Louis Kutner

1870s–1890s

Born about 1872–1877 in the Russian Empire. Married Golde Ostaszewer about 1899; their daughter Rose was born in Poland around then.

1900s

Daughter Stella was born about 1902 in Warsaw and son Benjamin about 1904. Came to America in 1904, with his family following around 1907–1908.

1910s–1920s

Ran his own moving-van business in Brooklyn, living on Seigel, Ellery, and Hopkins Streets. More children were born in New York; daughter Beckie died in 1920 and his youngest, Helen, was born in 1925.

1940s

Still living in 1948, when he and Goldie attended their daughter Helen's wedding.

A Brooklyn Expressman

Louis Kutner, also called Lazer, was born in the Russian Empire around 1872 to 1877. About 1899 he married Golde Ostaszewer. Their daughter Rose was born around that time in Plosk, Poland, Stella (Ben's great-grandmother) about 1902 in Warsaw, and a son, Benjamin, about 1904. That year Louis went ahead to America, and Golde and the children followed around 1907 or 1908.

The family settled in Brooklyn. In 1910 they lived at 57 Seigel Street, and Louis ran his own business as a moving-van expressman, hauling goods with his own van; he is also remembered as a piano mover. By 1915 they had moved to Ellery Street, and in 1920 to Hopkins Street, where Louis was working as a wagon driver. The household kept growing: Rebecca, called Beckie, was born about 1910, Pauline (Pearl) about 1912, Sylvia about 1917, and Helen, the youngest, in June 1925. There were sorrows too. Benjamin seems to have died young, sometime between 1910 and 1915, and Beckie died at the Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn in November 1920, at ten.

Louis lived to see his children married. In 1948 he and Golde went to Helen's wedding to Murray Breslin. When and where he died has not been found.