Magaziners of Humenne

Updated 6/5/2009

	Fannie Magaziner Rosenthal (Feige) Fannie Magaziner (born Feige) was Henry's first daughter, and the first child of Cecelia, born on December 12, 1865.1. She was a dressmaker,2 and was probably one of the three dressmaker daughters that were the first of the Magaziners to arrive in Philadelphia.3 Fannie was the first of the Magaziner children to marry, marrying Alfred Rosenthal, an American-born son of German immigrants, on April 11, 1888.4 Fannie and Alfred had four children: Willard Magaziner Rosenthal, Henrietta "Etta" Rosenthal,5 Simon Henry Rosenthal and Alexander Rosenthal.6 Simon Henry was a founder of the accounting firm of Goldenberg Rosenthal LLP, which later merged with Alex's accounting firm.7 The firm continued to exist in Jenkintown, PA until Alex's death in 2008 at the age of 102, when the firm was acquired by Amper, Politziner & Mattia..8 Fannie died on October 8, 1935 at the age of 69.9
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Footnotes

1. According to the Humenne Jewish birth registry. Fannie's 1888 Phildelphia marriage license gives her date of birth as 12/12/1866, and other records give the year 1866 or 1868; however, the birth registry seems clear and the most reliable source. Fannie's

2. According to her 1888 Philadelphia marriage license and the 1910 United States census.

3. According to a story passed down by Louis Magaziner, the first Magaziners to arrive in Philadelphia were three daughters who were dressmakers. Fannie, as the oldest daughter and known to be a dressmaker, was certainly one of them.

4. According to her 1888 Philadelphia marriage license.

5. An "Etta Rosenthal" is listed as being in attendance at the wedding of Anna Magaziner and Maurice Neufeld and at the wedding of Nellie Magaziner and Howard Lang in Jewish Exponent wedding notices.

6. The children's names are found on United States census records from 1900, 1910 and 1920. In the 1920 census, son "Simon H." is listed as a C.P.A. The identification of son Simon Henry with prominent accountant S. Henry Rosenthal is further bolstered by Sadie Magaziner's Social Security application, which indicates that Sadie works for the Markovitz Trust Fund (a charitable fund created upon her husband's death) c/o S. Henry Rosenthal, and has been confirmed by members of the family and by the accounting firm.

7. Alex's obituaries discuss the development of Goldenberg, founded in 1919 by Simon Henry and another man, later merging with the firm that Alex founded in 1929.

8. The former Goldenberg Rosenthal website indicates that the firm "combined" with Amper Politziner effective August 1, 2008, which was six months after Alex's death.

9. According to her obituary in the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent.

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