Abraham Levinson^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24]}

1865 - 1937  (71 years)

• Name	Abraham Levinson  [2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 23]
  Birth	1 Oct 1865	Vishey, Suwalki governorate, Russian Poland (now Veisiejai, Lithuania)   [24]
  Birth	6 October 1865	Vishey, Suwalki guberniya, Russian Poland (now Veisiejai, Lithuania)   [2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 23]
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Forest Park, Cook County, Illinois, United States of America   [16, 19]
  Arrival	28 Sep 1881	New York City, New York, USA
  		"Perez Levisohn" et al. arrival record
  Marriage (license) of Levinson / Rubin	23 Jan 1887	Chicago, Illinois   [21]
  		Marriage of Levinson / Rubin
  Arrival	1889  [7]
  Residence	1889	Chicago, Illinois, USA   [3]
  Residence	1900	Chicago Ward 9, Cook, Illinois, USA   [13]
  	Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Head / 726 W. Taylor St.
  Residence	1910	Chicago Ward 10, Cook, Illinois, USA   [14]
  	Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
  Arrival	25 Nov 1910	New York, New York, USA   [10]
  Arrival	26 Aug 1911	New York, New York, USA   [9]
  Departure	20 Juli 1912	Hamburg, Deutschland   [1]
  Arrival	1 Aug 1912	New York, New York, USA   [12]
  Arrival	22 Jul 1914	New York, New York, USA   [11]
  Residence	1920	Chicago Ward 34, Cook (Chicago), Illinois, USA   [7]
  	Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Head
  Residence	1930	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA   [8]
  	Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Head
  Death	20 July 1937	Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States of America   [6, 16, 19]
  Abraham Levinson burial in Waldheim cemetery	7 Apr 1938	Chicago, Illinois   [22]
  	Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois · Thursday, April 07, 1938
  		Abraham Levinson burial in Waldheim cemetery
  Arrival	Cuxhaven; Boulogne; Southampton; New York   [1]
  Departure	Hamburg   [9, 12]
  Departure	Liverpool, England   [10]
  Departure	Southampton, England   [11]
  Name	Movsha Smolinski  [24]
  Residence	Chicago   [1]
  Residence	Chicago, Illinois   [2]
  Burial	7 Apr 1938	Forest Park, Cook County, Illinois, USA
  	(Re?)buried in Waldheim cemetery nine months after his death in Los Angeles
  Person ID	I122272319507	Martin Rind Tree
  Last Modified	31 May 2026

  
  

  Father	Isaac Solomon Levinson,   b. 13 Aug 1844, Przerośl, Suwalki guberniya, Russia (now Poland) d. 12 Feb 1916, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Rachel Rogowski,   b. 1838, Przerośl, Suwalki, Russia (now Poland) d. 15 Feb 1889, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	25 Jan 1865	Vishey, Russian Poland (now Veisiejai, Lithuania)   [25, 26]
  Family ID	F1161	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Rubin,   b. 6 March 1865, Vishey, Suwalki governate, Russian Poland (now Veisiejai, Lithuania) d. 15 March 1950, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States of America (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	28 Jan 1887	Cook, Illinois, USA   [5, 13, 18, 23]
  Children	1. Louis Leo Levinson,   b. 31 December 1887, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States of America d. 2 July 1935, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States of America (Age 47 years)   2. David Levinson,   b. 24 Jul 1889, Illinois, USA d. Jun 1973 (Age 83 years)   3. Ralph Levinson,   b. 11 July 1891, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States of America d. 24 October 1916, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States of America (Age 25 years)   4. Geoffrey Levinson,   b. 19 August 1893, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA d. 21 October 1957, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States of America (Age 64 years)   5. Clara Levinson,   b. 20 Jul 1895, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, USA d. 4 Oct 1963, Los Angeles (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F2094	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 May 2026

  
  

• Sources

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[S173682232] Newspapers.com - Chicago Tribune - 23 Jan 1887 - Page 8, (Chicago Tribune), Marriage of Levinson / Rubin 23 Jan 1887. Marriage of Levinson / Rubin [S220921259] Newspapers.com - Chicago Tribune - 7 Apr 1938 - 21, (Chicago Tribune), Obituary for LEVINSON-Abraham Levinson 7 Apr 1938. Abraham Levinson burial in Waldheim cemetery Handwritten memoir of Isadore Levinson. "My brother Sol was working then in the city of Suwalk at his tailor trade. He married there, and after a year passed a boy was born to them, and they named him Abraham. In the year of 1865, brother Isaac Sol was drafted for a soldier in the Russian army" (p. 22). / "My oldest brother's son . . . Abe Levinson" (p. 102). / Of Abe's children: "The oldest [son] is a bookkeeper, the third a brilliant corporation attorney, the second ruined his life and died in his manhood, the fourth, also a lower grade lawyer. Dave the high-grade attorney keeps him, his wife, and [his] daughter in a good living" (p. 104). / "Abe Levinson with his wife Sarah and their daughter Clara" (p. 117). LitvakSIG Lithuania Births. Name: SMOLENSKI, Mowsza / Father, grandfather: Icko, Perec / Mother, grandfather: Rocha, Dawid / Date of birth (DD/MM/CCYY): 1/10/1865 / Town, uzezd, guberniya: Wiejsieje/Veisiejai, Sejny, Suwalki / Comments: father 20 years old worker, mother 22 years old / Place recorded, year, record no.: Veisejai, 1865, 143 Microfilm/item: not filmed / Archive/fond: LVIA/CS/1825/50 Marriage record at JRI-Poland. (Surname is "Smolenski" rather than "Smolinski," but everything else matches:) Wiejsieje 1865 Marriage #3 / Husband / SURNAME: SMOLEŃSKI / Given Name: Szloma / Wife / SURNAME: ROGOWSKA / Given Name: Rajcha / Husband Father / Given Name: Perec / Marriage record at LitvakSIG. Marriage place (town, uyezd, guberniya): Veisejai, Sejny, Suwalki / Marriage date (DD/MM/CCYY): 25/1/1865 / Groom name: SMOLENSKI, Szloma / Bride name: ROGOWSKA, Rajcha / Groom father, mother, place: Perec, son of Ovsey; Chajka, dau of Aron; Prserosl / Bride father, mother, place: Dawid Jankiel, son of Mowsza; Jankiel Jeta, dau of Jankiel; Wiejsieje [Veisiejai] / Groom age: 21 / Bride age: 26 / Comments: husband lives in Veisejai / Rabbi, witness 1, witness 2: Leiba Mortcheliovich SHKOLNIK, Leib Shlomovich EPSHTEIN / Place recorded, year recorded, record type, record no.: Veisejai, 1865, Marriage, 3 / Microfilm no.: not filmed / Archive/fond: LVIA/CS/1825/59