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Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)

 Organization

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Ruth Cluff, 1978-1979

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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

Solomon Herbert Bassow, 1894-circa 1980

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Identifier: B111.01.0001.0021
Abstract

Born in Russia, Bassow emigrated to New York in 1906, eventually moving to Wyoming where his family briefly were homesteaders and he taught in a one-room schoolhouse. Later he graduated from the University of Colorado Medical School.

Dates: 1894-circa 1980