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The Liebman –
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name in either family tree below for more information on many
individuals listed. For a full page, printable family tree,
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here for the top tree and
here for the bottom one.
New Jersey and
Cleveland Branches
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Southern Loveman
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The Cleveland Lovemans
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 akob
Liebman (1808-1881), Yetta Karpel (1809-?) and their two
youngest children were enumerated in the town of Zamutov in Zemplén
County on December 31, 1869. Also living with them in the two-room house were their son
Abraham, his wife and a servant. Their home had a vestibule and a
closet, with a stable and a granary on the property. The family
owned two cows, three calves and a goat. |
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All told, Jakob and
Yetta had at least eight offspring, listed below, and more than 50
grandchildren, most of whom wound up in Cleveland, Ohio, something
of a magnet for Hungarian Jews at the end of the 19th century.
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Suve
(1822 – bef 1843). Born in Zamutov, Suve married a
cousin, Györke-born Mendel Meyer
Liebman
(1812-1888). Mendel is said to have
gone to America in 1865 with his nephew
Adolf B. Loveman,
but eventually to have returned to Györke, where he died.
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 Iszak
Wolf (1832-1876) and
Sarah Glick (at right) and their five eldest children
lived in a one-room house with a vestibule and a closet in
1869. He likely never emigrated to the
U.S., but his wife and six of their eight children
did. The eight were:
Marcus
(1859-1915),
Louis
(1861-1940),
Morris
(1863-1920),
Benjamin
(1866-?),
Joseph
(1868-1934),
Jacob
(1870-?),
Martin
(1873-1951)
and
Rose
(1884-1955).
Joseph's son,
William Julius Loveman
(1891-1921) was a musician and a composer. |
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Hane
(ca. 1833-?) and her husband,
Elias Friedman (1831-?) were both born in Zamutov. They married there
in 1853 and had four children: Chaim (1858-?), Sali
(1857-?), Fani (1862-?) and Natan (1866-?). No other records of
them appear to have survived. |
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Lena
(1840-1925) was enumerated with husband Aron Friedman
(1840-1910), several children, and others in Zamutov
in 1869.
Only one of their ten children,
Mendel (1877-1975), settled in the U.S.; he went to Cleveland
and became
Emil. The
others
stayed behind
and most met tragic fates in the
Holocaust.
Lena later lived in Rozhanovce, Slovakia. |
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Abraham (1842-1919) and
Rose Glick (1843-1911) married in Hanušovce nad Topľou
in 1867. In about 1872, they left for
Cleveland, where he owned a saloon. They had nine children in Cleveland
between 1870 and 1890:
Lena (1870-1923), Charles (1873-1952), Rose (1875-1926),
Benjamin
(1877-1906),
Albert
(1879-?),
Sarah
(1880-?),
Yettie,
or
Etta (1883-1910),
Jacob (1886-1962) and
William (1890-?). |
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Emil and Jennie Goodfriend. Click to enlarge.
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Jennie
(1844-1925) was enumerated with her husband Mendel (Emil) Guttfreund (ca. 1840-1915) their eldest son and others in
Zamutov in the 1869 census. Between 1866-1890, they had 10
children in Hungary before emigrating to Ohio in 1900 and
bec0ming Goodfriends:
Marcus
(1866-?),
Chaim (1870-?),
Sara
(1872-?),
David (1874-1963),
Rose (1877-1905),
Elka
(1879-?),
Julia
(1882-1949),
Lena
(1886-1962),
Hannah
(1887-1980) and
Jacob
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Emanuel
(1848-1913), married ca. 1872, probably in the U.S., though
his wife
Yetta
(1857-1933) was
Hungarian-born. They kept the Liebman surname, lived in
Knoxville, Tennessee and had one child,
Fannie
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Marcus
(1851-1937) married Lena Bloom (1855-1890). They had
three children,
Csewa (1872-1885?),
David (1875-1955) and
Catherine (1878-1959), before
emigrating to the U.S. in 1877, and five more in Cleveland
before Lena died at age 35:
Yetta (1881-1943),
Rose (1883-1953),
Mary (1885-1980),
Leah (1887-1890?) and
Fanny (1890-aft 1972).
Soon after, Marcus married Hermina Mittleman
(1869-1946), also from Hungary, and between 1891-1903 she
bore himsix more children:
Louis (1891-1892),
Ruth
(1892-1964),
Albert
(1894-1961),
Burton (1898-1954),
Rhea (1900-1992) and
Clifford
(1903-1962). A paper and twine
merchant, he helped found Temple B'nai Jeshurun. |
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Marcus and Lena
Loveman, undated photo. Click to enlarge.
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acknowledgments and contact information, click
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Scott D. Seligman, 2007-2019.
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