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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 bottom one.
New Jersey and
Cleveland Branches
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Southern Loveman
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The New Jersey Liebmans -
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  he
youngest child of Izsak Liebman and Rezi Guttmann was
Leah
(Lena; 1850-1920). The 1869 Census of Zemplén County
lists two records of young women by this name. One was of
a Leni Liebman, a daughter in the house of Izsak in Zamutov, but
her date of birth was given as 1843. |
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A second was for a
Lena Liebmann living in Varanno (Vranov
nad Topľou) also born in Zamutov. It was of a single Jewish
female living with other individuals to whom she was not
obviously related and gave her birth year as 1852. She was
listed as a servant in a house that had two lodgings (probably
bedrooms), a pantry, a vestibule and a kitchen with a store, a
stable and a lean-to shed.
Lena married
Moritz Abrahamovics (1848-1920) from the nearby town of
Komariany in 1872. She bore their first son,
David
(1874-1950) and their second,
Jacob (1876-1958) in
Europe, as well as a third son, Markus (1878-?), who does
not appear to have survived to adulthood.
The family
probably emigrated in the very early 1880s. Their first
daughter,
Kate (1882-1958), was born in Newark. She was
followed by
Mary (1883-1972),
Yetta (1885-1960),
Samuel (1892-1951) and
Pauline (1884-1920). Moritz
filed citizenship papers on 31 May 1883 in Essex County. He was
naturalized on 18 Oct 1885. |
A record of Lena Liebman's birth
in Zamutov on 16 Jun 1850 survives.
Lena and Moritz Abrahamovics
(later Abrams), in the only surviving photograph of the two of
them.
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The family lived
at 141 Prince Street in Newark in 1885 through about 1890, moved
briefly to 198 Broome Street in 1891, and then purchased a home
at 113 Barclay Street, where they lived for many years, and
where Moritz ran a grocery store. In 1903, he and his two
foreign-born sons petitioned the Essex County Circuit Court to
change their surname legally
to Abrams.
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David |
Jacob |
Kate |
Mary |
Yetta |
Sam |
Pauline |
The children of Lena Liebman and Moritz
Abrams. Click on any image for a capsule biography.
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Lena was described
by those who remembered her as gentle and very sweet, and as
able to turn her husband "around her little finger." Every
Sunday the Abrams family congregated at their Barclay Street
home, where she cooked veal chops and chicken for them. She could
not read or write English, but spoke both German and Hungarian
and enjoyed having stories read to her.
Family tradition describes Moritz, Lena and their youngest
daughter Pauline, who was severely handicapped, as victims of the great influenza pandemic of
1918-1919, but vital records confirm their actual deaths took place in late 1920,
within days of one another. The three are buried in
Grove Street Cemetery in Irvington, New Jersey. |
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Lena Liebman Abrams,
undated tintype. Click to enlarge. |
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Click on any underlined words in the site for more information. For
acknowledgments and contact information, click
here. |
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Scott D. Seligman, 2007-2019.
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