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Persoonlijke gegevens Albert Moritz 

• Hij is geboren op 25 oktober 1862 in Kepno, Wlkp., Poland.
• Hij is overleden januari 1952 in New York City, New York, USA, hij was toen 89 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Moritz Moses Moritz en Pesse Pauline Kalischer

Gezin van Albert Moritz

Hij is getrouwd met Elsie Rosenbaum.

Zij zijn getrouwd december 1891 te Jamaica Plain, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA, hij was toen 29 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Mercedes Irene Moritz  1895-1977 
2. Arthur Mars Moritz  1897-1991
3. Sydney Moritz  1897-1993
4. Ralph Moritz  1897-± 1898

Notities over Albert Moritz

Albert Moritz, was born in Kepno, Wlkp., Poland , Silesia, Poland, onOctober 20, 1862, into a family of modest merchants. He was strictly educated in a Prussian HighSchool (high school), and was proud to retain many compulsory memorized facts of history, mathematics, Latin and Greek to the end of his long life. In 1880, he faced compulsory military service in the Imperial German army when he reached eighteen. The German army was harsh (but not murderous) to Jews, and his economic prospects in Kepno, Wlkp., Poland were modest. So he emigrated to America. He later declared that he should have come in the steerage and therefore become rich, but that hed spoiled his future by coming second class. He never returned to Germany or saw any member of his family there again. Ellis Island was not yet open in 1880, so his ship landed in Manhattan, in the evening. As he carried his bags to some nearby room, not one but two rival political parades, Democratic and Republican, jammed and jostled each other down lowest Broadway, shouting curses and brandishing their flaming torches at each other, for it was the fall of the presidential race in which Garfield was elected. He recorded wondering if his relatives fears that he was going to a savage country were not justified.
In 1893, I believe, Albert and Elsie Moritz took up the opportunity to go to Guatemala, where other Rosenbaums were already established, as businessmen in the capital and as coffee planters in the provinces. (Guatemala then welcomed German immigrants, Christians and Jews alike, to develop the economy.) Albert established a dry-goods business in Guatemala City, buying coffee from the planters and rubber from the tropical Indians in great balls, he said, which he would chop in two with a machete to expose and get rid of the stones the Indians had put in to increase the weight. He imported chiefly American dry-goods, including arms and ammunition. There were earthquakes and revolutions (good for the arms trade, !). Once, he claimed, he got home across a plaza in which a battle was raging by telling first one side and then the other that he was with them. He was never sentimental about exotic Guatemala.

Obit The New York Times:Albert Moritz of 587 Riverside Drive, former Trader adventurer in Latin America and Retired New York business man, died on Sunday in the Lexington Hospital. His age was 89. Mrr Moritz came to the USA from his native Germany in 1880. From 1894 to 1902 he traveled on foot and by mule to sell his wares, particularly in Guatemala. He returned to this country in 1902 and until 1925 had his own drygoods business. Later he worked for the textile firm of Neuss Hesslein & Co., Inc., from which he Retired in 1942. He was a member of the Social Scientific Society of New York, founded by Carl Shoerz in 1870. Mrl Moritz served on its Board of Governors for many years and was treasurer at his death. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. John H. Randall Jr.; two sons, Sidney of Tappan, N. Y., and Arthur M. of Scarsdale, and four grandsons.

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