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The Liebman –
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name in either family tree below for more information on many
individuals listed. For a full page, printable family tree,
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New Jersey and
Cleveland Branches
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Southern Loveman
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The Southern Lovemans - II
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saac
Liebman and his wife Suve (?-?) Liebman were the other set of
progenitors of the Southern Lovemans. They had at least two sons and
two daughters. Only one of their children emigrated to the United
States, but descendants of all of them became American.
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Bernard Loveman (1800-1887)
of
Györke (Durkov), who, with his wife Esther
Wirkman (?-1852) had six children. First was Isaac Liebman
(1826-1869). Born in Durkov, he married Betty Kaufman
(1836-1890). Neither of them left Hungary, but all of their
six children did. Next was Aron Liebman (?-?), also
born in Durkov, who married Czilli Goldberger (?-?) and had
six daughters with her. He then
married Irma Weinberger (?-?) and had six more
daughters and a son who died in childhood. At least one of them,
Hermina Liebman Leibovits
(1891-1944), died in the Holocaust, together with her
husband
Eugen (?-1944) and son
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A
third child was
Adolf Bernard Loveman
(1844-1916), founder of Loveman, Joseph & Loeb of Birmingham.
Left: Adolf Liebman's Austro-Hungarian passport, dated 7
Oct 1865. Click to enlarge. Right: Adolf Bernard Loveman. |
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Bernard and
Esther's
three other children were
Fannie Liebman (?-?), born in Durkov, who married Abraham Gluck
(?-?) and had nine children, all in Kosice; Herman Liebman
(?-1882), born in Györke; and Estelle Mae Loveman (? - bef
1895), who married Emanuel Goodman, and whose daughter
Mollie
emigrated to the U.S. in about 1881. |
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At left: Fannie Hirsch Vezdoon, and her mother, Mollie Goodman
Hirsch, 1920s. |
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Mendel Meyer Liebman
(1812-1888),
also of Györke. Together with his wife Betti, or Blume
(1827-?), he had 10 children. Several emigrated to the
U.S., though neither Mendel nor his wife did. They were:
Adolph
P. Loveman (1843-1935),
a cotton merchant, who married Adassa Heilprin
(1847-1921), daughter of Michael Heilprin (1823-1888?). They
had five children, including editor
Amy Loveman (1881-1955).
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Herman P. Loveman
(1850-1934), who married Louisa Black (1852-1927),
daughter of Fanny Loveman (1841-1907) and Joseph Black
(1837-1899) and hence a granddaughter of
Bernhard Loveman
(1808-1867). He was a cotton dealer and a department
store executive; they lived in Cleveland and New York
and had three children. |
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Herman P. Loveman Obituary, The New York Times,
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Joseph Loveman
(1851-?), who married Malvine Moskovics (1862-1941) in
1878 and had two sons in Hungary and two daughters in
the United States. He was a dry goods buyer.
Pinkusz Liebman (1854-?), who was born in Durkov and
married Dina Lichtenstein (?-?). No other records of
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William Loveman (1857-1929),
born in Durkov. He emigrated to Nashville and became a
millinery merchant. He married Yetta Lansburger
(1867-1946) in Nashville in 1889 and they had four
daughters and a son.
Ignatz Liebman (1868-1940), who married Hani Fried
(?-?). He was born in Durkov and died in Kosice. He is
interred in the Kosice Jewish Cemetery. |
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Emanuel P. Loveman (1848-1945), known as
Mendel. He emigrated to the U.S. and was a cotton
merchant, married to Kath Masterson (?-?).
Letter dated 8 Jul 1887 written in Yiddish by Emanuel
Liebman to his cousin, reporting on the death of his
uncle Bernard Loveman in Györke. Click to
enlarge. |
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Rae Loveman (?-?), who married Marcus Gansl (?-?) and had five daughters, most of whom who settled
in Nashville. They were Etta Gansl (?-?) , who married
Bernard Klein (?-?); Julia Gansl (?-1970) , who married
Albert Roth (?-?) and had two children; Fanny Gansl
(1849-?), who married Morris Sonnenfield (1844 -1920) and had
nine children with him, most of them Nashville-based; Zelda
Gansl (?-?), who married Herman Wise (?-?) and had four
daughters; and Rose Gansl (1856-1934), who married David
Rosenberg (?-1902) in Hungary and had eight children, most
or all of whom lived in the Nashville area. |
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