Morris Rosenberg

In 1916, following the death of her husband, Hannah Rosenberg admitted her four sons – Sam (10), Morris (9), Victor (7), and Jacob (4) — to the Home from Nashville, Tennessee. Within two years, Sam returned to his mother who had married retail grocer Israel Stravinsky. Morris and his two younger brothers remained in the Home until 1922, when they also were discharged to their mother in Nashville.

While in the Home, Morris won election as president of the Golden City Brotherhood, and with his brother Victor, participated in the Home’s Boy Scout troop. Soon after Superintendent Leon Volmer allowed the boys to organize the Home’s Animal Pet Association, in which the participants raised and sold for profit rabbits, chickens, and other small animals, Morris distinguished himself for his live-stock prowess, earning the following kudos from the Times-Picayune in a 1919 article: “Morris Rosenberg, a Nashville orphan, is known as the plunger, being probably the largest individual stock-owner. He denies any element of luck, but says as he learns his possessions and gathers dividends, he acquires more, and has little difficulty in taking care of the expansion.”