Near 1871, Solomon Noar (13) immigrated to America from Russia. On March 28, 1883 he married Sarah Jaffe in NYC. He was involved in the quilt business in Philadelphia in the 1880's where his first 2 children were born. After that he owned a fish store in NYC. According to listings in the city directory and his children's birth records, his name was actually Joseph Solomon Noar. He mostly went by Solomon. They had 5 children:
Harold
(Herman)
(b 1883)
Mabel
(b
1886)
Bertha
(b
1890)
Josephine
(b
1892)
Abraham
S (b 1895)
1.
Harold
Noar
Harold
was a policeman in NYC. He started a youth group for kids around
the police theme. He ended up as a salesman for a company that sold
ready to wear dresses, traveling all over the country.
Harold
married Carolyn Rosenthal.
They met when Harold was delivering fish for his mother's fish
store. One day he delivered fish to the Rosenthal family. The
daughter, Carolyn,
met him at the front door. She told him that he can't deliver it to the
front like that! He had to bring it to the back. They ended
up getting married. They had 4 children: Bernice,
Sylvan
Robert, Clarice,
and Gertrude.
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- Bernice Noar
married Harold Rogers
and had a son David.
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Sylvan Noar went
by his middle name Robert.
He worked
in the clothing industry. In
college he wanted to be a musician and played the trumpet. However,
his father
disapproved of him playing in the dance bands in college so he stopped.
He thought about
medicine but his sister, who was studying to be a doctor, took him up to
her anatomy lab one
day and that ended those aspirations. Robert
attended Temple U.
When he was young, Robert
bought an old Model A Ford for $25. He was riding along 32nd
street in NY with his cousin, Stanley, when he was hit broadside.
His arm was hurt and
bleeding. Robert
asked the guy who hit him to take him to the hospital. The guy refused
because he did not want to get blood in his car. He made it
to the hospital anyway and got
stitched up.
Robert married Olga
Filipovich n 1945. He met her while
visiting the factory where Olga
was
the manager's secretary. Robert looked at her and said "That is the
girl I am going to marry."
They had 2 children: Richard
and William.
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Richard
Noar married
Diane
Agrue and have 6 children Matthew,
Faith,
Joy,
Michael,
Timothy, and Bethany.
- Matthew is
married to Carrie Johnson
- Faith married
Daniel
Smith and have a daughter Hannah
born in Oct., 1999.
- William
married Pamela Lee Moare
and resides in Japan with their 4 children Ruth,
Laurel, Lydia,
and Jonathan.
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(l-r) Jonathan, Lydia, Ruth, Laurel, Pamela and William
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- Clarice
Noar married Robert
Rivenburgh and had a son Robert
who
died the summer before
he was to go to college. He was in a park near home and had climbed
a pole. At the top he
touched live electric wires and was killed.
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Gertrude
Noar married Charles
Chalmers and had 2 children, Susan
and Joel.
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Gertrude Noar |
2.
Mabel
Noar
Mabel
was mentally retarded and cared for
by her family.
3.
Bertha
Noar
Bertha worked as a nurse.
4.
Josephine
Noar
Josephine
was very extroverted and married
Irving
Moskowitz.
5.
Abraham
S. Noar
Abraham
married
Belle
Blum in 1926. Belle
said she and fiance Abe
went to Abe's
cousin,
Joseph Noar from the Yudel
branch, who had a diamond business in NY to get an
engagement ring. This cousin said "Abe,
don't worry, I'll make your girl a beautiful ring" and it
was beautiful.
Abraham
operated the Electrol Oil Heating Inc. in Patterson, N.J.
They had 2 children, Stanley
and Bette Lee.
- Stanley married
Arlene
Flack and had 2 children, Lisa
and
Brian.
- Bette Lee married
Donald
Brady and had 2 children, Scott
and
Donna.
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