by marlenetrestman | Jan 12, 2023
Bella Loeb In June 1887, ten-year-old Bella Loeb and her younger brothers George and Henry, Jr. were admitted to the Home from Donaldsonville, Louisiana following the death of their widowed mother Elizabeth McManus of Ireland. Before he died in the yellow fever...
by marlenetrestman | Jan 11, 2023
Joseph Sonnenberg Admitted in 1887 from Fort Worth, Texas, with older brothers Abraham and Israel, Joseph Sonnenberg’s description in the Home’s registry as “disorderly” gave little indication of his later heralded life in law enforcement....
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...
