by marlenetrestman | Jan 10, 2023
Sybil and Frederica Bianchini According to family records, Rafael Bianchini came to America from Livorno, Italy. By the 1880s, he settled in San Antonio, Texas where he ran a restaurant offering “choicest of meats, game, oysters, fish, salads and...
by marlenetrestman | Jan 9, 2023
Annie Rubenstein Lucas Annie Rubenstein was born in 1879 in Elmira, New York to Moses Rubenstein and the former Cecile Finesilver, immigrants of what is today Sulwalki, Poland. After both parents died, Annie entered the Home in 1885 at age 6 with her sister Frieda and...
by marlenetrestman | Jan 8, 2023
Phelps Family As reflected by the birthplaces of their five children, immigrant merchant Lazar Phelps and his wife Miriam had relocated several times before settling in New Orleans. Lena, the eldest child, was born in 1875 in Argentina; two years later Max was born in...
by marlenetrestman | Jan 8, 2023
Isadore Moritz Home alumnus Isadore Moritz and his wife, the former Julia Bullock. This photo, which was reprinted in a 1998 in a commemorative book published by Temple Emanuel of McAllen, Texas, was provided by Harvey and Calvin Wolff, Isadore’s grandsons....
by marlenetrestman | Jan 7, 2023
Edgar Goldberg Edgar Goldberg was born in 1876 in Delta, Louisiana to Jewish immigrant parents who died before his seventh birthday. Admitted by his uncle, Goldberg lived in the Home for seven years. After his initial discharge to apprentice with a jeweler in Jackson,...
