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An incredible well preserved metal plate photograph from 1870, taken in New York City of my Great Grandfather Benjamin Nathan (on the right) and his father Charles Nathan. Benjamin was born in Germany, in November of 1845, and was the father of my grandmother, Blanche Rose (Nathan) Hesslein. Benjamin married Henrietta Bach in 1880. Henrietta was born in August of 1847 in Easton, Pennsylvania and with Benjamin they had four children: Winifred 'Winnie,' Sadie, Blanche Rose and Edwin Nathan. Benjamin owned the firm, the Nathan Novelty Manufacturing Company in New York City and ran the company till he passed in February of 1910 in Brooklyn. He is buried at Union Field Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens County, New York. Henrietta passed on March 1st 1930, at 45 Washington Avenue in Lawrence, Long Island, NY. She was living at the home of her daughter, Sadie (Nathan) and her husband Seymour Ripin. Henrietta is buried next to her husband, Benjamin, at the Union Field Cemetery, in Queens. Charles Nathan was born in Prussia in 1822 and emigrated to America aboard the S.S. Bremen Barth Kosonos. He left the Port of Bremen, Germany and headed West over the Atlantic for his new Homeland. The Kosonos arrived on January 9th, 1855 in New York Harbor. Charles had begun his journey in Prussia and then Germany where he had raised a family. By the time he and his wife, Sarah (Baruch) Nathan born in 1824, also born in Prussia, had their sixth child, they were ready for a change. They had come to the conclusion it was time to seek new options in the West. Both had heard the stories, from fellow co-workers of Charles, that America, was indeed the land of opportunity. Charles was 36 years old, Sarah was 34 years old at the time, when he boarded a ship in Bremen for the West. Charles would head out first to America and get things settled, before Sarah and the children would join him in New York City. What was written by a clerk in the ship registry, for Charles's profession, was 'Merchant,' would serve him well for the rest of his life in the states. Charles and Sarah would have two more children in America. Charles became successful in America, and he and his family did well in those many years of the 19th Century. Generations of Nathan's followed, and off-shoots of the Nathan's continued to flourish through the 20th Century and now into the 21st Century. Images here on the 'Family Archive Project,' attest to those facts. Charles Nathan passed on December 23rd, 1899 and Sarah passed in 1880, both in New York City. Sarah and Charles are buried at the Union Field Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens County, New York.
Great Grandfather Benjamin's siblings and the children of Charles and Sarah Nathan are: Appreciation to Julie R. Evans of Yupaica, California for her considerable help on specific history of the Erickson/Nelson/Hesslein/Nathan/Bach families. Julie is my cousin by way of her second cousin, once removed and our Great Aunt Roma M. Wirt (Summers) Nelson. Roma is the wife of Sture Albin Nelson, who is the older brother of my Grandmother Clara Amelia (Nelson) Erickson. |
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