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BEN
NEMENOFF & RACHEL GLICK
More individual information on
Ben or
Rachel
is available on other pages of this website. Simply click on
their names in this text or navigate to them though this site's
"Family Bios" page.
Ben and
Rachel met and married in
Montreal, likely around 1906 or 1907. Their first son Harry
was born there in 1910, the same year Ben emigrated to Chicago.
Rachel and Harry followed a few months later. In Chicago, they
had six more children and possibly two others that were either
stillborn or died in infancy.
Their descendents make up
much of the Nemenoff line in America.
Rachel gave Ben the gold ring pictured here as a
wedding gift. Ben's initials are inscribed on it, with the "B"
overlapping the "N."
According to Ben's U.S. immigration documents,
they lived at 10 Royal Lane in Montreal. According to the
Chicago Public Library, which maintains copies of old phone
directories, Ben and Rachel lived at a minimum of two places prior
to his death in 1929: 1143 N. Rockwell and 1444 N. Talman,
both of which are in the Humboldt Park area on the northwest side of
Chicago. They were living at the Talman address when he died,
and they very likely lived at multiple other addresses that are
undocumented.
Their names along with those of five of their
children (Harry, Jacob [Jack], Isadore, Sophia, and Max [Martin,
Husky]) are listed in the 1920 U.S. Census. Their sixth child David
was born in 1920, their last, Eva, was born later. They are
listed on lines 84-90 on the Census form that has been enlarged
below. An Adobe Acrobat file of the full form is also below.
Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920
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http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
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