Morris Kaplan and family papers, 1924-1966.

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Morris Kaplan and family papers, 1924-1966.

Reminiscences (200 pages, ca.1966) by Kaplan and his daughter, Mildred Kaplan Light, of his boyhood in Lithuania; emigration to the United States in 1874; life and business ventures in New York City, Boston, and elsewhere; activities (early 1900s) in organizing socialist groups and cooperative grocery stores in northern Minnesota and in assisting striking iron miners there (1907); and establishment and operation of Kaplan's Glass Block, a wholesale general store in Bemidji, Minnesota.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8341026

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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