Brief Life History of Rose
When Rose Benjamin was born on 15 July 1883, in Russian Empire, her father, Max Louis Benjamin, was 31 and her mother, Mollie Horowitz, was 18. She married Harry Ziff on 29 May 1904, in Ohio, Hamilton, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States in 1900. She died on 10 February 1973, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 89.
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- Rosa Benjamin in household of Mose Benjamin, "United States Census, 1900"
- Cook County, Illinois, Birth Certificates Index, 1871-1922
- Rose Benjamin, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1894
Nicholas II crowned emperor.
1907 · Not for profit elections
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
Name Meaning
Jewish (Sephardic and Ashkenazic), English, French, West Indian (mainly Haiti), and African (mainly Nigeria and Tanzania); Hungarian (Benjámin): from the Hebrew male personal name Binyāmīn ‘Son of the South’. In the Book of Genesis, it is treated as meaning ‘Son of the Right Hand’. The two senses are connected, since in Hebrew the south is thought of as the right-hand side of a person who is facing east. Benjamin was the youngest and favorite son of Jacob and supposed progenitor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel (Genesis 35:16-18; 42:4). The personal name was not common among Gentiles in the Middle Ages, but its use was sanctioned by virtue of having been borne by a Christian saint martyred in Persia in about AD 424. In some cases in medieval Europe it was also applied as a byname or nickname to the youngest (and beloved) son of a large family; this is the sense of modern French benjamin. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Assyrian/Chaldean Benyamin and Italian Beniamino.
History: John Benjamin (1598–1645) came from England to Watertown, MA, in 1632. Jean-Baptiste Benjamin dit Saint-Aubin from France married Jeanne Allard in QC in 1704.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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