Kobey, Miriam Rachofsky, 1840-1921
Person
Samuel Abraham and Miriam Rachofsky married in Poland and later migrated to Manchester, England where the name was shortened to Kobey. Their daughter Rachel married Isaac Shwayder in Manchester. The Kobey family immigrated to New Jersey in about 1881 and then moved to Denver, Colorado in 1888. Miriam Kobey was a highly respected midwife in Denver, known as the "angel of mercy."
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
A Legacy of Caring : Early Colorado Jewish Women, 1860-1930, 2004
Item
Identifier: B230.03.0023.00003
Overview
Brief biographies of Jewish women from Colorado who help set up as well as work in charitable orgnazitions in Colorado. Written and directed by Jeanne Abrams for the 2004 RMJHS Dinner.
Dates:
2004
A Legacy of Healing: Early Colorado Jews in Medicine, 2005
Item
Identifier: B230.03.0023.00004
Overview
Brief biographies of Jewish men and women who contributed to medicine, the Jewish community, and Colorado. Contains historical photographs and interviews with people who knew some of the early key figures.
Dates:
2005
Abraham and Miriam Kobey with Son Benjamin, circa 1890
Item
Identifier: B063.05.0021.00070
Overview
Abraham Kobey sits in a chair in front of his home. Miriam Kobey and Benjamin Kobey (their son) stand beside him holding hands.
Dates:
circa 1890
Miriam Kobey, between 1910-1921
Item
Identifier: B063.08.0016.00034
Overview
Formal studio portrait of Miriam Kobey. She is wearing a white, collared shirt and a flowered hat.
Dates:
between 1910-1921
Miriam Rachofsky Kobey and Grandchildren, circa 1905
Item
Identifier: B100.03.0001.0003.00002
Overview
Miriam Rachofsky Kobey and her grandchildren (from left to right, Rebecca, Miriam holding Silas, Philip, and Leon) pose in front of an ivy-covered trellis in Aspen, Colorado. Immigrants Abraham and Miriam (Mary) Kobey began their life in Colorado in Central City. The devout couple became vegetarians for a time while living there because kosher meat transported from Denver often arrived spoiled. After they moved to Denver, Abraham worked as a rabbi and sofer, or scribe, and Miriam became a...
Dates:
circa 1905
Oral History Interview with Hannah Shwayder Berry, 1981 March 1
Item
Identifier: B098.01.0004.00084
Overview
Major subjects covered in the interview include the Shwayder and Kobey (originally Kobersky) families, immigrating to Colorado from Poland, Hannah Shwayder Berry’s grandmother Miriam "Mary" Kobey (a Denver midwife nicknamed the “Angel of Mercy”) and refers to book “The Tale of the Little Trunk”; a copy of the book can be found in the Beck Archives.
Dates:
1981 March 1
Shwayder Family Histories and Genealogical Material, 1967-2002
Series
Identifier: B245.02
Scope and Contents
The series includes 20th-century materials detailing Shwayder family history. including two copies of the book "The Tale of a Little Trunk and Other Stories" by Hannah Shwayder Berry (1977 and 2002), a transcript of an oral history by Hannah Shwayder Berry (1981), a newspaper clipping of Hannah Shwayder Berry's story The 'pied piper' of West Colfax (1967), and a booklet describing the genealogy of the Shwayder family that includes family members born as early as 1876 and as late as 1943. There...
Dates:
1967-2002
Shwayder Family Papers and Samsonite Corporation Records
Collection
Identifier: B245
Overview
The Shwayder family of Denver, Colorado, is best known for the luggage company Samsonite Corporation, which the family founded and operated. Isaac and Rachel Shwayder had migrated from Manchester, England to Colorado in 1881 and eventually settled in Denver. In 1910 their son, Jesse Shwayder, opened a small luggage factory in Denver with his father along with his brothers Mark, Maurice, Benjamin, and Solomon Shwayder. The company started as Shwayder Trunk Manufacturing Company, was later...
Dates:
1896-2002
Ted and Jessie Shwayder Harsham Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: B101
Overview
Jessie Shwayder Harsham (named after her grandfather) is a descendant of the Shwayder family, one of the first Jewish families to settle in Colorado. Her husband, Ted E. Harsham, digitized many of the extended family photographs. The first member of the extended family, Abraham Rittmaster, arrived in Colorado in the early 1860s and encouraged other family members, including the Rachofskys, Kobeys, and Shwayders to join him in his successful dry goods enterprise in Central City, Colorado. Some...
Dates:
1880-2006