Top row: Danny Pullman, Steven Pullman, Bob & Carol Kugler, unknown, Sidney Pullman, Jack Daly, Robert Kanofsky

Bottom row: Florence Pullman, Izzie & Bessie Pullman, Henrietta Daly, Joanne Kanofsky

In front Robin & Debbie Kanofsky

An Apparent Minsk Connection

Jonah Pullman and Jacob Rosenberg apparently belonged to a Minsker Landmannschaft - the "Minsker Independent Old Men's Benevolent Association." Jonah and Ida are buried in Beth David (Queens, NY) in that Landmannschaft's section. Likewise for Jacob and Rachel but in Montefiore (also Queens). Most apt explanation is that they lived in the province of Minsk. Possibly Jonah and Ida met and married there and subsequently moved to the Ukraine. According to the 1900 US census they were married 12 years. A wild guess is that the surname Polewsky is derived from the village of Polevtsy, which is 72 miles south of the city of Minsk (and in Minsk province).

Pullman Family c1955

Standing: Eddie, Jean (nee Roth) , Paul , Al Bernstein (Dora's 2nd husband), Izzie, Henry Siegal, Anna (nee Javitz), Sam

Sitting: Dorothy, Millie, Dora, Bessie (nee Feigensohn), Minnie

Simon & Fruma with (L to R) Henrietta, Anna, & Sally

Sally was born in June, 1891 so this must have been taken late 1891/early 1892. Henrietta was 4 and Anna 2.

Simon Cohen & His Brothers

L to R: Ike, Simon, Harris Seated: Moishe

Muriel Cestare

REVERAND, Muriel Muriel Cestare Reverand died on December 25, 2010 in the Laramie Care Center after a long illness. She was born on December 5, 1916, in Brooklyn, NY, the daughter of Dr. Anthony Lloyd Cestare and Rae Cohen Cestare, the oldest of their four children. She attended public schools in New York, and then Adelphi College, from which she graduated, first in her class, in 1941. While in college, she had a part-time job as editorial assistant to the dancer Ted Shawn (founder of Jacob's Pillow), who was working on a book and was sufficiently impressed with Muriel's editing skills that he wanted her to accompany him to Paris where he intended to finish his book over the summer. Muriel being about nineteen, the year being about 1935, Paris being Paris, her mother did not let her go, which she lamented for decades. In June of 1941, Muriel married Cedric D. Reverand, with whom she had a son, Cedric D. Reverand II. During the war, the family moved to Hartford, CT, when Cedric Sr. began working as an engineer and design analyst for Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. They moved into the John Hooker House, a historic mansion built in 1853, whose luxurious parlors and bedrooms had been divided up into apartments; Mark Twain had lived in the Hooker House in 1871 while his own dream house, one block away in Hartford, was being built. In the late 1940s, Muriel took a job as an actuary at the Aetna Life Insurance Company, the only female actuary in the company, and eventually became head of the group actuarial department, until her retirement in the late 1970s. When Cedric retired from Pratt & Whitney, he and Muriel began alternating between winters spent in a house they had built in Bloomfield, Connecticut, and summers in Weybridge, England, their base for extensive touring, including every British cathedral, every great country house, and every castle imaginable, summer after summer. And in 1977, Muriel finally got to go to Paris. In the early 1980s, Cedric and Muriel moved to Perkasie, Pennsylvania, where Cedric died in 1987; in 2004, when Muriel's health began to fail, her family moved her to Laramie. When Muriel lived in Connecticut, she regularly traveled to New York to see Broadway musicals, which she loved; later, when she summered in England, she simply started going to London to see musicals. She could play piano by ear—her mother had been a movie-theater pianist in the days of silent movies—and she knew literally hundreds of songs, and all the words. The one sport she really enjoyed was baseball: the Dodgers, when she, and they, were in New York (but never the Yankees); the Mets when she lived in Hartford; the Rockies when she moved to Wyoming. She was a crossword puzzle fanatic; she usually completed the New York Times daily crossword, and all the Sunday puzzles, including the double crostic and the puns & anagrams. In her prime, she was an inveterate reader. She astounded the Bloomfield librarians by regularly checking out six books at a time, and returning them two days later—she generally read three books a day—working her way through stacks of mysteries, and most of the bestseller list. She was extremely smart, very funny, and not the least bit sentimental. Muriel is survived by her son, Cedric D. Reverand II of Laramie; she outlived all three of her siblings. At Muriel's request no services will be held and cremation has taken place. To send condolences or sign the on-line guest book, go to www.montgomerystryker.com.

Frances Rosenberg

A 1917/1918 New York Times article.

Frances Rosenberg. 509 E136th St.

Age 17. Weight 125 lbs. Been in the Bronx 7 years. A decided blonde. Attended PS4 and graduated from PS132, then took a course in commercial training. Is an efficient stenographer and typewriter. She is fond of music and a reader of fiction. Poses for moving pictures and as a model occasionally. Expert dancer and delights in swimming. She has an aquatic record. Received commendations on her elocution. Has a receptive mind, can memorize lengthy lines with ease. Very methodical and systematic. Raised in a Hebrew home among a large family of actual business people. Does not know what an idle moment is. When she is not at her place of employment she is exercising and enjoying fresh air.

Her sisters Minnie and Ida were also blondes. I guess that came from their mother.

"..large family of actual business people"?

"Age 17." Frances was born 26 Jul 1900 so this article must be from 1917/1918

"Been in the Bronx 7 years...Attended PS4 and PS132" Frances immigrated in December, 1910 and initially stayed with the Pullman family at 450 E175th Street. PS4 and PS132 are within a mile of that address so it appears the Rosenberg family was in that neighborhood up until the publication of this article.