Prominent Jews of America; a collection of biographical sketches of Jews who have distinguished themselves in commercial, professional and religious endeavor . is indebted to the Mann family for two of its prosperingbusiness houses, the Mann Iron & Steel Company, conducted by Mr. AaronMann, and H. Mann & Co., of which Mr. Harry Mann is owner. These two brothers were born in Kovno, Guberne, Russia, Harry onMarch i, 1885, and Aaron on March 5, 1889. They are the sons of Mr. ZelickMann, who was a prosperous merchant of their native city. They came to America in 1905, and Harry, being the elder, a
Prominent Jews of America; a collection of biographical sketches of Jews who have distinguished themselves in commercial, professional and religious endeavor . is indebted to the Mann family for two of its prosperingbusiness houses, the Mann Iron & Steel Company, conducted by Mr. AaronMann, and H. Mann & Co., of which Mr. Harry Mann is owner. These two brothers were born in Kovno, Guberne, Russia, Harry onMarch i, 1885, and Aaron on March 5, 1889. They are the sons of Mr. ZelickMann, who was a prosperous merchant of their native city. They came to America in 1905, and Harry, being the elder, at once wentto work peddling junk, while his brother continued to go to school for oneyear and then started in at the same occupation. A few years later, havingsaved a small capital, they went into partnership and opened a junk they were both most able business men and the firm did not need morethan one executive head, they decided to dissolve partnership and operate sepa-rately, which they did in 1917. They have both achieved a remarkable success and their ability and integ-rity are highly respected in the city of their adoption. 192. Mr. Harry Mann was married July 25, 1913, to Miss Bessie Michelson ofBaltimore, Md. Mr. Aaron Mann was married June 11, 1916, to Miss Sadie Lefco ofPhiladelphia, and they are the parents of a baby girl. Both men are generous contributors to the various charities and are alsoprominent members of Feres Israel Congregation and Brith Sholom. Their achievements are deserving of special credit, owing to the fact thatthey were accomplished unaided, and as Mann brothers are still very youngmen, it is not difficult to predict a long and brilliant career for each of them. WILLIAM MARCUS Over in Europe, where conditions of life were so well settled, where lifechanged but rarely and all changes were slow and scarcely perceptible, it wasthe Jewish parents who would naturally decide the future of their the father was in a position to d
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