ARCHIVE: Letters and ephemera of the Gideon Family of Yonkers, New York.
CORRESPONDENCE OF A JEWISH AMERICAN FAMILY
Gideon, Miriam, Judith Gideon, Henrietta Shoninger Gideon, et al. Family Archive. 1892-1933.
Collection of letters and ephemera of the Gideon Family of Yonkers, New York, Boston, Massachusetts, and elsewhere, including composer Miriam Gideon, her older sister Judith Gideon, their mother Henrietta Shoninger Gideon, and her husband, Dr. Abram Gideon; with related family ephemera:
357 letters (1126 pages, 149 envelopes)
203 pieces of ephemera, including pamphlets, photographs, cards, newspaper clippings, etc.
The Gideon family’s friends and family write from California, Colorado, Kentucky, Iowa, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington State, and other locations, including several from travellers in Europe, to the family in New York City and Yonkers.
As follows:
357 letters (1126 pages, 149 envelopes)
Dates:
1896-1906 3letters, 15pp, 3envelopes.
1910s 30 letters, 126 pp, 13 envelopes.
1920s 184 letters, 606 pp, 85 envelopes.
1930s 78 letters, 216 pp, 44 envelopes.
Undated 62 letters, 163 pp, 4 envelopes.
Correspondents:
Dr. Abram Gideon (6), his wife Henrietta Shoninger Gideon (55), their daughter, the composer Miriam Gideon (45), Judith Gideon (6), Dr. Gideon’s brother Henry Gideon of Boston, Massachusetts (6), a family friend and colleague Dr. Louise Hannum, of Riverside, California (27), Henry Shoninger, father of Mrs. Gideon (4), Ida Shoninger Fleischaker, sister of Mrs. Gideon (8), Sol Shoninger, brother of Mrs. Gideon (6), Aunt Clara Rumball (4), Louis H. Baer of Albany, New York (7), Jules Falk, violin teacher for Judith Gideon (6), Etta Deutsch, friend of Judith Gideon (14), Minnie Katz of Osage, Iowa, a cousin to the Gideon sisters, perhaps on their mother’s side of the family (16), Blanche, a niece of Mrs. Gideon, possibly Blanche Katz (6), Hannah Grunbaum of Seattle, Washington (4), Irene, of Chicago, Illinois, a niece of Mrs. Gideon (5), Ed Salzar, of Chicago, Illinois (1), Morris E. A. of Albany, New York, an apparent suitor of Judith Gideon (13) the American Zion Commonwealth, Inc. (1), the Jewish Consumptives Relief Society (4), plus others correspondents, either friends, business associates, or other family members.
Recipients:
Judith Gideon (159), Miriam Gideon (2), Judith and Miriam Gideon together (21), Mr. and Mrs. Abram Gideon (15), Judith Gideon and her mother (10), Mrs. Henrietta Shoninger Gideon (77), Henrietta Shoninger Gideon and her two daughters (2), Abram Gideon (20), plus others.
203 Pieces of Ephemera:
5 pieces of paper ephemera for the American Zion Commonwealth, Inc., includes Land Certificate, 2 Ownership Certificate, Account Statements, Canceled Check, dated 1919-1927. Abram Gideon invested in this organization, buying land in Israel (see his biography above), five dunams of land situated in Garden City Zone, Balfouria, Palestine, in 1919. He purchased it in 1919, still owed money in 1927.
5 pieces of ephemera for Abram Gideon, including his minister’s license from Jefferson County, Kentucky (1892), 2 library cards for the New York Public Library (1933), a bank account card (not dated), and a manuscript of his “Last Will and Testament” (1918), all dated 1892-1933.
8 pieces of miscellaneous manuscript, or verse, notes, etc.
9 cards, placed in envelopes, dated 1910-1933, written to Mrs. Gideon and her daughters, Judy and Miriam, by friends, or family, with by Miriam Gideon.
12 envelopes that were separated from their letters could possibly be matched again.
15 pieces of miscellaneous ephemera for Judith Gideon, including graduation brochure from Yonkers High School, report cards from Hunter College (1922-1925), invitation cards for her graduation from Hunter College (1925), commencement brochure from graduation from Hunter College (1925), reference letter from Hunter College (1927), report from some coursework done at Columbia University (1923), registration r
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