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Iovnash GEFEN
(1813-)
Dreza
(1814-)
John KIER
(Bef 1812-Bef 1869)
Aria Tsvi GEFEN
(1830-1903)
Shifra KIER
(1832-1910)
Louis GEFFEN
(1868-1909)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Rose KUSHNER

2. Sophie SINGER

Louis GEFFEN 1

  • Born: Apr 1868, Ukmerge, Kaunas, [Lithuania], Russian Empire 2
  • Marriage (1): Rose KUSHNER
  • Marriage (2): Sophie SINGER in 1898
  • Died: Apr 25, 1909, Sioux City, Iowa at age 41 1
  • Buried: Mt. Sinai Cem, Sioux City, Iowa 1

   Other names for Louis were Eliezar and L GEFFEN.

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  Noted events in his life were:

1. Immigration, 1888. 2

2. Naturalization. 2

3. Residence, Jun 2, 1900, 517 Perry St., Sioux City, Iowa. 2 ED #162, sheet 3B.

4. Business, Jun 2, 1900, Sioux City, Iowa. 2 Louis was in the furniture business.

5. Legal Encounter, Oct 5, 1904, Sioux City, Iowa. 3 Mr. Fred J. Magerstadt found $700 worth of stolen rugs, from his store on Ashland Ave. in Chicago, in the store of Louis Geffen in Sioux City. Mr. Magerstadt was accompanied by Inspector Shippy of Chicago. There is no indication who the "suspected thieves" were, though they had been captured. There is also no indication how the police managed to track the rugs to Iowa.


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Louis married Rose KUSHNER.


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Louis next married Sophie SINGER, daughter of Unknown and BARRICKS, in 1898. (Sophie SINGER was born in Apr 1867 in Russia 2 and died on Oct 22, 1941 in Los Angeles County, Calif 4.)


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Sources


1 Marjorie Goldberg.

2 Sioux City, US Census, 1900.

3 Chicago Tribune, October 6, 1904.

4 http://www.vitalsearch-ca.com/gen/ca/_vitals/cadeathm.htm.


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