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Full Farber descendancy is here. Some details follow...
Ruth's parents were Laura Hibel and Isidore Farber. Isidore was born around 1887 and died around 1926. His father's name may have been Carl or Kalman.
Ruth has a brother named Carl. Carl's wife is Gloria.
Ruth's father Isidore had a brother named Solomon and a sister
named Yetta.
Yetta Farber married Hyman Loeb. They
had children named Etta and Samuel. Yetta was born in the 1880s.
When Yetta Farber and Isidore Farber died (in the 1920s and 1926,
respectively), my great-grandmother Laura and Hyman Loeb married each other.
Solomon/Sol Farber may have gone by "Sal Farbio". He lived near Boston for a long time, where he and his wife ran an Italian grocery in the Salem Street area. Sol's wife's maiden name was Helen Streichler. Sol would have been born in the 1880s or so; he was alive as of around 1945 - my grandparents visited them in Boston around that time. Solomon died November 20, 1964. Sol and Helen had two daughters, Pauline and Florence, a son named Albert, and at least ten grandchildren.
Pauline married a man by the last name of Cutler; Florence, a man named Arthur Barbash.
The story is that Sol was an Italian POW in WWI. He got a job as ship's cook and became fluent in Italian. The ship got to Boston; he jumped off and stayed there to live. I have no idea when or where he got married. His wife supposedly spoke some Italian.
Linns (a stamp collecting organization) has a general but very interesting web page regarding POW mail over the years. Apparently there were special postcards that many POWs were given during WWI and WWII.
AFAIK, none of these Farbers is related to the Harry Farber who's just turned up in my Nozick/Newman branch on my father's side, but it'll take me a while to be sure.
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