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Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

From Cotopaxi to Denver: Immigrant Jewish Farmers Become American Urban Community Leaders, 2010

 Item
Identifier: B230.03.0023.00009
Abstract

History of the ill-fated Cotopaxi Colony of Jewish immigrants in Colorado. Brief biographies of the families involved and their contribution to Denver and Colorado after they left the colony.

Dates: 2010

Ruth Cluff, 1978-1979

 File
Identifier: B111.02.0002.0006
Abstract

Ruth Cluff (1912-1990), wrote an account of her grandmother Devoira Brox Lassett's (1864-1940) immigration to the United States from Poland in 1890. Cluff's mother Bertha came to Denver from New York in 1927 to receive treatment for Tuberculosis at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society.

Dates: 1978-1979