Samuel CHOLFIN,  paternal grandfather of JewishGenner Barbara Cholfin Johnson

• Date of birth: 15 May 1879 or 1881 in "Brichany" to Joseph CHOLFIN and Sarah ROSEMAN (possibly  from Chisinau) (deceased 1957)
• Arrived in New York on Goethe from Trieste: dep. 12/22/1904   arr. 1/15/1905
• Note in 1904, Moldova was under the control of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia
• Samuel arrived in Boston on 2/24/1905
• Samuel lived in Cambridge (the earliest years) and Somerville and Brookline (the latest years), Massachusetts
• Naturalized at U.S. 1st Circuit Court.  (Petition 4116, applied 9/18/1911; Certificate 208725; Naturalization Certificate 2283492, dated 12/17/26)
• Samuel. when asked, said he was from Romania
• Samuel's brother (the only one known about) went to Brazil
• Samuel became a hay and grain dealer and a retail store owner
• Most memorable physical feature: blue blue eyes
• Married Ida Lugoch (her brother spelled it Dlugach) from Odessa
• Had three sons, Isadore (dec.), Joseph (dec.), and Harvey
• Isadore had one daughter and one son (dec. 1992); Harvey had one daughter (dec.), who had three sons

• Solomon was born in "Brychany" on 5/25/1882
• Left on SS Amsterdam from Rotterdam: dep. 1/18/1905
• Solomon was naturalized on the same day as CHOLFIN and lived in Somerville and Winthrop, Massachusetts
• Esther was automatically naturalized when her husband became naturalized
• Hay and grain dealer and printer with black hair and gray eyes

• Born in "Brichany"
• Her husband, Samuel DORFMAN, born on 10/1/1869 in Lipkany, was naturalized on the same day as CHOLFIN
• Arrived on SS Goethe from Trieste: dep. 2/16/1904  arr. 3/10/1904
• Sluwa and Samuel's three daughters,  Sarah (b. 9/12/1900), Lena (b. 3/15/1902), and Blanche (b. 11/27/1904), arrived  with their parents
• Sluwa and Samuel had a fourth child, Ratie, born here on 4/23/10 in Cambridge
• "Pedlar"

• Believed to be Samuel CHOLFIN's maternal uncle (possibly brother of Sarah Roseman, CHOLFIN's mother)
• Born (11/15/1869) in Chisinau [Roseman, himself, wrote, "Kishenif" on his naturalization papers.]
• Arrived in New York on Spaarndam from Rotterdam: dep: 7/6/1900  arr. 7/17/1900
• Max  was naturalized  (Petition 4114, U.S.1st Cir.Ct.; Certificate 206692) on the same day as CHOLFIN
• Wife, Fanny, from Zaslav, Russia (directly north of Brichany), and their two sons, Benjamin (b. 7/15/1889) and Louis (b. 3/20/1895) arrived with them
• Settled in Somerville, Massachusetts and was a bottle dealer at time of his Declaration of Intention

• Samuel CHOLFIN's brother (the only one known about) went to Brazil circa 1900
• It is believed that Samuel CHOLFIN's brother had a child named after Samuel and that child was an executive  for American Machine & Foundry in Brazil (JewishGenner BCJ is searching for him)
• It is believed that he lived in or in the environs of Sao Paolo

Webpage Compiled by Barbara Cholfin Johnson
Updated BCJ:  14 December 1998
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