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Houston County, Alabama, Heritage

Descendants of Hyman Blumberg 

1-Hyman Blumberg b. 1869, Lithuania, d. 1934
 +Esther Abrams b. Baltimore Co, MD

Dothan was the end of a long journey for Mr. Blumberg. He arrived in the States from Prussia in the 1870s and then after marrying Esther Abrams, he started working his way south looking for a good place to start a business. He drove the stage from Geneva to Columbia for a while with overnight stops at the Gregory Boardinghouse in the little town the stage line still called Poplar Head. Mr. Blumberg could see opportunities for growth here, so he quit the stage line and in 1891 opened a store in a tent on the northwest corner of North Foster and West Main, where the Newberry Store was later located. That corner is now a parking lot.

Laura Blumberg says: "He progressed from a pack on his back, to a wagon, to a store. "

In the early 1890s he moved his store into the east half of the building on the southeast corner of Foster and Main Street. In 1909 his store occupied the entire ground floor (the Silver Hotel was upstairs). 

|--2-Harold Blumberg 
|   +Sarah Goldstein b. Thomasville, Georgia
|  |--3-Larry Blumberg 
|  |   +Laura Becker b. Savannah, Chatham, GA
|  |  |--4-Elizabeth Blumberg 
|  |  |--4-Melissa Blumberg 
|  |--3-Richard Blumberg 
|  |   +Susan 
|  |  |--4-Jarrod Blumberg 
|  |  |--4-Adrian Blumberg 
|  |  |--4-Hadyn Blumberg 
|  |--3-Hellen Blumberg 
|      +John Lisland c. New Jersey
|--2-Lena Belle Blumberg 
|   +Lee Shugarman 
|  |--3-Clem Shugarman 
|--2-Sam Blumberg 
|   +Geraldine Rosenberg b. Florida, par. Rosenberg and Unknown
|  |--3-Sam Blumberg Jr 
|  |--3-Mary Blumberg 
|      +Lehman 
|--2-Herman Blumberg 
|   +Bea Rosenberg b. Florida, par. Rosenberg and Unknown
|  |--3-Leslie Blumberg 
|  |   +Susan Schwartz 
|  |--3-Beverly Blumberg 
|      +Stanley Erdreich d. Birmingham, Alabama
|--2-David Blumberg 
|--2-Abie Blumberg 
|--2-Meyer Blumberg 
    +Esther Orivitz 
   |--3-David Blumberg 
   |--3-Terry Blumberg 
   |--3-Herb Blumberg

 

Copyright 1996  These are my own working genealogy files that I share with you.  The errors are my own.  But, perhaps they will give you a starting point.  All original writing is copyrighted.  Webmaster

Copyright 1996  These are my own working genealogy files that I share with you.  The errors are my own.  But, perhaps they will give you a starting point.  All original writing is copyrighted.  Webmaster