Notes for: Harry (Hirsch) SVERDLOVE

#1082 Harry Sverdlove

#RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 17-Feb-1996; Source Documentation.
NAME: for father's father Aryeih SVERDLOV and/or mothers father Chayim Hersch
DAVIDSON.

Harry arrived in Montreal as a small child. He grew up on Sanguinette St. in
the poorest section. I remember seeing the homes before they were torn down.
The staircases from the backyard to the second story apartments. Both my
grandfathers lived near each other. Grandpa had worked for the CNN, drove a
horse drawn cart selling milk, and then had a grocery store. My grandmother
died quite young and my father told me about his work. He would deliver shoes
to the prostitutes in a local "cat" house for a few cents.

As a teenager he came to Brooklyn and stayed with Davidson family, tanta & Ben
Dickman's. He already was ambitious and held two jobs. He got into the
electrical union, I.B.E.W. local 3. When the depression started he went to
Carl Johnson and they started an electrical contracting firm. It was 1936.
His finist hour was making the front page of the New York Times with a picture
of the lighting of the Verrazano Bridge in November 1963. Gay Tallese was
writing the book "Bridge".

ADDRESS: He was born in Lepel', Lepel' district, Vitebsk oblasti, Vitebsk
gubernia. If Uncle Jack was a baby in their passport photo then they must
have travelled between 1910 and 1913. Within a few years my grandmother died.
I heard it was a painfull ending. The children were very young. Rose was 14.
Auntie Anne and Uncle Jack were blue eyed blonds. Aunt Rose and my father
were dark hair and eyes and swarthy complexions. They moved to Sanguanette
Street, Montreal. When my father was a teenager he and a friend, Hy Seltzer,
took a bus to New York City. Hy went back within a few months. My dad lived
first with the Dickman family, later on Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn.

After he and my mother married they moved to West 179th Street near Columbia
Presbyterian Hospital. In 1939 they bought 566 North Columbus Avenue, Mt.
Vernon, New York and lived there the rest of there lives. Twenty-two years
for my mother and twenty-seven for my father. 0

After my father died, Adrienne, Andrew and Lisa move to Mt. Vernon, NY and
lived in my childhood home (redecorated and remodelled by Adrienne). We
stayed until Lisa was 8 and with Jill and Harry and the live in help, a young
farm girl from Iowa, Joyce Allender, we moved to Larchmont. It was 1963 and
the height of my career. I had just completed to World Port for Pan American
at JFK International Airport, New York.

Forget the next thirty years...now I work as an electrical estimator and do
genealogy! Lisa & Jill are married and live in different parts of New Jersey.
Harry works in computer software near Boston.

MARRIAGE: Index; 1934; Manhattan Brides Index, NYC, 1934 Dec 26
reel 35; K1771;
NYC Dept of Records & Information Services, Municipal Archives, 31 Chamber St
room 103, New York, NY.

#RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 14-Nov-1995.
MARRIAGE: Grooms Index; 1934; NYC Marriages Reported in 1935 in Brooklyn;
December; call *ZI-329 reel 15,
NY Public Library, Central Research Library, Microform Reading Room 315M;
NOTE: Sverdlove, Harry Dec 26, 1934 #1771.

#RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 28-Nov-1995. 0
MARRIAGE-SPOUSE-BIRTH-PARENTS-OCCUPATION-RESIDENCE: Marriage License; 1934;
Brooklyn Marriage Certificates, 1935, 748-2000, reel 566; #1771;
NYC, Dept of Records & Information Services, Municipal Archives, 31 Chamber St
room 103, New York, NY; NOTE:
Groom & Bride Harry Sverdlove & Lee R Rothman
RESIDENCE: 114 West 61st St 114 West 61st St
AGE: 29 years old 22 years old
Color White White
Marr Status Single Single
OCCU: Electrical Contractor
BIRTH PLACE Russia Montreal, Canada
FATHER: Louis Nathn
MOTHER: Sonia Davidson Zelda Demberg
Marriage performed at 711 Crown St, Saul Grafman, Minister, Witnesses
A Paperman and Harry Weiner.

#RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 02-Oct-1995.
OCCUPATION: City Directory; 1938-1940; R.L. Polk & Company, Inc Copartnership
& Corporation Directory, New York City 1938/1939-1940; pg 690;
microfilm call *ZAN-G235, roll #923,
NY Public Library, Central Research Library, Microform Reading Room 315M;
NOTE: Johnson, C G Electrical Construction Co Inc (NY), Carl G Johnson
President, Harry Sverdlove, treasurer, cap 200 sh npv Directors as about,
construction, 140 West 42nd Street, room 804. 0

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