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Named for grandmother Elka.

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Died at age 14 after swimming at the Covenant Club of Septicemia or some other infection caught in the water.

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David immigrated to the US in about 1895 from Russia when he was about 14 or 15 years old, four years after his father, and 4 years before his mother, and brothers LeRoy and Joseph and sister Esther. In the 1908 Dayton city directory he is living with his parents and listed as a coppersmith. He is listed in the household of his father-in-law, Moses Schetzer, in the 1910 census in Louisville, Kentucky. By the 1920 census, David and family had moved to Dayton, Ohio where he was a wholesale fruit merchant with his own warehouse. He was also a brakeman on the railroad. His death certificate states that he died in an accident after he fell while getting off a streetcar and listed his occupation as wholesale fruit merchant.

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Esther immigrated to the US in 1899 with her mother and brothers Leroy and Joseph. She is listed in the Dayton City directory as living at home with her parents in 1906. She must have married Charlie Weisman in 1906 or 1907 as she is listed on the 1910 census with him, married three years with their two children Anna B., 3, and Norman 1 11/12.

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Max owned a scrap iron yard in Indianapolis. Eveyln was a caterer and did the majority of Jewish functions in Indianapolis. Max never lived in Chicago.

Max is listed as living at home with his parents in the Dayton, Ohio city directories of 1906, 1908 and 1909. He is not listed in the 1910 census with them. Had he moved to Indiana by then or was he living elsewhere in Dayton?

He served in WWI enlisting in the National Guard at Fort Thomas, KY on 11 Sept 1917. Machine Gun Company 148 Infantry to 19 May 1918; Supply Depot Quartermaster Corps Cp Sheridan Ala to 7 Oct 1918; United States Nitrate Plant 1 Sheffield Ala to Discharge Corporal 28 Oct 1917; Private 18 May 1918; Corporal 8 Jan 1919. Honorable discharge 23 Feb 1919.

Hebrew name Mortchel.

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Joe was a major domo for Al Capone in Chicago. He was a bootlegger who made whiskey that was cut down from grain alcohol for the speakeasies in Chicago. He was not just someone who delivered whisky barrels off the truck. He was much higher up in the organization. Milt (his nephew) says that Joe was a snappy dresser and owned one of the first automobiles in Chicago. When Joe's older brother Leroy was out of work, Joe gave him jobs picking up barrels of grain alcohol, "alkie", and delivering them. Milt, Leroy's son went with him on some of these runs and remembers that they could only fit 5 barrels in the car at one time.

Milt tells a story about Joe's dog, a toy-size bulldog. Joe brought his dog with him to dinner at Milt's family's home. He put the dog on a chair at the table, and placed a napkin around his neck. Supposedly, the dog would use both front paws to eat with a fork from a dish on the table

Joe is listed living with his parents in Dayton, Ohio in the 1908 city directory and the 1910 census.

Joe died of pneumonia on Dec. 21, 1926 in Chicago when he was only 35. His death certificate lists his occupation as Salesman for the Capitol Bag & Burlap Company (possibly a front company?). He also served in WWI.

Hebrew name Jankiel.

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Ethel was an R.N. She worked as a nurse at Wright Patterson Air Force Basie in Ohio in WWII.

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1910 Ohio Census: Charles, Esther, Anna, Norman (from Michael Gordon) Signed his name Chas. Wiesman according to Florence Ruskin.

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Dave Margolis owned a department store in Dayton, OH. Later he was a partner in a hotel in San Francisco, CA. His son was a judge in Southern California.