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Aaron Kreinik

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Gmina Sędziszów Małopolski, Ropczyce-Sędziszów County, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland
Death: March 05, 1952 (86)
Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Zvie Chaim (Harry H) Kreinik and Rachel Z Kreinik
Husband of Gussie ELSTER
Father of Samuel Kreinik; Harry Charles Kreinik; William Kreinik; Max V Kreinik and Bertha Kreinik
Brother of Nathan Kreinik and S Josef Kreinik
Half brother of Zalmon Kreinik

Occupation: Dry Goods Haberdashery
Managed by: Private User
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About Aaron Kreinik

Richard Kreinik, December 8, 2012: "Grandpa Aaron was a small man as i recall who lived on the west side of Buffalo and owned a haberdashery on grant St"

Betty Kreinik Klein, his granddaughter; March 2013: "Aaron passed away at 91. He owned a clothing store."

"It is good to know your ancestry were people of some education, intelligence and refinement, according to the manner of their times and the laws of their religion. On the paternal side, Zvie Chaim and Rachel Kreinik, lived in a town larger than my village (Zglobien). They were in the garment business (which Father really hated but wasn't trained for anything else) and once a year the sons, Nathan, Zalmon and Aaron, would take a load of finished garments to Krakow, where there was a Kirmash, a sort of Carnival and open market, to sell their stock. I remember that trip because it was the occasion also of Uncle Aaron's wedding to Tante Gittel in Krakow. Papa was in America, as I have already written, and Mama, Anna, Irving amd I were back n Europe for Mother's health." Leah Kreinik Jacobowitz, As I Remember, 1962, pp 12-13

1902 "My next stop was at Uncle Aaron's, who had settled in a small town in Louisiana, operating a dry goods store with the aid of a nephew of Tante Gittel's. It was Passover time, so I stayed two or three weeks, and had a very enjoyable time. There were very few, if any, Jewish families there, and the neighbors, perhaps out of curiosity, then real friendship, invited me to their parties, dances, which Tante helped me reciprocate with her hospitality. The nephew sort of rushed me, and proposed marriage. He was a nice boy still rather foreign, and it was nice to be liked. I had vague ideas of helping him get an American education, and wrote home about him. I wasn't really serious, just playing with the idea, and I got some good 'advice' from home, Anna writing for the folks, urging me to come home."

Leah Kreinik Jacobowitz, As I Remember, 1962, page 31 (electronic) 31.

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Aaron Kreinik's Timeline

1865
July 1865
Gmina Sędziszów Małopolski, Ropczyce-Sędziszów County, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland

I guessed that he was about 22 when he married Gittel. Leah Kreinik Jacobowitz attended the wedding and wrote about it in "As I Remember."

1890
April 20, 1890
Debica, Dębica County, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland
Registration State: New York; Registration County: Erie; Roll: 1712123; Draft Board: 07 Title U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 Author Ancestry.com Publisher Ancestry.com Operations Inc Publisher Date 2005 Provo, UT, USA Repository Information Name Ancestry.com
1897
January 9, 1897
Buffalo, Erie County, New York, United States
1901
February 28, 1901
Buffalo, Erie County, New York, United States
1902
April 22, 1902
- 1907
Age 36
Cottonport, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, United States

Leah Kreinik Jacobowitz, As I Remember, " I started for home in the Spring of 1902, .... My next stop was at Uncle Aaron's, who had settled in a small town in Louisiana, operating a dry goods store with the aid of a nephew of Tante Gittel's. It was Passover time, so I stayed two or three weeks, and had a very enjoyable time. There were very few, if any, Jewish families there, and the neighbors, perhaps out of curiosity, then real friendliness, invited us to our parties, dances, which Tante helped me reciprocate with her hospitality. The nephew sort of rushed me, and proposed marriage. He was a nice boy, still rather foreign, and it was nice to be liked. I had vague ideas of helping him get an American education, and wrote home about him. I wasn't really serious, just playing with the idea, and I got some good "advice" from home, Ann writing for the folks, urging me to come home.

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Marjorie Lee Bordelon, 1909-
A Study of a rural town in Louisiana
pages 14-15
"The total population a decade later increased 15.86% to 29,655, of which 60% were white. The number of colored people actually decreased 10%, probably due to the fact that several large sawmills preferring negro labor developed in neighboring parishes. The foreign-born element had decreased from 315 in 1870 to 245 in 1890, but according to the 1900 census, the number rose to 334. In 1892, one of the worst high waters in history destroyed most of the crops of that year. The deposits from the slowly receding water, however, left the land more fertile than before. In this decade there was again a marked increase in the acreage of the principal crops. …

Expansion in business, industry, and education in Avoyelles characterize the first ten years of the 20th Century...."

1903
1903
Cottonport, Avoyelles, Louisiana, United States
1906
June 14, 1906
Cottonport, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, United States

She might have been born in Cottonport, LA, but she isn't in the Parish records and the state didn't keep records in 1906.