David Nusbaum (grandfather)
When I first saw this picture I joke that David was the first Nusbaum to be a firefighter.
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1. 1883-1967
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2. Born in Tarnopol, Austria which is now part of Poland
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3. He came over on a boat to Ellis Island in what I think was 1912
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4. He listed a sister on his paperwork as his contact in the US in New Jersey
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5. For a time he has a live-in handy man for Thomas Edison
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He woke Edison up every morning.
6. His wife Ester came to the US later
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7. He accumulated some wealth but was hurt badly when the stock market crashed in 1929
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He wasn't ruined, just hurt badly.
8. He and my father didn't get along for a while after my father came back from WWII
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9. They grew closer later in my grandfather's life.
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10. That picture
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He looks exactly like my cousin Hank.
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