Fun fact: 100 years ago, my great grandfather asked his brother in Alameda County to help him apply for a passport so he could visit England, France, Italy, Switzerland and Belgium for Fidelity Motor Supply Co. And here I am in 2020...
Abraham Goldbaum = Abe Keene
Having a Jewish name in 1920 wasn& #39;t such a great asset, apparently. The Keene name has stuck in our family ever since.
Having a Jewish name in 1920 wasn& #39;t such a great asset, apparently. The Keene name has stuck in our family ever since.
Abe was apparently a character. Once he was in Paris, he somehow got involved a lawsuit involving "400,000 dozen of huck towels" in which 4.2 million francs of his employers& #39; money went missing—presumably not the Fidelity Motor Supply Co.
Toward the end of his life (about 20 years later) he was also involved in a slip-and-fall lawsuit involving an elevator in his building, which yielded this amazing transcript:
But by far his greatest life accomplishment was this episode, which made (small) national headlines in 1902. Second place: trying to join the Masonic Order in Sonora, Mexico in 1904 after they booted him out in Tucson, possibly because he was Jewish. (General Eagan wasn& #39;t alone.)
The Embalmed Beef Scandal was a thing. A thing with a Wikipedia page, even. Which makes it all the more ironic that Abe& #39;s father, my great great grandfather, was scalped by Geronimo& #39;s tribe. (No hard feelings!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_beef_scandal">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit... https://twitter.com/TeslaAgnostic/status/1259717067458125825">https://twitter.com/TeslaAgno...