Texas Jewish Pioneers

Adolphus Sterne, Early Pioneer and Patriot of Nacogdoches, Texas

Adolphus Sterne Values Codes  I – E – L – P Adolphus Sterne was born in Cologne, on the Rhine, in 1801.   Along the way . . . Adolphus Sterne arrived in America, in 1817, landing in New Orleans. He clerked in a store and read

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Rabbi Henry Cohen: Pioneer Rabbi of Galveston and “Chief” Rabbi of Texas

Rabbi Henry Cohen Values Codes  I – H – E – L – P   “The First Citizen of Texas.” — Woodrow Wilson “The Prime Minister of American Jewry.” — Rabbi Stephen S. Wise   Henry Cohen was born in London in 1863, the youngest of seven children

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Henry Jacob Labatt: Pioneer Jewish Lawyer During His Texas Years

Henry Jacob Labatt – The Texas Years Values Codes  I – H – E – L – P Henry Labatt was born in New Orleans in 1832. He was educated at Yale and at the University of Louisiana. He moved to Galveston, Texas from San Francisco in

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Calvert, Texas, Jewish Pioneers, 1873 – 1880

  Jewish Pioneers of Calvert Texas, 1883 – 1880   Calvert, Texas is located somewhat east of the geographical center of Texas. The Jewish community of Calvert first came to national attention in 1874, when the Jewish Benevolent Society of Calvert sent an article to The American Israelite of Cincinnati

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A View of Central Texas Jewry, 1875

Central Texas Jewry, 1875 Compiled from an article in The American Israelite, Cincinnati, Ohio, written by “L” and published on November 2, 1875.   “After leaving Dallas, the towns are small, and although thriving, the Israelites are usually too few in number to form congregations. In most places

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Early Jewish Brownsville, Texas & Matamoros, Mexico – Border Towns, 1876 & 1882

Jewish Views of Brownsville, Texas & Matamoros, Mexico Benjamin B. Kowalski, later Mayor of Brownsville, writing in 1876: “Brownsville is located on the Rio Grande and has a population of 4,000 souls, a college and several churches. Matamoros, Mexico, directly opposite Brownsville has a population of about

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