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Agreements between AMC Cancer Research Center and Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society at DU.

Abstract Jacob Fleischer (1846/7-?, Ancestry.com) was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States between 1865 and 1870. He was naturalized in 1871, in Morgan County, Illinois. In 1882, Fleischer married Rosa Harthleimer (sp?) Fleischer in Colorado. Jacob purchased a parcel of seven lots in Denver on what is now stretching from Alameda north down Leyden. Fleischer appears to have worked with the Denver Brewing Company, and he went on a trip to California in 1899 to visit the California Wine...

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Documents - two Warranty Deeds 1900 for Bunker Hill Lode, 1897 lease for mining property (200 feet), Revised mine location - 1900 (all in Gilpin County)

Abstract As did most Jewish families, Paul Michael and his wife Bessie Radetsky Saliman settled on the west side near Sloan's Lake in 1886. Paul Michael pushed a cart through the alleys of Denver collecting rags and junk to re-sell, finally developing a business of collecting, cleaning and recycling milk bottles for local dairies. Michael Saliman was a leader of west Denver and when he died in 1910 it was said that "all of West Colfax shut down." Collection contains family tree that covers 1873-1981,...

Abstract Samuel Cohen (1845-?) was born in Wloclawek, Warsaw, Poland, and immigrated to New York City in 1866. In 1873, Cohen went west to Denver on the advice of a friend. He found little opportunity in Denver, and went south to Pueblo, where he stayed for a short time. Upon finding little opportunity in Pueblo as well, Cohen traveled to Fairplay, Colorado (in Park County) entirely on foot, where he finally settled. Cohen became one of Fairplay's leading merchants, and invested heavily in mining...