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Persoonlijke gegevens Morris Eisner 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1848 in Kepno, Wlkp., Poland.
• Geïmmigreerd in het jaar 1862 vanuit Gilroy, California, USA.
• Beroepen:
• in het jaar 1874 in cigar maker, San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten.
• in het jaar 1870 in cigar maker, San Jose &, San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten.
• in het jaar 1886 in M.Eisner &, Co, Cigar factory, 215-217 Sacramento St, at Davis &, Font, San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten.
• Hij is overleden op 13 oktober 1888 in Business trip, Astoria, Oregon, hij was toen 40 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Nissel Eisner en Rebecka Weiskopf

Gezin van Morris Eisner

Hij is getrouwd met Sarah Goldstein.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 24 juni 1874 te Gilroy, California, USA, hij was toen 26 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Benjamin Milford Eisner  1875-1964
2. Deobrah Eisner  1876-1970
3. Abraham Lowell Eisner  1878-1943
4. Norma Eisner  1880-1955
5. Helen Eisner  1883-1951
6. Elsie Eisner  1888-1978 

Notities over Morris Eisner

17-year old Solomon Eisner left Posen for the United States around 1855. Some time after arriving in the U.S. he made his way to San Jose, CA., not easily done in those days before the Transcontinental Railroad. He became a naturalized citizen in 1860. While living in San Jose, he was a founder, and first secretary, of the Bikur Cholim Society. In 1862 he brought his 15-year old half-brother, Morris Eisner, to San Jose. In May 1867, Solomon boarded a steamer in San Francisco bound for Panama on the first leg of a long journey back to Poland. I cannot figure out why a man who fled the difficult life of a Jew in 19th century Poland, who had to have found a much better life in California, USA, free from the anti-Semitism of Europe, chose to return.
Seven years after Morris left for the United States, his youngest sister, Cucilie was born.
In 1874 Morris, married Sarah Goldstein in Gilroy, CA. They had six children, the youngest of whom was Elsie, my paternal grandmother. Morris died just six months after Elsie was born.

Morris Eisner joined his brother, Solomon, in San Jose, CA sometime in 1865-66. Shortly afterwards, Solomon moved back to Posen and never returned to America. Morris made cigars in San Jose and then in Gilroy. While living in Gilroy in 1874, he married Sarah Goldstein. They had six children, some born in Gilroy and the youngest two born in San Francisco. Their youngest child was my paternal grandmother. I do not know which of the men in the picture was Morris but a relative thinks it is the man in the front row at the far right.
Morris opened this cigar business in 1882, originally at 228 Front St, just around the corner from the Sacramento St. address. He is listed in the city directory as a cigar manufacturer and a dealer in leaf tobacco.
There were many cigar makers in San Francisco in this area as ir was close to the docks where the tobacco arrived on ships. It was also close to Chinatown as many of the factories employed Chinese workers to make the cigars.
In the year that Morris moved San Francisco, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed which prevented most Chinese (and later all Asian) immigration into the United States. That legislation was long sought in California where it was thought that Chinese labor was cheaper and taking jobs from white people.
There was a push to remove all Chinese from the cigar factories. Morris placed an ad in the San Francisco Examiner in November 1885 seeking, “Fifty White skilled cigar makers.” Later that month M. Eisner & Co was among the cigar makers who met as the White Cigarmakers Association of the Pacific Coast to seek help in bringing white cigar makers from the East to San Francisco. In December a deal was completed with the Cigarmakers International Union of America to replace Chinese workers with white workers from the East. M. Eisner & Co. committed to hiring ten new workers. In addition, the agreement allowed the participating companies to use a special label promoting the lack of Chinese workers.

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