27 August 2015

Treasure Chest Thursday: "Saul" Myers family advertisement, FLPBA 1949 anniversary publication

GREETINGS
- - - from - - -

Mr. & Mrs. Saul Myers
AND FAMILY
and 
CAROL and DAVID

120 OCEAN PARKWAY
BROOKLYN, N.Y.

The spelling of Sol's first name in this advertisement is likely a typo as he is consistently referred to as Solomon or Sol in all other records (census, his parents naturalization, his father's probate, and his social security file).

Sol Myers was the middle child and only son of Samuel and Esther Myers. I previously wrote about Sam here and here and Esther, here. Both of Sol's parents were born in the Russian Empire and were active in the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association (FLPBA). 

Sol was born in New York City on 27 December 1920 and grew up in Brooklyn and the Bronx.[1] He was in the Army during World War II, serving from 23 November 1942 to 21 October 1945.[2] He became an accountant (CPA) and taught at the college level.[3] He and his wife Beatrice had five children (clearly only two were born when this FLPBA anniversary publication was printed).

Sol died on 7 August 1986. He and Beatrice are not buried in any of the three FLPBA plots in Montefiore or Beth David Cemeteries in New York.

Notes:
1. 1925 New York State census, Kings County, New York, enumeration of inhabitants, Brooklyn, election district 54, assembly district 18, page 52, Samuel and Esther Meyers family; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 7 June 2012); New York State Archives, Albany.
1930 U.S. census, Bronx County, population schedule, Bronx, enumeration district 3-428, sheet 24A, dwelling 484, family 484, Samuel and Esther Meyers family; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 26 December 2008); NARA microfilm publication T626 , roll 1477.
2. "U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010," index, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 August 2015), entry for Sol Myers; "Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File," U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, D.C.
3. "Deaths," Sol Myers, New York Times (New York), 8 August 1986; digital image, New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html : accessed 27 August 2011).

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