The Markow Family Tree

Family BBQ 6/94 at our house (Mildred & Ruth Mannes)

Was born Dec 2, 1890 in Kiev, Russia. Came from Russia to America in 1903. She came with her sister in a boat and it landed on Ellis Island. She was 13 years old when she came to America. She went to New York and worked in a pants factory and earned 50 cents a week. She would save 25 cents a week to save up enough money to be able to bring her parents and other sisters and brother to America (she had 5 sisters and 1 brother). She left Russia and came to America for religious reasons and to get away from the bad things that happened in Russia. She died August 27, 1982. She was 92 years old.

Polski, was film censor and retired bar owner Nathan Polski, a retired tavern owner who was working as an inspector for the Maryland State Board of Censors, will be held at 9 A.M. tomorrow at the Levinson funeral establishment, 6010 Reisterstown road. Mr. Polski, who was 76, died yesterday in his sleep at his home at 7121 Park Heights avenue. From 1950 until his retirement in 1968, he was the owner of a tavern called the Knotty Pine Club. Earlier, he had been in the laundry business. A native of Kiev, in the Ukraine, he came to Baltimore as a child with his family. He enlisted in the Army and served on the Mexican border before being discharged for being under age. Later he reenlisted and served in France during World War I. He was wounded at Verdun. He had formed the Northwest Baltimore Chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons and served as its first president. He had also been instrumental in the establishment of a senior citizens center that is due to open on Reisterstown road near the Reisterstown Plaza Shopping Center. Active in Fifth District Democratic politics, he was a founder of the Queensbury Democratic Club. He had also served two terms in the late 1950's as president of the Metropolitan Liquor Dealers Association. He was a member of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation and the Torah-Exodus Lodge of B'nai B'rith. Also, he belonged to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Disabled American Veterans, the Jewish War Veterans and the Veterans of World War I. His first wife, the former Jeanetta McDonough, died in 1969. He is survived by his wife, the former Mildred Carp Cornblatt; a son, Norman Polski, of Baltimore; a daughter, Mrs. Jane Lillien, of Pikesville; three sisters, Mrs. Bessie Jacobsen and Mrs. Ida Mannes both of Pikesville, and Mrs. Ethel Schmulewitz, of Balti more, and four grandchildren.