Messing, Joseph, 1886-1925
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Biography
Joseph Messing was born in Poland in 1886, arrived on Ellis Island via the S.S. St. Louis on November 5, 1905 and died November 27, 1925. He was married in 1906 to Mollie Speisman. Joseph Messing was a patient at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society.
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Patient Joseph Messing at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1925
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Identifier: B002.04.0348.00001
Abstract
Joseph Messing sits on a small table at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). He is wearing a cable-knit shawl collar sweater over his shirt and tie. Originally from Poland, he immigrated to the United States on November 5, 1905. Joseph Messing worked in New York City as a cutter, contracted tuberculosis there, and was a patient at the JCRS from December 24, 1923 to February 19, 1924, and from March 30 to June 24, 1925. He died November 27, 1925 in Queens, New York, survived by...
Dates:
circa 1925