Harris Family Documents & Photographs

 

Photographs of people:

Florence Steefel Harris

Florence Steefel Harris with her grandson, James W Cook Jr.

Benjamin Harris looking dashing...

Benjamin Harris portrait

Benjamin Harris with friends (at college?)

Benjamin Harris with brother Manny (Manville)

Benjamin Harris 1906 High School class photo

The wedding of Margaret Harris and Reid Ewing

Margaret and Caryl Harris, young sisters

Reid Ewing and Margaret Harris Ewing, with daughter Connie

 

Documents:

Birth record for Florence Stiefel 26 Jan 1890

Marriage certificate for Benjamin Harris and Florence Steefel

Marriage record for Julius Stiefel and Carie Brunswick

Death certificate for Julius Stiefel

Death certificate for Carrie Brunswick Stiefel

Death certificate for Mina Brunswick

Death certificate for Yetta Brunswick

Death notice for Carrie Steefel, Mina Brunswick, and May Levy

Newspaper obits for Harry Harris and Manville Harris

Newspaper obits for Julius and Jacob Tumposky

Newspaper obits for Muriel Bonnett and Bertha Snyder

Will of Fanny Brunswick, written 23 May 1891, died 27 Apr 1900

1860 naturalization papers for Solomon Brunswick

1855 naturalization oath record for Solomon Brunswick of Prussia

1856 naturalization record for Jacob Stiefel of Hessen, witnessed by Jacob Altmann and Joseph Steefel

1853 Jacob Stiefel oath of naturalization

 

Information about places:

Jacob & Mary Steefel (Steifel) reportedly came from Kassel, Hesse Germany: map 1, map 2

Meyer Tumpowsky (Harris) came to the US from Lithuania: map 1, map 2

Prewar Jewish Lithuania Map (the star is marking the Tumpowsky village of residence)

Some background information about the Lithuanian village of the Tumpowsky family

Temple Adath Yeshurun

Temple B'rith Kodesh in Rochester