Subject and Policy Files, 1893 - 1957
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Averbuch, Olga, 1886?-1942?
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Olga Averbuch was born in Kishinev in the Russian Empire Averbuch. She immigrated to the United States and settled in Chicago around 1906; her brother Lazarus joined her there the year after. In 1908 Lazarus reportedly went to the house of the Chicago Chief of Police, George Shippy and was killed. Following her brother's death, Olga Averbuch was detained by the police and interrogated for 72 hours. Without first knowing he was dead, Olga was confronted with Averbuch's body, damaged from gunfi...
Averbuch, Lazarus, 1889-1908
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Lazarus Averbuch was a young Jewish immigrant who settled in Chicago. He immigrated to the United States in 1907, as a teenager, from Austria, where he'd fled to from Russia after being persecuted for being Jewish. Upon arriving in the States, he worked as an egg packer at a produce commission house. Three months later, in 1908, he reportedly went to the house of the Chicago Chief of Police, George Shippy and was killed. Police buried Averbauch's body without a ceremony. However, when the body w...
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925
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William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, running three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States in the 1896, 1900, and 1908 elections. He also served in the United States House of Representatives and as the United States Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson. Just before his death, he gained national attention for attacking the te...
Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)
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Ellis Island is a former immigration inspection station. As the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 to 1954, it processed approximately 12 million immigrants to the United States in New York Harbor, within the states of New York and New Jersey. Prior to the immigration station it was owned by the Ellis family before the US government used it as a fort and a naval magazine. Between 1905 and 1914, immigration officials reviewed about 5,000 immigrants per day during peak times a...
