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Louis RosenFrom The Peopling of New York CityLouis or Loeb Rosen was another victim with a commonly used name, which made it extremely hard to find anything on him. Out of all my victims I found Louis Rosen name appeared all over the place but I tried and did not find much on Louis as well. David Von Drehle had in his book that he was thirty-eight years old who died from asphyxiation and he was burned. He lived at 174 Attorney Street and was identified by his sister and cousin, Mark Smelski. And he also appeared on multiple newspapers on March 28.[1] According to Louis Rosen death certificate number 10263, he was thirty-three years old who was married and worked as an operator at the Triangle shirtwaist factory. Louis was different from my other fire victims because he was married and whatever Von Drehle had said in his book was completely different on his death certificate, which is probably why it is so hard to find anything on him. One example is his age another is his name which was Loeb on his death certificate. He was born in Russia and as were his parents. His father’s name was Yanki and his mother’s name was Freida Perkin. He lived in the United States and New York City for four months. He was buried in Ocean view Cemetery on March 27 1911. His undertakers name was A. Livingston from 245 Grand Street.[2] When looking through “Heritage Quest online,” on the 1910 census [3] I found many men who were named Louis Rosen. The closes one that I saw and which I am thinking that it is the Louis Rosen from the Triangle fire was a thirty-seven years old man who had a wife and five children.[4] Once again due to the horrible handwriting I only was able to interpret that he had four daughters and one son. His wife age was thirty-six, his daughter’s age from oldest to youngest was sixteen, fourteen, eleven, and four. His son’s age was nine. And the only name I saw from his daughters was Sarah. Who if I found the correct Sarah, according to the 1920 census became a nurse.[5] The Triangle Fire, “Castle Garden” website, newspapers, the Report of the Red Cross Emergency Relief Committee of the Charity organization society of the City of N.Y. book and the New York City Directories either had so many Louis Rosen that I was unable to find the one who was the Triangle fire victim or had no results for me to search in.[6]
The case that was the closest to Louis Rosen in the Red Cross Emergency Relief Committee of the Charity organization society of the City of N.Y. book was case number 130. It read, “No. 130 (Russian). A man , 33 years old was killed, leaving a wife and two children six and five years of age. He was a contract operator, making about $25.00 per week. His wife was related to one of the proprietors, and had not accustomed to work. A woman in Philadelphia claimed to be the deserted wife of the dead man but all the evidence tended to disprove this. After the disaster the woman and her children went to Yonkers, where she had relatives, and within a few weeks she found a little store in which she wished to purchase. As she seemed capable of making a success in the business and the proposed investment seemed advantageous, $1000.00 was given to her for this purpose on May 22. In November it was learned that she was doing so well in the store that she had engaged a maid….(page was rip) order to have time enough to attend to all the business. A final appropriation of $500.00 was placed with the United Hebrew charities as a reserve fund in case of illness or other emergency in the next few months; and $3000.00 was set aside as a trust fund for the two children, also in the hands of the United Hebrew charities. (4610.00)" [7] References
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