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Legal Document Regarding Land Subdivision in St. Louis, Missouri, November 20, 1835Legal Document Regarding Land Subdivision in St. Louis, Missouri, November 20, 1835

PETION - TO SUB.DIVIDE LAND ASD BY COHEN AS A COMMISSIONER OF THE CITY; St. Louis, Missouri.....11/20/1835...Thomas Cohen was a silversmith and watchmaker who came to Chillicothe from Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1815, and left in 1817. His father?s name was Jacob Cohen. Since the younger Cohen had a Christian given name, the elder Cohen was probably a Jew married to a non-Jewish woman who raised their children Christian (a not-uncommon occurrence in the colonial era).

Letter from Isidor Bush to Isaac Leeser, May 6, 1857Letter from Isidor Bush to Isaac Leeser, May 6, 1857

A one and one-quarter page letter, written in German with a translation, from Isidor Bush in St. Louis, Missouri to Isaac Leeser in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 6, 1857. Bush requests Leeser to review an article and includes personal commentary.