Janine J. Silberman

Rafael Baumgarten

Julek, Fela, Leonore, Franka, Rafael, and Rosa (left to right)

After 1887 (when Fela was born) and before 1894 (when Magdalena was born).

Mom's Memories:

Had been a gentleman farmer; "private intellectual"; pursued philosophy and the like. Owned for a while some sort of farm or ranch. Owned factory "Constantinov" made cloth.--Tweeds or something; pretty good materials; iron material according to her mother; mom had coat that lasted forever

Hush hush, but believed to have committed suicide (and found by Mina). [Aunt Franka let it slip once; otherwise no information.] Financial difficulties. [1]

As usual, we may again fall through the cracks - that goes way back to WWI when the Germans occupied my grandfather's factory (I guess it belonged to the Baumgarten children by then) and left an "IOU". Aunt Franka pursued the matter for years afterwards until the lawyer died; but I think she had not quite given up on it by the time she died in 1970. Place was called "Konstantinova".

Birth Certificate

To be translated. According to Glen

According to JRI-Poland, he was buried in Lodz, but I believe that this doesn't mean his grave is extant.

BAUMGARTEN Rafał Icek Section: F Row: 6)2 Grave: 2 Side: P

Lodzer Tageblatt, Tuesday, November 30 (December 12), 1899.

Factory Fire

Randomly found this on Internet Archive, which does not appear to have all the newspapers on it. Google translate:

Two major fires. On Saturday evening at 7 p.m., a fire broke out in the wool spinning mill owned by the brothers Leopold and Rafal Baumgarten, located on the Karow property on Jakobsstrasse. Despite the best efforts of the fire brigade, of which fire engines 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 were present, the fire destroyed the entire building, including four sets of spinning equipment. However, the steam engine and the boiler house survived. Messrs. B. were insured with Jakor for 49,000 rubles. The fire brigade was active until around 12 p.m. and only stopped when everything was completely extinguished.

Nevertheless, 10 hours later, around 10 a.m. on Sunday morning, the steam mill adjacent to the burned-down spinning mill caught fire and was incinerated, except for the magazine, which survived. As we hear, Mr. Karom was completely uninsured and therefore likely suffered a great loss. This time, the men of both stable divisions were busy extinguishing the fire until 8 a.m. on Monday morning.

The Baumgarten spinning mill had already been in danger of fire earlier, when it was located on the Engel property, but was saved at that time and has now fallen victim to the flames.

Not sure if this is our great-grandfather, but a "Raphael Baumgarten" had to pay 24 rubles towards: "Repartition tax. The guild repartition tax, totaling 66,000 bl., levied on the cities of Lodz and Zgierz, as well as on the Lodz district, was distributed among the individual companies as follows:" in July 1891.

Notes:

[1] Obviously, Mom never saw the letter that her uncle wrote.

Geni data

Gender: Male

Birth: October 22, 1856

Death: September 22, 1906 (49) Lodz, Łódź, Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland

Immediate Family: Son of Ioachim Baumgarten and Frajdla Baumgarten

Husband of Leonore (Liba) BaumgartenFather of Julek Baumgarten; Jytta Baumgarten; Freidel Francisca Tramer; Rosa Baumgarten; Felicias Baumgarten-Campetti and 1 otherBrother of Heilman Baumgarten; Abraham Baumgarten; Leopold Baumgarten; Solomon Baumgarten; Regina Baumgarten and 1 other

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