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Eisendrath Stories The
traces of an emigration from Dorsten/Germany to Chicago/U.S.A. |
Only thieves and murderers emigrate to America”
was what people said about emigrants in the middle of the 19th century.
This is not true of the Eisendrath family but indirectly it was
a theft that made Nathan Eisendrath decide to leave Dorsten, a small
town in Westphalia.
Nathan Eisendrath was born on 7 January
1823 in Dorsten. He was the eighth child of Julia and Samson Nathan
Eisendrath. For some years he attended the Petrinum Secondary School
for Boys in Dorsten and then he learnt the profession of merchant
at his father’s family business. At a young age he borrowed
money form his parents and together with a partner he founded his
own firm. The partnership did not last long; after just a short
time the partner, whose name was Bettinger, deceived him and fled
with 3.000 marks. He was not found. Nathan suffered financial losses
and great economic problems. He was unable to repay his parents
the money he had borrowed. In 1848 after disagreements with his
father Nathan took the boat from Rotterdam to emigrate to New York.
This website
allocates stories from a widely spread family, emigrated in th 19th
century from Dorsten/Germany to the USA. A research group in Dorsten,
linked to the Jewish Museum of Westphalia, is collecting the traces
of this family. Till now our mosaic
of Eisendrath stories remains fragmentary; we hope to supplement
it within the next years. - If You can contribute anything to our
research, please contact us!
Nathan Eisendrath’s “Oath of Allgiance”
to the USA
(With friendly permission of www.ancestry.de)
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