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B”H
Both sides of our family arrived in the USA by 1872. Maternal side arrived to transplant business when protectionist tariffs of President Ulysses S. Grant virtually shut down importation of their factory’s product from Germany. So, a decision was made to open manufacturing in upstate NY. The entire family immigrated en masse.
Father’s side arrived soon thereafter and established a network of mercantile stores in small town America. My great-grandfather, having only daughters saw the need to move to NYC in 1895 to find suitable sons-in-law. He set up a series of factories to supply the assorted family retail operations as well as Jewish owned stores across America.
B”H we were not subjected to the wars and Regimes changes of 20th Century Europe that destroyed Jewish life and businesses.
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