Samuel W. Levy Values Codes I – E – L – P Samuel W. Levy was born in the town of Haegen, Alsace, France in 1830. He was educated in college at Phalsbourg. In 1848, Samuel Levy came to America, at the age of 18, and peddled sponges in
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Read more →Rabbi Aron J. Messing Values Codes I – H – E – L Aron Messing was born in the Polish town of Argenau, in the province of Posen, in 1840. He came to the United States in 1866 and served Orthodox congregations in New York and
Read more →Moses A. Gunst Values Codes I – E – P One of the most beloved men in the history of San Francisco, Moses A. Gunst, was born in New York in 1853. San Francisco Moses Gunst moved to California in 1871. He went to work
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Read more →Morris Greenberg Values Codes I – E – L Morris Greenberg was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1823. As a young man, Greenberg left Poland and to become an apprentice in a foundry in Paris. There, he married Annette, and in 1851 they immigrated to America
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