Library, which was later sold to Bennett Cerf and became part of Random House. Their list included Faulkner, Hemingway, Freud, and many others less well-known. Mother met several of them.4
1928	Occupation	In 1928 Paula Glotzer was a secretary at Fisk University in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee.4
	Residence	She lived at 913 18th Avenue North in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee from 1928 to 1929. The 1929 city directory listed her as a teacher.7
1930	Education	She studied at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois in 1930.8,4
1930	Residence	She lived at 5852 Ellis Avenue in Chicago, Illinois on 16 April 1930.8
	Occupation	From 1930 to 1938 Paula Glotzer was a secretary to Franz Boas, Columbia University Anthropology Department in New York City.4
1931	Marr-Partners	She was a guest at the marriage of Benjamin Glotzer and Frieda Weiner on 13 December 1931 at the Broadway Central Hotel in New York City.9
1931	Marr-Partners	Paula Glotzer became the partner of Max Jacobs on 7 May 1931 in New York City when she was 24y and he was 28y. [[ Relationship: partner ]] His diary entry for this day says, "Paula and I moved to our new apartment." For some months before that they had visited most of her New York relatives. Together until his death, they never formally married. In keeping with the custom of the time, she took Jacobs as her surname.4,10
1935	Residence (family)	Max Jacobs and she lived at 251 West 102 Street in New York City in 1935. The Columbia University directory of students for 1934-1935 listed her as an extension student.11
1936	Residence (family)	Max Jacobs and she lived at 304 West 107th Street in New York in February 1936.12
1938	Residence (family)	Max Jacobs and she lived in New York City in 1938. they sublet Margaret Mead's apartment on Claremont Avenue. Robert Jacobs, the famous political scientist and left-handed target shooter, was conceived there.4
1940	Residence	She lived at the farm on Lakewood Road in Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey on 12 April 1940. Max Jacobs was in the sanitarium, down with tuberculosis.13
1941	Death of Parent	Her father, Chonya Glotzer, died in 1941 in Pinsk, Belarus.
From 1941	Residence (family)	Max Jacobs and she lived at 95 Winthrop Avenue in Albany, Albany County, New York from 3 June 1941. They were already in Albany when Nancy was born on June 22, 1942. By February 1944, the family had moved to Syracuse. In August 1944 they settled in the apartment at 3388 Wayne Avenue in the Bronx which was to be the family home for thirty-five years.14
1944	Residence (family)	Max Jacobs and she lived in Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York with their children on 9 February 1944.15
	Residence	She lived at 3388 Wayne Avenue, Apt. A32, in the Bronx from 1944 to 1979.4,16
	Residence (family)	Max Jacobs and she lived with their children at 3388 Wayne Avenue, Apt. A32, in the Bronx from 1944 to 1958. Robert and Nancy thought of this apartment as their childhood home.4
1945	Anecdote	In November 1945 it was discovered that the Garfinkiels had survived the war by hiding out at Lyon in Vichy France. The American Glotzers rejoiced and rallied round. Paula Jacobs wrote this letter, visible on our web site, which was typical of the communications that flew across the Atlantic.The two Paula Glotzers were reunited in France in August, 1961.
1949	Occupation	In 1949 Paula Glotzer was a secretary at the Israeli Consulate in New York City.17
1950	Residence (family)	Max Jacobs and she lived at 3388 Wayne Avenue, Apt. A32, in the Bronx on 12 April 1950.18
	Occupation	From 1952 to 1979 Paula Glotzer was a medical secretary in the Neurology Department of Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx.4
1957	Note	The Jacobs family took a four-day trip through Albany to Niagara Falls and back in 1957.4
1957	Travel (fam)	Max Jacobs and she traveled to Niagara Falls, New York, from 26 September 1957 to 30 September 1957. This wonderful four-day family expedition was carried along in a big, heavy 1948 Pontiac. There were stops in Albany, to see a former residence, Corning, to see the glass works, the Delaware Water Gap and, of course, the falls at Niagara.
1958	Death	She was widowed by the death of Max Jacobs on 27 February 1958 at 3388 Wayne Avenue, Apt. A32, in the Bronx.4,19
1977	Note	Presentation: In the spring of 1977 Paula gave a well-received talk on Franz Boas to the Anthropology Department at Central Washington University. The occasion had been suggested and arranged by Bob Goedecke of the Philosophy Department.4
1979	Retirement	In June 1979 Paula Glotzer retired in the Bronx.20
About 1979	Residence	She lived at 585 West End Avenue in New York City about October 1979. This had been Nancy and Bob's old apartment.21
1990	Residence	She moved to Medford Leas in Medford, Burlington County, New Jersey in November 1990. She had given up her apartment on West End Avenue. Medford Leas is a Quaker-sponsored retirement community in New Jersey. She lived there for the rest of her life.22
2000	Death	She died on 4 August 2000 at Medford Leas in Medford Township, at age 92y.4
About 2000	Cremation	She was cremated about 5 August 2000 in Philadelphia. Her ashes were interred with Dad's in M-3, Niche Arcade Alcove 2, Niche 26 at Ferncliff Cemetery in Ardsley, NY.4

Citations

1. Social Security Death Index, U.S., Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
2. Hannah Cooper Guterman, Hannah Guterman's typescript memoir (1986), n.p.
3. Passenger Manifest, SS Lapland, 15 July 1920 (Pesca Glocer et al)
4. Personal knowledge of Robert Jacobs
5. City Directory, p. 321, Yonkers City Directory (R.L. Polk & Co.)
6. City Directory, p. 451, Yonkers City Directory (R.L. Polk & Co.), Date: 1926
7. City Directory, R.L. Polk Nashville, 1929, page 518
8. 1930 Fed'l Census
9. Marriage Certificate, Manhattan Cert.#67, 13 Dec. 1931 [found in 1932 records]
10. Personal Interview, Nancy -- 7/23/2008
11. Columbia University, Columbia University Catalogue, Various Internet Services, 1934-35 ed., p. 161.
12. College Records, Max Jacobs' Columbia University Transcript, n.d.
13. 1940 Federal Census, Record originated in..., Dover Township, Ocean County, NJ, ED, Date: 12 APR 1940
14. Letter, Paula Jacobs to Adele Grantz, 3 June 1941
15. Shalmuk_2015, N.p.: n.p., 2015, Paula Glotzer
16. E-mail message, Nancy Greenberg to RCJ, 3/6/2009
17. Personal Interview, Nancy Jacobs and RCJ, 27 November 2010
18. 1950 Fed'l Census, Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: New York, Bronx, New York; Roll: 6173; Sheet Number: 1; Enumeration District: 3-1981B
19. Obituary in New York Times, p. 13, New York Times Company, New York City, 28 Feb 1958, RCJ books and files.
20. A.l.s., Mollie Edson to Paula Jacobs, 2 July 1979
21. Telephone Interview, Nancy Jacobs & RCJ, 12 Oct. 2010
22. E-mail message, Nancy Greenberg to RCJ, 5 March 2011, It was November 1990.

Max Jacobs

Max Jacobs: 1930 and 1957

1930: Rooftop; 1957: Composing Chess Problems in the Bronx

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Biographical Details

1904	Birth	Max Jacobs was born on 17 April 1904 in Łódź, Poland.1
1942	Physical Description	He was five feet, eight inches tall, with brown hair, in 1942 when he registered for the draft in Albany, New York, at age 38y. In 1948, during the family's vacation on Martha's Vineyard, he grew a beard which came in red. In his youth he had been an excellent soccer player — center forward at City College — and a fine tennis player as well. He tried, albeit in vain, to teach his son Robert how to hit a decent backhand.2
	Nickname	His nickname was Mac.
1906	Immigration	He migrated in Ellis Island from Hamburg on 24 April 1906 Together with his mother and his older sister Frances, he sailed aboard the SS Batavia. His name seems to be recorded as "Merire" Jacobs on Batavia's manifest. His name looks like "Maxim" in the Hamburg port entry index. Bad record-keeping handwriting at both ends of the journey!3,4
1910	Residence (family)	Frances ("Fanny") Jacobs, he, and Sonya Jacobs lived with Solomon Jacobs and Zelda Leber at 228 East Eighth Street in New York, New York on 7 April 1910. The Jacobs family moved around a lot as they became more prosperous. On April 7, 1910 they were at 228 East Eighth Street. In 1912 they were found at 380 East Eighth Street. In 1916 they were able to jump to the Bronx, first at 1348 Wilkins Avenue and then, by 1920, to 1440 Minford Place.5
1915	Residence (family)	Frances ("Fanny") Jacobs, Max Jacobs, and Sonya Jacobs lived with Solomon Jacobs and Zelda Leber at 1348 Wilkins Avenue in the Bronx on 1 June 1915.6
About 1918	Illness	Max Jacobs suffered from an unknown illness, about 1918. Paul Scherer reports that his mother, Sonya Jacobs, said that Max was seriously ill during his boyhood, either with scarlet fever or the 1918 influenza.7
1918	Residence	He lived at R.F.D. 1 in Rockville, Tolland County, Connecticut on 12 September 1918. Max lived on the Connecticut farm, but hated the year of country life.8,3
1918	School attendance	He attended Rockville High School in 1918 in Rockville, Tolland County, Connecticut.9
	School attendance	He attended Morris High School from 1918 to 1921 in the Bronx.9
1920	Residence (family)	Frances ("Fanny") Jacobs, he, and Sonya Jacobs lived with Solomon Jacobs and Zelda Leber at 1440 Minford Place in the Bronx on 16 January 1920.10
	Education	Max Jacobs studied at City College in New York City from September 1921 to December 1922.9
1923	Naturalization (fam)	He, Frances ("Fanny") Jacobs, and Sonya Jacobs were naturalized as part of the family of Solomon Jacobs and Zelda Leber at the Bronx County Supreme Court on 25 May 1923.
	Occupation	Between 1927 and 1928 Max Jacobs was a surveyor; he helped lay out White Plains, NY, which was then mostly farmland in White Plains, Westchester County, New York.2,11
1928	Travel	He traveled to Europe from Europe, visiting France, Germany, Austria and Poland in 1928 He returned aboard the SS Paris from Le Havre. The trip included a family visit to his grandfather in Piotrków.12
1928	Residence	He lived at 1220 Shakespeare Avenue in the Bronx on 16 December 1928.12
About 1930	Anecdote	. Max loved to laugh out loud & often did so without restraint. He especially loved the Marx Brothers. Sometime in the 1930s his sister Frances with some friends went to see a Marx Brothers film in New York. They had orchestra seats. During the film someone in the mezzanine or balcony was whooping with laughter. After a moment or two, Frances turned to her friends and said, “that’s my brother.” It was, of course.13
1930	Residence (family)	As adult children, Frances ("Fanny") Jacobs, Max Jacobs, and Sonya Jacobs lived with Solomon Jacobs and Zelda Leber at 1529 Shakespeare Avenue in the Bronx on 2 April 1930. In addition to the three adult children, the apartment held their son-in-law Harry Leber and Boris Leber, their grandchild.14
1931	Marr-Partners	Max Jacobs was a guest at the marriage of Benjamin Glotzer and Frieda Weiner on 13 December 1931 at the Broadway Central Hotel in New York City.15
1931	Marr-Partners	Max Jacobs became the partner of Paula Glotzer on 7 May 1931 in New York City when he was 28y and she was 24y. [[ Relationship: partner ]] His diary entry for this day says, "Paula and I moved to our new apartment." For some months before that they had visited most of her New York relatives. Together until his death, they never formally married. In keeping with the custom of the time, she took Jacobs as her surname.2,16
	Education	He studied mathematics at City College in New York City from February 1934 to 1936. He graduated on February 1, 1936 with a B.S. in Mathematics.17
1935	Residence (family)	He and Paula Glotzer lived at 251 West 102 Street in New York City in 1935. The Columbia University directory of students for 1934-1935 listed her as an extension student.18
1936	Residence (family)	He and Paula Glotzer lived at 304 West 107th Street in New York in February 1936.19
	Occupation	From 1936 to 1940 Max Jacobs was a statistical research assistant for Franz Boas at Columbia University in New York City.20
	Education	He studied mathematics at the Graduate Faculties of Columbia University in New York City from February 1936 to June 1938.21
1938	Residence (family)	He and Paula Glotzer lived in New York City in 1938. they sublet Margaret Mead's apartment on Claremont Avenue. Robert Jacobs, the famous political scientist and left-handed target shooter, was conceived there.2
1938	Illness	He suffered from tuberculosis in 1938 in Bedford Hills, Westchester County, New York. He spent nearly a year at the sanitarium at Bedford Hills, New York; during this period Paula and Robert, their infant, son lived on the farm.2
1939	Death of Parent	His mother, Zelda Leber, died on 4 June 1939 in Lakewood, Ocean County, New Jersey.
	Occupation	From 1940 to 1943 Max Jacobs was an assistant statistician for the N.Y. State Dep't of Social Welfare in Albany, Albany County, New York, at age 36y.20
From 1941	Residence (family)	He and Paula Glotzer lived at 95 Winthrop Avenue in Albany, Albany County, New York from 3 June 1941. They were already in Albany when Nancy was born on June 22, 1942. By February 1944, the family had moved to Syracuse. In August 1944 they settled in the apartment at 3388 Wayne Avenue in the Bronx which was to be the family home for thirty-five years.22
1942	Draft Registration	He registered for the draft on 14 February 1942 in Albany.23
1942	Occupation	On 14 February 1942 Max Jacobs was working in the Bureau of Rationing at Department of Social Welfare in Albany, Albany County, New York.
1942	Death of Parent	His father, Solomon Jacobs, died on 11 May 1942 in Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey.
	Occupation	From 1943 to 1944 Max Jacobs was a labor market analyst and assistant area director at the War Manpower Commission in Syracuse, New York.20
	Occupation	From 1944 to 1946 Max Jacobs was a senior statistician and labor market analyst. with the the U.S. Employment Service in New York City.20
1944	Residence (family)	He and Paula Glotzer lived in Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York with their children on 9 February 1944.24
	Residence (family)	He and Paula Glotzer lived with their children at 3388 Wayne Avenue, Apt. A32, in the Bronx from 1944 to 1958. Robert and Nancy thought of this apartment as their childhood home.2
1946	Occupation	In July 1946 Max Jacobs was a statistician and economist in the U.S. Employment Service as Chief of Reports and Analysis for New York State. in New York City. Sometime after the war his unit was transferred to the New York State Department of Labor. When he died in 1958 he was the director of its labor analysis program.20
	Note	Max was a notable tournament chess player. At one time he had been the Junior Champion of the Marshall Chess Club in New York. He was one of the only two players (of fifteen) who defeated the principal player at a simultaneoius exhibition at the Mahnattan Chess Club in 1923. He was one of the entertainers at a club banquet sometimes in the early 1920s. After his 1939 illness his interest in chess was channeled into composing and solving both conventional and fairy chess problems. Many his puzzles were published. His collection of fairy chess problem books was the largest in the United States except for that at the Cleveland Public Library. In accord with his wishes, the collection was donated to the Jewish National & University Library in Jerusalem after his death. He was also quite a good bridge player and had won a few master points playing in duplicate tournaments.2
1950	Residence (family)	He and Paula Glotzer lived at 3388 Wayne Avenue, Apt. A32, in the Bronx on 12 April 1950.25
1952	Note	In February 1952 Max vacationed in Florida.2
1954	Note	In July 1954 he took a vacation trip to Mexico with his friends Sidney Mandel and Nig Eidenberg. During the course of this journey he visited his cousin, Maxim Lieber, in Mexico City.2,26
1957	Travel (fam)	He and Paula Glotzer traveled to Niagara Falls, New York, from 26 September 1957 to 30 September 1957. This wonderful four-day family expedition was carried along in a big, heavy 1948 Pontiac. There were stops in Albany, to see a former residence, Corning, to see the glass works, the Delaware Water Gap and, of course, the falls at Niagara.
1958	Death	He died of a heart attack on 27 February 1958 at 3388 Wayne Avenue, Apt. A32, in the Bronx at the age of 53y. Coronary artery disease is the family curse.2,27
1958	Cremation	He was cremated on 1 March 1958 at Ferncliff Cemetery in Ardsley. His ashes are in M-3, Niche Arcade Alcove 2, Niche 26.2
2000	Death of Spouse	His wife, Paula Glotzer, died on 4 August 2000 in Medford Township, New Jersey.

Citations

1. Passport, U.S. No. 598589 issued June 19, 1928 at Washington, D.C.
2. Personal knowledge of Robert Jacobs
3. Sonya Jacobs Scherer to Robert Jacobs. April 8, 1974 5 Monticello Ave., Trenton, NJ.
4. Passenger Manifest, SS Batavia, 24 Apr 1906; "Merire Jacobs"
5. 1910 Federal Census, New York, New York, population schedule, Manhattan, Enumeration District 0257, sheet 15A, dwelling 14, family 228, National Archives micropublication T624-1012 (Solomon Jacobs household).
6. 1915 New York State Census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1915; Election District: 35; Assembly District: 34; City: New York; County: Bronx; Page: 59
7. Personal Interview, Paul Scherer & RCJ, 15 Jun 2010, This took place during the cousins' reunion at Eric's house in Kelseyville, CA
8. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, Solomon Jacobs
9. College Records, C.C.N.Y.
10. 1920 Federal Census
11. Passport, U.S. Passport #598589
12. Passenger Manifest, SS Paris arr NYC from Le Havre, 16 Dec, 1928
13. Personal knowledge of Robert Jacobs, An oft-told family story
14. 1930 Fed'l Census, Bronx County, New York, Bronx, page 1A, National Archives micropublication T626-1468 (Solomon Jacobs household; name rendered as "Salomon").
15. Marriage Certificate, Manhattan Cert.#67, 13 Dec. 1931 [found in 1932 records]
16. Personal Interview, Nancy -- 7/23/2008
17. College Records, C.C.N.Y. records
18. Columbia University, Columbia University Catalogue, Various Internet Services, 1934-35 ed., p. 161.
19. College Records, Max Jacobs' Columbia University Transcript, n.d.
20. Résumé, Max Jacobs
21. College Records, Max Jacobs Columbia University Transcript, n.d.
22. Letter, Paula Jacobs to Adele Grantz, 3 June 1941
23. World War II Draft Registration Card
24. Shalmuk_2015, N.p.: n.p., 2015, Paula Glotzer
25. 1950 Fed'l Census, Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: New York, Bronx, New York; Roll: 6173; Sheet Number: 1; Enumeration District: 3-1981B
26. Max Jacobs, Max Jacobs to Paula Jacobs. July 16, 1954, a.l.s. July 16, 1954
27. Obituary in New York Times, p. 13, New York Times Company, New York City, 28 Feb 1958, RCJ books and files.

Nancy Louise Jacobs

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Robert Martin Greenberg

Bob Greenberg

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Biographical Details

Citations

1. Personal knowledge of Robert Jacobs
2. E-mail message, Nancy Greenberg to RCJ 9/13/2007
3. E-mail message, Nancy Greenberg to RCJ, n.d., Bob did Columbia from 9/60-5/64
4. E-mail message, Nancy Greenberg to RCJ, 3 November 2010
5. Newspaper, Obituary, Philadelphia Daily News, August 6, 2001, p.26
6. Social Security Death Index, U.S., Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
7. Find A Grave database, Online: http://www.findagrave.com, Memorial # 145683023

Jack Isador Lax

Jack Lax

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Biographical Details

1915	Birth	Jack Isador Lax was born on 2 October 1915 in New York City.1
1920	Residence	He lived at 1619 Washington Avenue in the Bronx on 8 January 1920.2
1930	Residence (family)	Anne May Lax, Helen Lax, he, and Joseph Szlojma Lax lived with Benjamin Lax and Dora Fierman at 1372 Ogden Avenue in the Bronx on 6 April 1930.3
1938	Marr-Partners	Jack Isador Lax married Gladys Ewig on 19 February 1938 in Brooklyn, New York.4
1940	Occupation	On 17 April 1940 Jack Isador Lax was a clerk in New York City.5
1940	Birth of Child	His daughter, Linda Lax, was born on 22 August 1940 in New York City.
1940	Residence (family)	He and Gladys Ewig lived at 219 Grant Avenue in the Bronx on 22 August 1940.6
	Occupation	From 1943 to 1971 Jack Isador Lax was a fire fighter for the New York Fire Department in New York City.7,8,9
1943	Birth of Child	His son, Alan Spencer Lax, was born on 24 June 1943 in New York City.
1945	Birth of Child	His daughter, Rochelle Lax, was born on 17 April 1945 in New York City.
1950	Residence (family)	Jack Isador Lax and Gladys Ewig lived at 1215 Nelson Ave., Apt. 3C, in the Bronx on 6 April 1950.8
1951	Birth of Child	His son, David Joseph Lax, was born on 10 July 1951 in New York City.
1964	Death of Parent	His mother, Dora Fierman, died on 11 February 1964 in New York City.
1970	Death of Parent	His father, Benjamin Lax, died on 19 February 1970 in Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida.
1971	Retirement	Jack Isador Lax retired on 9 March 1971 in New York City.9
1990	Death	He died on 24 September 1990 in Miami Beach, Florida.7,10
2002	Death of Spouse	His wife, Gladys Ewig, died on 26 January 2002 in Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Citations

1. Personal Interview, Linda Jacobs & RCJ, 20 Sepet. 2008
2. 1920 Federal Census, Bronx, New York, population schedule, Bronx, Enumeration District 152, sheet 13B, dwelling 17, family 253, National Archives micropublication T625-1133 (Benjamin Lax household).
3. 1930 Fed'l Census, Place: Bronx, Bronx, New York; Roll: 1468; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 0161; Image: 379.0; FHL microfilm: 2341203
4. New York, New York, Marriage Index 1866-1995 (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), New York City Municipal Archives; New York, New York; Borough: Brooklyn; Indexed Number: 9
5. 1940 Federal Census, Record originated in..., Jack Lax household
6. 1940 Federal Census, Record originated in..., Jack Lax household, Date: 17 APR 1940
7. Personal knowledge of Robert Jacobs
8. 1950 Fed'l Census, Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: New York, Bronx, New York; Roll: 4108; Sheet Number: 74; Enumeration District: 3-340
9. Retirement Certificate, New York Fire Department for Jack Lax, Date: 9 MAR 1971
10. Social Security Death Index, U.S., Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

Gladys Ewig

Gladys Ewig Lax at 11

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Biographical Details

Citations

1. Personal Interview, Linda Jacobs & RCJ, 3/20/2005
2. 1925 New York State Census (Ancestry.com), New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1925; Election District: 06; Assembly District: 04; City: New York; County: New York; Page: 65
3. 1930 Fed'l Census
4. New York, New York, Marriage Index 1866-1995 (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), New York City Municipal Archives; New York, New York; Borough: Brooklyn; Indexed Number: 9
5. 1940 Federal Census, Record originated in..., Jack Lax household, Date: 17 APR 1940
6. 1950 Fed'l Census, Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: New York, Bronx, New York; Roll: 4108; Sheet Number: 74; Enumeration District: 3-340
7. Personal Interview
8. Social Security Death Index, U.S., Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

Linda Lax

Linda Lax Jacobs, 1964

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Biographical Details

	Married	Linda Lax was also known as Linda Jacobs.1
	Birth	She was also known as Barbara Linda Lax.
1940	Birth	She was born on 22 August 1940 in New York City. Although she had been named Barbara Linda after her paternal grandmother, Brucha Laya, she always went by Linda.1
1940	Residence (family)	She lived with Jack Isador Lax and Gladys Ewig at 219 Grant Avenue in the Bronx on 22 August 1940.2
1950	Residence (family)	Linda Lax lived with Jack Isador Lax and Gladys Ewig at 1215 Nelson Ave., Apt. 3C, in the Bronx on 6 April 1950.3
	Education	Linda Lax studied at Hunter College High School in New York City from 1954 to 1958. Established for gifted students, Hunter College High School was located on the upper East Side of Manhattan. Admission was by examination; students accepted to Hunter represented the top one-quarter of 1% of students in New York City, based on their test scores. Linda graduated in June, 1958 and entered Hunter College as a freshman in September of that year.
1962	Graduation	She graduated from Hunter College in New York City in June 1962 with a B.A. in Political Science.1
	Occupation	From September 1962 to June 1965 Linda Lax was an elementary school teacher at New York City School System in the Bronx.1
1972	Graduation	She graduated from Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington, in 1972 with a Master of Education degree.1
About 1977	Residence	She lived in Orcas Island, San Juan County, Washington about 1977.1
1983	Occupation	In September 1983 Linda Lax was a college admissions counselor in Seattle, Washington.1
1990	Death of Parent	Her father, Jack Isador Lax, died on 24 September 1990 in Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County, Florida.
2002	Death of Parent	Her mother, Gladys Ewig, died on 26 January 2002 in Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida.
2004	Residence	Linda Lax lived at 3217 Eastlake Ave East, Apartment 407, in Seattle in February 2004.4
2013	Retirement	In March 2013 Linda Lax retired in Seattle.1
2021	Illness	She suffered from a serious stroke on 24 September 2021 at home in Seattle, Washington.
2023	Death	She died of a broken hip followed by inanition on 11 October 2023 at Kline Galland Hospice in Seattle, Washington.1
2023	Burial	She was buried on 20 October 2023 in Lake View Cemetery in Capitol Hill in Seattle, Washington.1

Citations

1. Personal knowledge of Robert Jacobs
2. 1940 Federal Census, Record originated in..., Jack Lax household, Date: 17 APR 1940
3. 1950 Fed'l Census, Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: New York, Bronx, New York; Roll: 4108; Sheet Number: 74; Enumeration District: 3-340
4. Ancestry.com, U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010).

Michael Cooper Jacobs

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Deborah Lax Jacobs

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James Edward Edson

Jim Edson

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Biographical Details

Citations

1. 1930 Fed'l Census
2. Personal knowledge of Robert Jacobs
3. Telephone Interview, Janet-Jean & RCJ, 12/11/2007
4. Newspaper, Seattle Times obituary, 4/27/2005
5. City Directory, Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

Janet Jean Jenks

Janet-Jean Edson

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Biographical Details

Citations

1. Personal Interview, Janet-Jean Edson & RCJ, 5 Sep. 2010
2. 1930 Fed'l Census, Cecil Jenks
3. Telephone Interview, Janet-Jean & RCJ, 12/11/2007
4. City Directory, Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
5. Social Security Death Index, U.S., Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
6. Death Certificate, Washington Cert. #1 08306 (Washington Digital Archives), Date: 22 MAR 1991
7. Personal knowledge of Robert Jacobs

Mollie Jenks Edson

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Elliot Edson Jacobs

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Madeleine Jane Jacobs

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Eleanor Grace Jacobs

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Solomon Jacobs

Solomon Jacobs

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Biographical Details

	Birth	Solomon Jacobs was also known as Zalmen Jankelewicz. Sometime after his arrival in the United States he changed it to Solomon Jacobs.1
1877	Birth	He was born on 1 April 1877 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.2
1892	Death of Parent	His mother, Frymeta Sadt, died on 20 August 1892 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.
1900	Marr-Partners	He married Zelda Leber on 5 April 1900 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland. In 1974, Aunt Sonya wrote, ". . . incidentally, your grandma & grandpa eloped. Since Grandpa's father was a man of the book, & Grandma's father was a butcher, the marriage was not considered 'suitable' so they eloped -- at which point Grandpa gave up all ideas of religion." Their marriage certificate, however, says that banns were posted in the synagogue in Piotrków three months before the wedding.3,4,5
1901	Birth of Child	His daughter, Frances ("Fanny") Jacobs, was born on 19 January 1901 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.
1902	Birth of Child	His son, Zysia Jankelewicz, was born in December 1902 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.
1903	Death	Solomon Jacobs was bereaved by the death of Zysia Jankelewicz on 24 November 1903 in Baluty, Poland. Baluty was part of Łódź.6,7
1904	Birth of Child	His son, Max Jacobs, was born on 17 April 1904 in Łódź, Poland.
1905	Immigration	Solomon Jacobs migrated in Ellis Island from Łódź on 15 January 1905 aboard the SS New York from Southampton. The ship's manifest states that he was joining his brother-in-law, M. Lieberman, 626 East 6th, NYC. A detention manifest names this contact as Maurice (Morris) Lieberman, 36 St. Marks Place, NYC.8,9
	Occupation	From 1905 to 1917 Solomon Jacobs was a house painter in New York City.10,11
1907	Birth of Child	His daughter, Sonya Jacobs, was born on 23 January 1907 in New York City.
1910	Residence (family)	He and Zelda Leber lived at 228 East Eighth Street in New York, New York on 7 April 1910. The Jacobs family moved around a lot as they became more prosperous. On April 7, 1910 they were at 228 East Eighth Street. In 1912 they were found at 380 East Eighth Street. In 1916 they were able to jump to the Bronx, first at 1348 Wilkins Avenue and then, by 1920, to 1440 Minford Place.12
1915	Residence (family)	He and Zelda Leber lived at 1348 Wilkins Avenue in the Bronx on 1 June 1915.11
1918	Anecdote (fam)	In 1918 In 1918 Solomon and Zelda purchased a farm in Rockville, Connecticut in partnership with Max and Martha Lieberman. My father, who hated it, and his younger sister Sonya also lived on this farm while Frances Jacobs remained in New York. They raised vegetables and apples, stored for the winter in a root cellar for home use and a small tobacco cash crop which was sold to cigar makers in NYC. They had a cow and a plow horse named Tom witth which Grandpa delivered milk (and home-made butter) to customers in the town. Sonya Scherer once told about the time when Grandpa had to spend a half hour talking Tom into removing a hoof from his foot on one of their milk delivery runs (Tom must have weighed about 1000 lbs). This enterprise was abandoned after a year as a result of disagreement among the partners.13,5,14
1918	Draft Registration	He registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 in Rockville, Tolland County, Connecticut.15
1920	Residence (family)	He and Zelda Leber lived at 1440 Minford Place in the Bronx on 16 January 1920.16
1923	Naturalization (fam)	He and Zelda Leber were naturalized on 25 May 1923 at the Bronx County Supreme Court.
1930	Residence (family)	He and Zelda Leber lived at 1529 Shakespeare Avenue in the Bronx on 2 April 1930. In addition to the three adult children, the apartment held their son-in-law Harry Leber and Boris Leber, their grandchild.17
	Occupation	From 1933 to 1942 Solomon Jacobs was a poultry farmer in Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey.1
1933	Death of Parent	His father, Szmul Jankelewicz, died on 29 August 1933 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.
	Residence	Solomon Jacobs lived at the farm in Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey from 1933 to 1942. During the years on the farm he also did some wine-making.18,19,20
1939	Death	He became a widower on the death of Zelda Leber on 4 June 1939 in Lakewood, Ocean County, New Jersey. She had been visiting her son Max at the sanitarium at Bedford Hills, NY and was aboard a bus returning to the farm. When the bus reached Lakewood, just a few miles from home, she suffered a fatal heart attack.21
1942	Death	He died of a heart attack on 11 May 1942 in Toms River, at age 65y.22
After 1942	Probate	His estate was probated after 11 May 1942 in Toms River. Although he died intestate, there are letters of administration and inventory documents.23
1942	Burial	He was buried on 12 May 1942 in the Jewish Farmers Community Cemetery in Toms River. The cemetery is located at 1222-1224 W. Whitty Road, Toms River: the grave is at 40.001800, -74.205994 (approximately.)24,22

Citations

1. Personal knowledge of Robert Jacobs
2. Naturalization Petition
3. 1910 Federal Census
4. Jewish Records Indexing - Poland, Akta 26, Zelda "Leber"
5. Sonya Jacobs Scherer to Robert Jacobs. April 8, 1974 5 Monticello Ave., Trenton, NJ.
6. Sonya Jacobs Scherer to Robert Jacobs. April 8, 1974 5 Monticello Ave., Trenton, NJ., 1910 Census; Sonya's letter
7. Polish Death Record, Zys Jankelewicz, Akta 1871, Łódź Archive, 1903, in Balutyj(?) the 11^th/24^th November of this year at 1 o’clock died Zys Yanklevich, 11 months old, born in the city of Piotrkov, son of Zalmen Yankelewicz and Zelde, née Leber, wife of Yankelevich, continuously resident of the city of Piotrkov.
8. 1920 Federal Census, Solomon Jacobs
9. Passenger Manifest, "Zalmen Janklewich"
10. 1930 Fed'l Census
11. 1915 New York State Census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1915; Election District: 35; Assembly District: 34; City: New York; County: Bronx; Page: 59
12. 1910 Federal Census, New York, New York, population schedule, Manhattan, Enumeration District 0257, sheet 15A, dwelling 14, family 228, National Archives micropublication T624-1012 (Solomon Jacobs household).
13. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, Ancestry.com. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2005. (Soloman Jacobs), Registration Location: Tolland County, Connecticut; Roll 1570619; Draft Board: 23.
14. E-mail message, Paul Scherer to RCJ, 26 July 2010
15. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, "Soloman" Jacobs; Ancestry.com on-line database
16. 1920 Federal Census
17. 1930 Fed'l Census, Bronx County, New York, Bronx, page 1A, National Archives micropublication T626-1468 (Solomon Jacobs household; name rendered as "Salomon").
18. Death Certificate
19. E-mail message, Paul Scherer to RCJ, 12/21/2007
20. Ocean County deed, Ocean County Courthouse, Toms River, NJ, Conveyance of the farm to Solomon Jacobs by Samuel and Lotty Kaufman, 14 February 1933. p. 471 of the volume
21. Death Certificate, Ocean County, NJ Death Certificate. May be #491
22. Death Certificate, Solomon Jacobs; file # may be 485
23. Telephone Interview, Ocean County New Jersey Surrogate's Court, 9/9/2008
24. Letter and map from Ephraim Robinson, 5/31/2000

Zelda Leber

Zelda Leber Jacobs

Parents

Biographical Details

	Married	Zelda Leber was also known as Zelda Jacobs. Her given name was rendered as "Selma" in a few documents.1
	Name	She was also known as Selma (sometimes Selde) Leber.
	Name	She was also known as Zelda Lieberman.
1876	Birth	She was born in 1876 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.2,3
1900	Marr-Partners	She married Solomon Jacobs on 5 April 1900 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland. In 1974, Aunt Sonya wrote, ". . . incidentally, your grandma & grandpa eloped. Since Grandpa's father was a man of the book, & Grandma's father was a butcher, the marriage was not considered 'suitable' so they eloped -- at which point Grandpa gave up all ideas of religion." Their marriage certificate, however, says that banns were posted in the synagogue in Piotrków three months before the wedding.4,5,6
1900	Death of Parent	Her father, Zysia Leber, died on 22 September 1900 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.
1901	Birth of Child	Her daughter, Frances ("Fanny") Jacobs, was born on 19 January 1901 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.
1902	Birth of Child	Her son, Zysia Jankelewicz, was born in December 1902 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.
1903	Death	Zelda Leber was bereaved by the death of Zysia Jankelewicz on 24 November 1903 in Baluty, Poland. Baluty was part of Łódź.7,8
1904	Birth of Child	Her son, Max Jacobs, was born on 17 April 1904 in Łódź, Poland.
1906	Immigration	She migrated to Ellis Island in New York on 24 April 1906, at age 30y, arriving aboard the SS Batavia from Hamburg. Her mother, Taube, and her children, Frances and Max, were in the party. Batavia's manifest lists her as "Selde Jacobs." Solomon, her husband, had preceded her to the United States by fifteen months.9
1907	Birth of Child	Her daughter, Sonya Jacobs, was born on 23 January 1907 in New York City.
1910	Residence (family)	Solomon Jacobs and Zelda Leber lived at 228 East Eighth Street in New York, New York on 7 April 1910. The Jacobs family moved around a lot as they became more prosperous. On April 7, 1910 they were at 228 East Eighth Street. In 1912 they were found at 380 East Eighth Street. In 1916 they were able to jump to the Bronx, first at 1348 Wilkins Avenue and then, by 1920, to 1440 Minford Place.10
1915	Residence (family)	Solomon Jacobs and she lived at 1348 Wilkins Avenue in the Bronx on 1 June 1915.11
1915	Death of Parent	Her mother, Fajga Taube Mendlowicz, died on 23 September 1915 in New York City.
1918	Anecdote (fam)	In 1918 In 1918 Solomon and Zelda purchased a farm in Rockville, Connecticut in partnership with Max and Martha Lieberman. My father, who hated it, and his younger sister Sonya also lived on this farm while Frances Jacobs remained in New York. They raised vegetables and apples, stored for the winter in a root cellar for home use and a small tobacco cash crop which was sold to cigar makers in NYC. They had a cow and a plow horse named Tom witth which Grandpa delivered milk (and home-made butter) to customers in the town. Sonya Scherer once told about the time when Grandpa had to spend a half hour talking Tom into removing a hoof from his foot on one of their milk delivery runs (Tom must have weighed about 1000 lbs). This enterprise was abandoned after a year as a result of disagreement among the partners.12,6,13
1920	Residence (family)	Solomon Jacobs and Zelda Leber lived at 1440 Minford Place in the Bronx on 16 January 1920.14
1923	Naturalization (fam)	Solomon Jacobs and she were naturalized on 25 May 1923 at the Bronx County Supreme Court.
1930	Residence (family)	Solomon Jacobs and she lived at 1529 Shakespeare Avenue in the Bronx on 2 April 1930. In addition to the three adult children, the apartment held their son-in-law Harry Leber and Boris Leber, their grandchild.15
	Residence	She lived at the farm in Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey from 1933 to 1939.16,17
1939	Death	She died on 4 June 1939 in Lakewood, Ocean County, New Jersey. She had been visiting her son Max at the sanitarium at Bedford Hills, NY and was aboard a bus returning to the farm. When the bus reached Lakewood, just a few miles from home, she suffered a fatal heart attack.18
1939	Burial	She was buried on 5 June 1939 in Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn. She lies in Grave 8 of Cemetery #4, Post 436, Row F.19
1942	Death of Spouse	Her husband, Solomon Jacobs, died on 11 May 1942 in Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey.
1943	Namesake	Steven Alan Beilock was named after Zelda Leber on 21 June 1943.20

Citations

1. Passenger Manifest
2. Death Certificate, NJ State Bureau of Vital Statistic; Ocean County, NJ June 4, 1939
3. Polish Marriage Record, Piotrków PSA, Fond 333 Akta 26 (Zelman Jankelewicz & Zelda Leber), Date: 1900
4. 1910 Federal Census
5. Jewish Records Indexing - Poland, Akta 26, Zelda "Leber"
6. Sonya Jacobs Scherer to Robert Jacobs. April 8, 1974 5 Monticello Ave., Trenton, NJ.
7. Sonya Jacobs Scherer to Robert Jacobs. April 8, 1974 5 Monticello Ave., Trenton, NJ., 1910 Census; Sonya's letter
8. Polish Death Record, Zys Jankelewicz, Akta 1871, Łódź Archive, 1903, in Balutyj(?) the 11^th/24^th November of this year at 1 o’clock died Zys Yanklevich, 11 months old, born in the city of Piotrkov, son of Zalmen Yankelewicz and Zelde, née Leber, wife of Yankelevich, continuously resident of the city of Piotrkov.
9. Passenger Manifest, "Selde Jacobs", SS Batavia, 24 April 1906.
10. 1910 Federal Census, New York, New York, population schedule, Manhattan, Enumeration District 0257, sheet 15A, dwelling 14, family 228, National Archives micropublication T624-1012 (Solomon Jacobs household).
11. 1915 New York State Census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1915; Election District: 35; Assembly District: 34; City: New York; County: Bronx; Page: 59
12. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, Ancestry.com. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2005. (Soloman Jacobs), Registration Location: Tolland County, Connecticut; Roll 1570619; Draft Board: 23.
13. E-mail message, Paul Scherer to RCJ, 26 July 2010
14. 1920 Federal Census
15. 1930 Fed'l Census, Bronx County, New York, Bronx, page 1A, National Archives micropublication T626-1468 (Solomon Jacobs household; name rendered as "Salomon").
16. Death Certificate, Ocean County, NJ Death Certificate. May be #491., Specifies 16 years as length of stay in Toms River
17. E-mail message, Paul Scherer to RCJ, 12/21/2007
18. Death Certificate, Ocean County, NJ Death Certificate. May be #491
19. Death Certificate
20. Personal Interview, Phyllis Lieberman Beilock, 9 July 2008

Frances ("Fanny") Jacobs

Frances Leber

Parents

Biographical Details

	Married	Frances ("Fanny") Jacobs was also known as Frances Leber.1
	Birth	She was also known as Frimet Jankelewicz.
	Note	Frances was an active member of the Communist Party, probably from 1937 on. She was under frequent FBI surveillance from 1944. She left the Party after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 which was also about the time she moved from the farm to New York City. The FBI unsuccessfully sought to recruit her as an informant in 1962 as an FBI memo of September 7, 1962 shows.2
	Occupation	Frances ("Fanny") Jacobs was a dance instructor, poultry farmer, secretary and a political activist who led an interesting and busy life.3
1901	Birth	She was born on 19 January 1901 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.4
1906	Immigration	She migrated to Ellis Island in New York City on 24 April 1906. aboard the SS Batavia from Hamburg. She arrived in the United States with her mother, her grandmother and her infant brother Max. She is listed as "Fremet Jacobs" on the ship's manifest. She was five years old.5
1910	Residence (family)	She, Max Jacobs, and Sonya Jacobs lived with Solomon Jacobs and Zelda Leber at 228 East Eighth Street in New York, New York on 7 April 1910. The Jacobs family moved around a lot as they became more prosperous. On April 7, 1910 they were at 228 East Eighth Street. In 1912 they were found at 380 East Eighth Street. In 1916 they were able to jump to the Bronx, first at 1348 Wilkins Avenue and then, by 1920, to 1440 Minford Place.6
1912	Residence	Frances ("Fanny") Jacobs lived at 380 East 8th Street in New York on 15 February 1912.7
1915	Residence (family)	She, Max Jacobs, and Sonya Jacobs lived with Solomon Jacobs and Zelda Leber at 1348 Wilkins Avenue in the Bronx on 1 June 1915.8
1920	Residence (family)	Frances ("Fanny") Jacobs, Max Jacobs, and Sonya Jacobs lived with Solomon Jacobs and Zelda Leber at 1440 Minford Place in the Bronx on 16 January 1920.9
1923	Naturalization (fam)	Max Jacobs, Frances ("Fanny") Jacobs, and Sonya Jacobs were naturalized as part of the family of Solomon Jacobs and Zelda Leber at the Bronx County Supreme Court on 25 May 1923.
1924	Marr-Partners	Frances ("Fanny") Jacobs married Harry Nathan Leber on 19 January 1924 at Borough Hall in the Bronx. Harry and Frances were second cousins. Szmul Lejb Leber, their great-grandfather, was their common ancestor.1,10
1925	Birth of Child	Her son, Boris Leber, was born on 20 November 1925 in New York City.
1930	Residence (family)	As adult children, Frances ("Fanny") Jacobs, Max Jacobs, and Sonya Jacobs lived with Solomon Jacobs and Zelda Leber at 1529 Shakespeare Avenue in the Bronx on 2 April 1930. In addition to the three adult children, the apartment held their son-in-law Harry Leber and Boris Leber, their grandchild.11
1930	Birth of Child	Her son, Eric Stephen Leber, was born on 9 September 1930 in Bronx, New York.
1934	Occupation	In 1934 Frances ("Fanny") Jacobs was the director of the Rebel Arts Dance Group at East Twenty-second Street in New York City.
	Residence	She lived at the farm in Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey from 1938 to 1957.12,13
1939	Death of Parent	Her mother, Zelda Leber, died on 4 June 1939 in Lakewood, Ocean County, New Jersey.
1942	Death of Parent	Her father, Solomon Jacobs, died on 11 May 1942 in Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey.
1950	Election	Frances ("Fanny") Jacobs ran for in 1950 at Third Congressional District in New Jersey. Frances ran on the Progressive ticket for the House of Representatives in 1950 in New Jersey's Third Congressional District. She received 764 votes, 0.6% of the total vote. 1950 was not a good year for Progressives or Communists.
1950	Residence (family)	Harry Nathan Leber and she lived at the family farm on Route 94 in Toms River, New Jersey on 6 May 1950.14
1950	Travel	She traveled to Warsaw, Poland, from to attend the Second World Peace Congress in November 1950 A variety of Soviet-style resolutions were passed at the Congress.15,3
1950	Psgr List	Her name was found on the manifest of the SS America on 7 December 1950 in New York. Frances was returning from Le Havre after trip to Warsaw where she attended the November World Peace Congress. She traveled on passport #60429 which, with the help of her attorney, Leonard Boudin, she had wrested from the State Department after its initial refusal to issue it.16,17,18
1952	Note	Frances visited Mexico in March of 1952 and again in 1954.13
1954	Death	She witnessed the death of Harry Nathan Leber on 22 September 1954 in Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey.19
1954	Will	She was named as a beneficiary in the will of Harry Nathan Leber in October 1954 in Toms River.20
1957	Residence	She lived at 323 East Gunhill Road in the Bronx in November 1957. While she was moving to New York and cleaning things out at the farm, the FBI was scrutinizing her trash.21
	Occupation	From January 1958 to June 1962 Frances ("Fanny") Jacobs was a secretary at the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee in New York City.22,23
1961	Residence	She lived at 264 East Broadway in New York City in May 1961.24
	Employment	She was employed as a secretary by the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee from October 1961 to May 1962 in New York. The ECLC was known for its opposition to the House Unamerican Activities and Senate Internal Security committees. Corliss Lamont was its chairman when Frances worked there.
1962	Occupation	In September 1962 Frances ("Fanny") Jacobs was a part-time secretary for the Henry Street Settlement in New York City.25
1968	Death	She died of a heart attack in February 1968 in New York City.26

Citations

1. New York City Brides Index
2. U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI Case File #100-3305321, Frances Leber, Section 2, page 78
3. Personal knowledge of Robert Jacobs
4. Social Security Application, Frances Jacobs
5. Passenger Manifest, Selde Jacobs
6. 1910 Federal Census, New York, New York, population schedule, Manhattan, Enumeration District 0257, sheet 15A, dwelling 14, family 228, National Archives micropublication T624-1012 (Solomon Jacobs household).
7. Passenger Manifest, SS President Grant, 15 Feb. 1912
8. 1915 New York State Census, New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1915; Election District: 35; Assembly District: 34; City: New York; County: Bronx; Page: 59
9. 1920 Federal Census
10. Marriage Certificate, Bronx Cert. #781, 19 Jan 1924
11. 1930 Fed'l Census, Bronx County, New York, Bronx, page 1A, National Archives micropublication T626-1468 (Solomon Jacobs household; name rendered as "Salomon").
12. Death Certificate, Specifies 16 years as length of stay in Toms River
13. U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI Case File #100-3305321, Frances Leber
14. 1950 Fed'l Census, Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Dover, Ocean, New Jersey; Roll: 5441; Sheet Number: 75; Enumeration District: 15-24B
15. Newspaper, Asbury Park (NJ) Press, 24 November 1950, p.7
16. Passenger Manifest, SS America from Le Havre 7 Dec 1950
17. Telephone Interview, Phyllis Lieberman & RCJ, 12/2/2007
18. U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI Case File #100-3305321, Frances Leber, Frances Leber
19. Death Certificate, New Jersey State Department of Health
20. Newspaper, Asbury Park Press, p.10, Date: 7 OCT 1954
21. U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI Case File #100-3305321, Frances Leber, p. 273
22. U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI Case File #100-3305321, Frances Leber, p. 277
23. U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI Case File #100-3305321, Frances Leber, p. II-67
24. U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI Case File #100-3305321, Frances Leber, p. II-31
25. U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI Case File #100-3305321, Frances Leber, p. II-64
26. Social Security Death Index, U.S., Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

Chonya Glotzer

Chonya Glotzer — "Chonya the Bathman"

Parents

Biographical Details

	Name	Chonya Glotzer was also known as Chonya Glotzer. Later in life he became known locally as "Chonya the Bathman.".
About 1870	Birth	He was born about 1870 in Poland.1,2
About 1890	Marr-Partners	He married Hannah Eisenberg about 1890.
	Note	Chonya is said to have won a lifesaving medal for rescuing people who had broken through the ice on the Pina River.3
1892	Birth of Child	His daughter, Chinka Glotzer, was born on 10 July 1892 in Pinsk, Belarus.
About 1894	Death of Child	His son, Infant Glotzer, died about 15 October 1894 in Pinsk, Belarus.
1894	Birth of Child	His daughter, Faigl Glotzer, was born on 15 October 1894 in Pinsk, Belarus.
1894	Birth of Child	His son, Infant Glotzer, was born on 15 October 1894 in Pinsk, Belarus.
1895	Birth of Child	His son, Itzhak Glotzer, was born on 13 December 1895 in Pinsk, Belarus.
1897	Birth of Child	His daughter, Raisel Glotzer, was born on 22 August 1897 in Pinsk, Belarus.
About 1898	Death of Spouse	His wife, Hannah Eisenberg, died about 1898 in Pinsk, Belarus.
1898	Marr-Partners	Chonya Glotzer married Chinka Kuperman in 1898 in Pinsk, Belarus.4
1899	Birth of Child	His daughter, Adele Glotzer, was born on 15 October 1899 in Pinsk, Belarus.
1901	Birth of Child	His son, Moshe Glotzer, was born in 1901 in Pinsk, Belarus.
1903	Birth of Child	His son, Benjamin Glotzer, was born on 22 October 1903 in Pinsk, Belarus.
1905	Death of Parent	His father, Schmuel Falkov Glotzer, died in 1905.
About 1906	Birth of Child	His son, Yankl Glotzer, was born about 1906 in Pinsk, Belarus.
1908	Birth of Child	His daughter, Paula Glotzer, was born on 3 March 1908 in Pinsk, Belarus.
1915	Death of Spouse	His wife, Chinka Kuperman, died on 7 December 1915 in Pinsk, Belarus.
1916	Death of Parent	His mother, Rochl Ziperstein, died in 1916 in Palestine.
	Residence	Chonya Glotzer lived at Nadbrzezna Street 76 in Pinsk, Belarus from 1924 to 1929.5,6
1929	Occupation	In 1929 Chonya Glotzer was the proprietor of a steam bath — a mikveh — as reported by a 1929 Polish business directory in Pinsk, Belarus. According to Memories of Pinsk Inhabitants, "Above is a square brick column with a stork's nest which has become a recognizable part of the historic city center. Once, the city baths were located here, which were created from Chonika [sic] Glocer mikveh. The building, well-known to older residents of Pinsk, was demolished. In 2005, a dedication ceremony was held for a new mikveh, located not far from the main square, at 18 Belov Street."7,6
1941	Death	He died in 1941 in Pinsk, Belarus. He was probably one of the group of eight or ten thousand Jews who were shot in the forest on the first day of the German occupation. His name does not appear on the lists of ghetto residents which were subsequently made.
About 1941	Death of Child	His son, Itzhak Glotzer, died about 1941 in Pinsk.
About 1941	Death of Child	His son, Yankl Glotzer, died about 1941 in Pinsk.
1941	Death of Child	His son, Moshe Glotzer, died in 1941 in Pinsk.

Citations

1. Hannah Cooper Guterman, Hannah Guterman's typescript memoir (1986), n.p.
2. 1930 Fed'l Census, Paula Glotzer
3. E-mail message, Simone Chomentowski to RCJ, 6/25/2008, The river which crossed Pinsk the Pina was frozen in winter and a lot of farmers used to go sledging (or on sleighs? "aller en traineau") on it. But at the end of winter it could become dangerous because it happenned that ice broke under the people'weight and they get drown in the river. My mother's uncle, your grandfather, saved a lot of farmers and he was awarded a medal for having saved 41 persons (I don't remember who told me, maybe my mother).
4. Personal Interview, Arthur Grantz, 11/7/07
5. Passport, Benjamin Glotzer's Polish military passport
6. Online Polish Business Directory, 1929, p. 1097, Chonya Glotzer listed under "Laznie (bains de vapeur)"
7. Online Record, Memories of Pinsk Inhabitants, http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/pinsk/16,accounts-memories/16108,memories-of-pinsk-inhabitants/?print=1