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them, for they had become really old
changed when David settled in
people before their time."
America. Mark Rosenholz believes
The blind son, Harry, continued to
this likely was in honor of a family
live with his parents for some time,
patriarch named Hirsch.
David Harris was believed to have
according to city records, but after
David died, Lena was listed as living
been one of 13 children whose roots
alone. No one knows the fate of Harry.
were in Kalvarja, in what is now
After the Gen. Slocum tragedy, the
Lithuania (then part of Russia). He
Harrises stayed in Manhattan. David
came to America aboard the SS
died some time within the next 16
Excelsior, arriving July 29, 1864. He
years, Rosenholz believes, as he is no
was 18 years old at the time.
longer listed in the New York census
Apparently, Harris found work as a
after 1920. His wife survived him, con-
painter and later, making hats, his
tinuing her residence in the city for a
profession as listed in a turn-of-the-
few years, until at last her name was
century city census.
gone, too.
David Harris was a "respectable man
... an everyday sort of Jew, not
devout but honest and hard
working," Mark Rosenholz's
grandmother, Deborah "Dolly"
Rosenholz Bloch, wrote in her
family memoirs.
David's wife, Lena Fogel, was
m rim nav
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born in Ohio. Lena was skilled
Pi Nit
at making artificial flowers and
feathers, and when she married
David the two began a shop
(where they made flowers and
possibly fancy hats) of their
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own, which was quite successful.
The couple settled at 242 E.
Fifth St. in Manhattan. They
waited for a long time, but find-
ing they were unable to have chil-
dren of their own, they adopted a
girl they named Sylvia (or Silvia),
born in September 1894; her
Hebrew name was Sarah.
According to the family mem-
It took eight days for Sylvia's body
oirs of Dolly Bloch, the Harrises were
(she had drowned) to be found after
devastated by the death of their daugh-
the Gen. Slocum burned. She was
ter.
buried June 26 in a Queens, N.Y., chil-
"They absolutely adored her. I have
dren's cemetery, along with many other
never seen such devotion given to any
of the youngest victims of the disaster.
child ... If anyone accidentally brushed
The Gen. Slocum incident left an
against her in the street, Mr. Harris (if
entire city in pain. A fund-raising effort
he had been of a stature which could
was quickly under way to help the fam-
accomplish anything), would readily
ilies of the dead; many could not afford
have killed the ones who did it ...
the high cost of a burial. Almost every-
"His business was prospering and
one contributed — most with pennies
nothing she wanted was ever refused
and nickels. Among the larger contrib-
her. It was his habit every day to leave
utors was financier Bernard Baruch,
the flower factory in the afternoon, to
who gave $250 (an immense amount
attend the racetracks. He did not
for the time).
believe in banks and always carried a
There are more Jewish angles to the
small fortune on his person ...
"When they lost this child, it did not
Gen. Slocum disaster. For example, St.
Marks Lutheran Church eventually
take two years before he was broke (for
became a synagogue. You'll also find
he had been so devoted to the child
reference to the day in James Joyce's
and her loss was so irreparable to him)
Ulysses, the story of a Jewish Dubliner.
that he lost all interest in his business
Though little information about
and everything around him.
'As trouble never strikes singly, Mrs.
the Gen. Slocum is readily available,
look for Ship Ablaze, by Edward T
Harris gave birth to a son (the first
O'Donnell. The only nonfiction
child in 17 years of marriage) and this
book on the disaster, it's brilliantly
child was born blind. They became so
poor that they had to move and lost the researched and difficult to put
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