Adler Family Collection 1867-1980 Bulk dates: 1889-1911

The Adler Family Collection contains papers of various members of the Adler family. Most of the collection consists of correspondence, but there is also one folder with family papers such as wedding memorabilia, vaccination certificates, visiting cards, telegrams, a notebook, a family tree for one branch of the family and a clipping on Selig Adler.The Adler family lived in Bavaria during the nineteenth century; some family members immigrated to the United States before 1900. Among them was the salesman Josef Gabriel Adler, born May 9, 1873 in Kitzingen, Germany. From 1893 on he lived in Baltimore, Maryland, and on February 19, 1907 he married May Rubenstein; he died in 1925. They had one son, Selig Adler, who became a professor of history at the University of Buffalo. Other family members included an elder Josef Gabriel Adler (1802-1873), who was a rabbi in Aschaffenburg and Immanuel Adler (1840-1911), rabbi in Kitzingen.5 catalogue cards.Processeddigitize