Yehuda Leib HURWITZ ³

   Other names for Yehuda were Leib Shmuel Kreines, Leibel, Leyba GURVICH, Arie Leib HURWITZ, Louis HURWITZ, Mendel HURWITZ and Yehudah Leib HURWITZ.

  Research Notes:

Ingrid McWilliams has the descendants of Leib. She has Leib's date of death as 1943.

The census of 1900 has Leib's date of birth in January 1862. The cemetery record has 1860 as year of birth. ^{4 10}

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Residence, 1874, Vievis, Trakai, Vilnius, [Lithuania], Russian Empire. ⁹

2. Residence, Aug 1882, Home of Avraham Tanchum Saginor, Lithuania. ¹

3. Employment, Aug 1882. ¹ Leib was a guard at an orchard.

4. Residence, Oct 1882, Home of Shmuel Hurwitz, Vievis, [Lithuania]. ¹

5. Business, Feb 1883, Vievis, [Lithuania], Russian Empire. ¹ Leib was a peddler.

6. Relationship, Feb 1883, Vievis, [Lithuania], Russian Empire. ¹ Leib was courting Pearl Rine.

7. Business, Mar 1883, Vievis, [Lithuania], Russian Empire. ¹ Leib ran a store while continuing to peddle in the villages. He was apparently just learning Lithuanian.

8. Employment, Jul 1883, Vievis, [Lithuania], Russian Empire. ¹ Leib was back guarding orchards for four rubles a week.

9. Business, Jun 1884, Vievis, [Lithuania], Russian Empire. ¹ Leib was a peddler earning four rubles a day. He was excused from service in the Russian army at this time but still hadn't come up with the required 15 rubles.

10. Business, Mar 1885, Vievis, [Lithuania], Russian Empire. ¹ Leib was peddling dry goods.

11. Visit, Aug 1885, Kabeltsitz. ¹ Leib went to visit "Shmuel from Kobeltsits."

12. Residence, May 1886, Home of Shmuel Hurwitz, Vievis, [Lithuania]. ¹

13. Residence, Jun 1889, New York City. ^{1 10} Leib was stranded in New York without any money. The census of 1900 has 1889 as Leib's year of arrival.

14. Residence, 1890, St. Louis, Missouri. ¹

15. Residence, Jun 5, 1900, 1124 N 8th St., St. Louis, Missouri. ¹⁰ "Louis Horwiz" was a landlord.

16. Residence, Apr 23, 1910, 1124 N 8th St., St. Louis, Missouri. ¹¹ Leib was unemployed.

17. Residence, Sep 14, 1942, 1432 Montclair, St. Louis, Missouri. ⁶

18. Residence, Feb 1944, 5577 Ridge Ave., St. Louis. ⁷ Leib was a Hebrew teacher. This address is right around the corner from the earlier one.

Yehuda married Menucha Mariasha BLOOM, daughter of Mordecai Jacob BLOOM and Unknown, in 1885.¹ (Menucha Mariasha BLOOM was born in Sep 1864,⁵ died in 1904 ¹² and was buried in 1904 in Section 10, Chesed Shel Emeth Cem, St. Louis ⁸.)

Yehuda next married Channah Tzipa NOVACK, daughter of Velvil NOVACK and Liba Surah OGRUDOCK, on Feb 22, 1905.² (Channah Tzipa NOVACK was born in 1874 in Russian Empire,¹¹ died on Sep 14, 1942 in 1432 Montclair, St. Louis, Missouri ¹³ and was buried on Sep 15, 1942 in Section 14, Chesed Shel Emeth Cem, St. Louis ^{8 13}.)