I have more people pictures as we wrap up in New Haven. Next week for those.
Today we went back to the Jewish Historical Society to look at some more materials. A little thrashing around. Mary Ann looked at city directories and we established that Maier really did live at 41 Cherry Street until 1870. I looked at Mishkan Israel and Horeb Lodge materials and copied mostly histories and programs from special lodge events.
We went directly to the cemetery which was nearby. I always get a little teary at my parent’s graves. We also looked at the family sites. All those men who were involved in the first years of the Horeb Lodge and Mishkan Israel, they’re still there and all still all together. Now in eternal sleep. We put rocks on the stones for my parents, grandparents, Delia and Maier Z. Also swapped out the letterbox book.
Then we at a famous cheese place that had really big grilled cheese sandwiches.
Off to the rich person’s historical society. The New Haven Museum Museum and Historical society. Beautiful brick building that they had built for themselves in 1920. The archivist helpful. As always, he can’t believe Cherry Street. I tell him where I think it was. He looks up old atlases and maps. Sure enough, there it was running from State to Wooster. Was it originally Cherry Street and renamed to Wooster? Just that one section that is now long gone? Mary Ann continues to look a directories, no doubt about it, he shows up on Cherry Street.
They offer me the catalog for Mishkan Israel. I order up some folders with histories and planning for the new Orange Street Temple. Maier doesn’t have much of a footprint at Mishkan Israel though he was long term Treasurer and must have been involved in the new temple in 1896. I saw a reference that the temple had asked Zunder to write a history which would be placed in the cornerstone. I had taken a picture of that cornerstone.
Dennis and Mary Ann are getting restless, they’re tired of all this.
I go through the folders. It occurs to me….wouldn’t it be great to find something in Maier’s own writing?
The very last piece of paper I pick up in a folder of records in regards to Mishkan Israel and the new Temple. A handwritten note from March 1888 where a group of the temple Board members agree to borrow $720 from Maier Zunder. The names are crossed out indicating that the loan was paid.
The Board members sign their names including Paul Weil (another great great grandfather) and the always present Max Adler. I believe that Maier signed the outside of the Note and also wrote the text of the Note. Maier’s hand.
I just realized something. That handwriting looks SO familiar. You know why? I think that’s the handwriting that labels the articles in the scrapbooks. Maier kept his own scrapbooks. I just realized that.
So I was thinking that I wanted to have something in Maier’s own handwriting. And I had it all the time…..
You just never never know.
Scan if the inside and outside of the note.
Why were they borrowing the money? I have no idea. 1888 is substantially before the new temple in 1896.
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