Herman Fligelman, 1971-1974

Herman Fligelman (original name Yossel Burt) was born in Russia during the 1860s (exact date unknown) and fled to Berlad, Romania when he was five or six years old to escape conscription in the Czar's army. His parents presumably purchased a foreigner's passport for young Yossel, and he had to assume the passport holder's name, Herman Fligelman. When he was about seventeen (1882?), Herman left for America. He slowly brought his siblings to America, where they settled in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He married fellow immigrant Minnie Weinzweig in Minneapolis, and she died shortly after the birth of their second daughter in 1891. Herman was elected president of the New York Dry Goods Company (of Montana) around this time. In 1894, Herman remarried, this time to Ghetty Volgenbaum, who acted as the mother of his two daughters. The girls both graduated the University of Wisconsin. Fligelman died in 1932.