Friday, February 1, 1957 Pioneering Role Claimed by Jonas Disproved by the Jewish Archives Joseph Jonas bragged that he was the first Jew to settle in the Ohio Valley and gloried in the role of pioneer. In Cincin- nati, where he long held the title as the city's only Jew, he wrote of himself in the third person: "Solitary and alone he remained for more than two years." But Dr. Jacob R. Marcus, di- rector of the American Jewish Archives, asserts that "No Jew is ever the first Jew anywhere ... there is always another who has been there before him." And with that statement, he intro- duces the story of Jonas Hor- witz, a new contender for Joseph Jonas's pioneering title. New material just acquired by the American Jewish Archives, a research center located on the Cincinnati campus of the He- brew Union College-Jewish In- stitute of Religion, sheds fresh light on Jonas Horwitz, the ver- satile Jewish physician and in- tellectual, and proves that he was there first, though he didn't stay. Recently - discovered records reveal that Horwitz was a Ger- man-Jewish immigrant, a jack- of-all trades and master of none. To judge by his name, he was a member of one of Europe's great rabbinical families, and he had an excellent Hebrew educa- tion. He received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1815, just three years after his arrival in Amer- ica. There is a strong likelihood that Horwitz helped finance - his medical education by edit- ing the first Hebrew Bible in America, a beautiful, two- volume work which sold at the then high price of $14. By 1816, Horwitz had started on his travels and there is docu- mented evidence of his arrival in Cincinnati. Pioneer Jonas arrived in 1817. Horwitz had crossed the Blue Ridge and the Alleghenies by stagecoach to Pittsburgh and had taken a keel boat down the river to Cincinnati. On arrival, he ad- vertised in the Liberty Hall and Cincinnati Gazette warning the good citizens of the coming of a smallpox epidemic which would carry off their children by the dozens—unless they turned to him for help. His advertisement proclaimed that he had some "genuine vaccine matter" which he had brought from Philadel- phia. An anonymous letter-writer, GET IT AT LEO ADLER AND SAVE MONEY! , 0 1 . e .„ 1172. The world's largest DeSOTO-PLYMOUTH - Dealer LEO ADLER UN. 3-7400 3 locations 3000 Fenkell W. of Livernois Woodward bik. N. of Grand Blvd. 7 Mile Rd. Just East of James Couzens probably a doctor, denounced Horowitz's alarmist statements in a later issue of the same pa- per. Whether for that reason or for some other, Horwitz de- cided not to stay in Cincinnati and returned to Philadelphia. By December of 1817, Horwitz had married Deborah Andrews, the granddaughter of the Am- erican Revolutionary patriot, Haym Salomon. Horwitz was not a money-maker; in addition to practicing medicine in Phila- delphia, he taught Hebrew. When in 1818, he heard that Thomas Jefferson was about to establish a university in Vir- ginia, Horwitz wrote to Jeffer- son's friend, Judge Thomas Cooper, asking him to intervene to get him a faculty post. The doctor wanted a job as professor of oriental languages. In a letter he wrote to Jefferson directly, he agreed to teach German as well. He never got the job. By the early 1820s, he was living in Baltimore. Years later, when the Mexican war broke out in the 1840s, he became the surgeon of a company of Jewish volunteers. Horwitz founded a family distinguished in American an- nals. His son, Dr. Jonathan Phineas Horwitz, headed the naval hospital at Tabasco dur- • ing the Mexican war and dur- ing the Civil War, he was per- sonal physician to Gideon Wells, Secretary of the Navy in Lincoln's cabinet. He was commended by Congress for his work with the United States Bureau of Medicine and Surgery to which he was named chief in 1865. Another direct descendant of Jonas Horwitz and Haym Salo- mon is the well-known diplomat and statesman, William Chris- tian Bullitt, Jr., former Ameri- can Ambassador to the Soviet Union and France. Mrs. Manning Heads Special Gifts Group Mrs. Lewis H. Manning will be chairman of the special gifts cabinet of the Allied kwish Campaign Wo- men's Division. Mrs. Man- n ing has n amed her cabinet and an- nounced that the special gifts section will hold. a briefing meet- ing Monday, Feb. 18, and a f u n d raising meeting Wed- Mrs. Manning nesday, Feb. 27. Mrs. Ben Jones and Mrs. Philip R. Marcuse are special gifts executive vice chairmen. Mrs. Leo Mellen, campaign vice- chairman, is Advisor to the cabinet. Mrs. Harry L. Jackson is workerg' briefing chairman. Prospect r e v i e w committee chairman is Mrs. Ben Mossman; assignments c h a i rman, Mrs. Nathan H. Schermer; Mrs. Nor- man J. LeVy, Vice-Chairman, and Mrs. Carl Wois, assistant. Special gifts secretary is Mrs. Harold Ehrlich. Mrs. Nathan N. Kaplan is a member-at-large of the special gifts cabinet. To Make Butzel Award at JWF's Meeting Tuesday Detroit Jewish community's achievements during the past year will be reviewed by Judge Theodore Levin, president of the Jewish Welfare Federation, at Federation's 31st annual meet- NCRAC Approves 'Ten Commandments' NEW YORK, (JTA) — "The Ten Commandments," Cecil B. deMille's latest venture in bibli- cal themes, has "positive com- munity relations values" for Jewry, apart from any criticisms that have been made on other grounds, according to the Na- tional Community Relations Ad- visory Council. A spokesman for the NCRAC, emphasizing that the coordinat- ing organization was not acting as a motion picture critic, said that the overall effect of the film was to portray the chil- dren of I s r a el as people of "enormous faith and determina- tion to endure much for the sake of their faith." The evaluation was made by the subcommittee on motion pictures of the NCRAC standing committee on mass media. • DR. W. J. WELLMAN Osteopathic Physician and Surgeon Announces the opening of an office in Detroit Suite 222, Farwell Building 1249 Griswold Detroit 26, Michigan Hours by Appointment WOodward 5-1381 PRACTICE LIMITED TO TREATMENT OF OBESITY Member of the National Glandular Society American College of Endocrinology and Nutrition THE MONEY YOU WORKED SO HARD FOR REALLY WORKS FOR YOU AT THIS NEW The Late Fred Butzel ing, 8 p.m., Tuesday, at the Es- ther Berman Branch of the United Hebrew Schools. Highlighting the meeting will be the seventh annual presenta- tion of the Fred M. Butzel Me- morial Award for outstanding communal leadership. The recip- ient of the award is selected by a committee consisting of presi- dents of Federation member agencies, the president of the Detroit Service Group and the president of the previous recip- ients of the award. The late Julian H. Krolik was honored with the initial pre- sentation of the Butzel Award in 1951. Henry Wineman, Judge W i 1 Hain Friedman, Abraham Srere, Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich and Samuel H. Rubiner re- ceived the 'awards in succeeding years. The names of award winners are inscribed on a bronze pla- que in the lobby of the Butzel Memorial Building. Nine members-at-large will be elected to Federation's 65= man board of governors at the meeting. Reports will be presented by John E. Lurie, 1956 Allied Jew- ish Campaign chairman, Fed= eration treasurer Max J. Zivian and Women's Division president Mrs. Lewis B. Daniels. 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