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SAUL ABENSON.
Mr. Saul Abenson of Miami, Fla., is still on the right side
of thirty, having been born on the 15th of April, 1883. His
cradle stood on Russian soil and he calls Borisov, in the old
government of Minsk, his birthplace. He is the descendant of a
Rabbinical family, his parents being Simeon and Elke Eva Abenson,
both dead at the present writing. Saul Abenson landed in New York during the year 1905. Some months afterwards he went to Philadelphia, and before the year was over he boarded a trans-Atlantic steamer and went to Norway, and before another year he was again on American soil, this time in Georgia peddling merchandise and then engaging in the grocery business. In 1908 he first went to Florida, settling in Miami in 1911. Mr. Abenson is engaged in the sale of dry goods, under the firm name of the Chicago Bargain Store, at 300 Avenue G, Miami, Fla. When Mr. Abenson first arrived in America he was on the Russian army list, having been just ordered to the front, in the late Russo-Japanese War. When he attempted to cross the border, twelve bullets were fired at him, and it took him forty-five days to land on these shores. Mr. Abenson was married, on the 10th of January, 1912, to Lena Gelfman, born in Russia, and there are two children of this marriage, Samuel and Gladys. He is a Talmud student of note and a member of the local congregation. |
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