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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Passport information found by Konnor Petersen January 2023:
Issued from St. Petersburg, Merchant's Council, January 13, 1905.
Leonard Abramovich Herzenberg.
St. Petersburg, Second merchant guild
Born December 28, 1871
Jewish
Place of permanent residence: St. Petersburg
Married
Dismissed from military service.
Medium height, Fair or blond hair. No special marks.
Passport issued on the basis of "estate." St. Petersburg Merchant's Council Certificate of the 2nd guild issued January 10, 1905 for 10 58.
Signed by Leonard January 12, 1905.
Lists wife as Matilda Benyaminova (Venyaminova), age 27, and son Georgii born 9 Feb. 1899.
2. Certificate of Merchant Status found by Konnor Petersen Jan. 2023 associated with passport documents.
Dated 5 Jan 1905. Dues were current for guild.
Lists wife as Matilda Benyaminova, and son Georgii born 9 Feb. 1899.
2. Ancestry.com's "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957" arriving on the ship "St. Paul" 28 May 1920 which departed from Cherbourg France: George Herzenberg, 21, male, single, bank clerk, reads and writes, Russian nationality, Israelite race, b. in Paris France, nearest relative in country of origin: Father Leonard Herzenberg, 7 Rue Anatolede la Forge in Paris, France, final destination: New York, NY. [Even though he says he was born in Paris France, the index says Petrograd, which would be the Soviet name for St. Petersburg.]
3. Website of Peter Bruce Herzenberg of London, England (since relocated to South Africa). Website is no longer functioning as of 7 Aug 2007. Copies of much of his data from the website in my possession. He indicates references by codes, which pertain to the original source and file held in his database, which I have not seen. I have no key to the sources except HL is Leonardo Herzenberg, HG is Gail Herzenberg, PC is probably Piltene Cemetery records, LA is probably Latvian Archives, FA is probably Aleksandrs Feigmanis (Latvian researcher hired by Harold Hodes), and YL is Len Yodaiken (Israeli researcher hired by Harold Hodes); however, he lists the main researchers and their contributions in a lengthy report which I include in full in the notes of the earliest Herzenberg of this database. In regards to this individual:
HL 108/041 shows Leo b. Mitau, d. St. Petersburg, md. to Matja.
Bank Director.
BIOGRAPHY:
1. 28 Jul 2007 Http://www.herzenberg.net/leo/htmlrh/Content.html copyrighted by Leo Herzenberg:
"An meinen Sohn (To my son) Leonhard Herzenberg von (from) Robert Herzenberg. Memoirs written during the 1940's." Translated during the 1990's by Leonardo (Leonhard) Herzenberg. The entire memoir is quite lengthy and included in its entirety in my notes with Joseph Herzenberg, the original known ancestor, in this database. The following is only the portion dealing with this part of the family:
"... When Uncle Abraham died the eldest son, Leo, was married in Petersburg. Also the daughter Fanny. Laura and Alice were married in Moscow, and Sophie in Mitau. At home were Ludwig, [44] in the firm, Harry who was still in the gymnasium, and the two girls, Roberta, of my age, and Klara, a little older. Ludwig, whom the mother worshipped, took over running the business. Harry entered the business as an apprentice. Ludwig decided on moving the business to Riga, why I don't know. The beautiful old house in Mitau was sold. Everything in Mitau was liquidated. Instead of the princely living in Mitau, aunt Therese moved into an old dark rental house on the Schwimmstrasse in Riga. I believe she had no happy time there. I don't know how Ludwig ruined the business so quickly. It ended when I was on a vacation trip to Germany in the summer of 1904, when I received the news from my father that I should visit aunt Therese in Berlin. [45] I met her, with Klara and Roberta, in a shabby room of a pitiful pension near the Elsasser gate. They had just had lunch, which consisted of a can of sardines with bread. The firm Abraham Herzenberg in Riga had failed. They had lost everything, and had fled to Germany, and were totally dependent on the support of children and siblings...
...LEO Herzenberg, the eldest son of uncle Abraham, lived in Petersburg as a bank director. his wife Matja was a very fashionable woman, and it was not a good marriage. They had a son, Goga, who was a flyer in the first world war, and then went to the states. I met Leo in Berlin after the war in a fancy hotel, and he also visited me in Hamburg. He was marred for a second time, but I did not meet his wife. [46] They had a very pretty daughter who was raised from birth like a princess. Leo had lived in Paris and Switzerland before the second world war, and supposedly things went badly for him at the end."
SOURCES_MISC:
1. Leonardo Herzenberg http://www.herzenberg.net/
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
1871 - Aft 1940 (> 70 years)
