Furriers in Massachusetts and NYC
SBWe...@aol.com
anyone aware of other furrier resources? Or is anyone familiar with WEINERs
in the fur business in Massachusetts or New York City?
My grandfather Edward WEINER operated a fur store in Lowell, Massachusetts
which he founded in the 1930s. Edward also studied to be a furrier in New
York City during the 1930s -- was there such a thing as "furrier school"?
Earlier he had worked in his father Charles WEINER's fur store in Lawrence,
Mass. which Charles founded in the 1890s and which also functioned briefly as
a department store until the Depression hit. I believe that Charles' store
also had a branch in Haverhill, Mass.
Also, based on census records it appears that my greatgrandfather's brother
William WEINER, who emigrated to the U.S. in 1903, worked as a skinner in a
fur factory in New York City.
The family came from Sudilkov in the present-day Ukraine. Is the fur trade
associated with any particular geographic locations in Europe (I saw the
posting about Leipzig).
Also, is the fur trade associated with cap-making? I believe that the
earliest listing of my greatgrandfather in a city directory refers to him as
a cap maker.
Susan Weiner
Boston, Mass.
mailto:sbwe...@AOL.COM
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