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About Max Jacobowitz
From "Three Score and a Dozen" by Milton Jacobowitz, August 16, 1949.
"Max Jacobowitz, was born Mayer ben Zev, in Zamplain Medyon (Austria Hungary) on March 28, 1877, to Wolf Jacobowitz and to a mother who died when he was seven, one of four boys and two girls. For some reason he was the “unfavorite” of his stepmother and eked out enough to buy the barest of necessities of maintenance of life, for a roving boy not wanted at home, by teaching Hebrew reading and writing, and by preparing for “Bar Mitzvah" children of poor people living in the back woods for a pittance or a meal or a night’s lodging.
At the age of nine, he arranged to be smuggled into Germany by lying still under a wagon load of tobacco (strange coincidence) going across the border and made his precarious, difficult way to New York’s “East Side”. As a boy here, he continued to support himself by teaching Hebrew and stripping tobacco leaves in various lower New York segar factories and as a “customer peddler” in Brooklyn and Long Island."
(From Ed Schwartz, his great-grandson.) Max was a "tough guy." He didn't get along with Wolf's new wife, Regina Eichler, his step-mother. He smuggled himself out of Hungary in a tobacco cart. When Hudson Tobacco broke up, Connie took much of the money that perhaps should have gone to Carlyn.
- Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Dec 2 2019, 20:09:15 UTC
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Max Jacobowitz's Timeline
| 1876 |
March 26, 1876
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Košice Region, Slovakia
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| 1884 |
September 19, 1884
Age 39
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Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen, Hungary, Humenné, Zemplén, Prešov Region, Slovakia
M Jakobovits
Ten kilometers from Humenne, https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Homonna,+Slovakia/067+11+%C4%BDubi%...
LKJ As I Remember: " She was devoted to her scholarly husband, more suited for study than business; worked hard all her life, helping with dairy produce to sell, and died at an early age (37) after a miscarriage,..." |