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Ben and Rachel met and married in Montreal, likely around 1906 or 1907. Their first son Harry was born there in 1910, the same year Ben emigrated to Chicago. Rachel and Harry followed a few months later. In Chicago, they had six more children and possibly two others that were either stillborn or died in infancy. Their descendents make up much of the Nemenoff line in America.
Rachel gave Ben the gold ring pictured here as a wedding gift. Ben’s initials are inscribed on it, with the “B” overlapping the “N.”
According to Ben’s U.S. immigration documents, they lived at 10 Royal Lane in Montreal. According to the Chicago Public Library, which maintains copies of old phone directories, Ben and Rachel lived at a minimum of two places prior to his death in 1929: 1143 N. Rockwell and 1444 N. Talman, both of which are in the Humboldt Park area on the northwest side of Chicago. They were living at the Talman address when he died, and they very likely lived at multiple other addresses that are undocumented.
Their names along with those of five of their children (Harry, Jacob [Jack], Isadore, Sophia, and Max [Martin, Husky]) are listed in the 1920 U.S. Census. Their sixth child David was born in 1920, their last, Eva, was born later. They are listed on lines 84-90 on the Census form that has been enlarged below. An Adobe Acrobat file of the full form is also below.
Nemenoff Family History 