The Nurenbergs of the Northeast Kingdom

The history of Congregation Beth-El in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, mentions two men surnamed Nurenberg in the 1920 Census: Abraham, a furrier and junk dealer, and his boarder, Morris, also listed as a junk dealer. Whether the two were related is an open question -- the Census doesn't say they were, yet since they both came from "Russia" and were among the seven Jews in town at that time, it seems likely there was some connection.

Abraham was born in Kiev, Russia, as was his wife Bessie (Schaeffer), according to the birth record shown here for their fifth child, Solomon. I was able to find some other children of theirs in various records online: Edna, Israel, Miriam, Morris, Rebecca, Samuel, Sarah, and William. Was the Morris mentioned here the same one who was "boarding" with Abraham in 1920? Perhaps.

Here's the separate pool of data on Morris, who was called Moshe. Born on May 7, 1892, in Russia, he died in Lyndonville, Vermont, on March 4, 1980. His descendants in Maine seem to have known more about his wife Fannie Mary Schwey than about Morris -- the pair were married on Jan. 25, 1923, in Portland, Maine, which they left right away to live near Morris's family, on Broad Street in Lyndonville. [Fannie was the daughter of Isaac Schwey (1868-1944) and Katie G. Cotton (1866-1942), both born in Russia and immigrants to Portland, Maine, in 1907 -- apparently via Leeds, Kent, England, where Fannie was born on May 28, 1894. Fannie's siblings were Diana (1899-1986) (married Philip Paul Resnick and had three children), Sarah (1901-1973), and Janette (1908-1993).]

Dave is sure, although I haven't found documentation yet, that Morris (Moshe) was the father of Sidney Nurenberg, born in 1923 in St. Johnsbury and still living with his wife Ruth Margaret McCann in the area. This couple married in 1947. Sidney is included in an author-published book called "Soft Drink Bottlers of the United States, Volume 1, Vermont & New Hampshire," by Dennis G. Fewless and Christopher A. Wade.

Where was Sid's bottling plant? And when? I have information on one that preceded it -- in the 1920s, an "Orange Crush" bottling plant in St Johnsbury, at what is now 301 Cliff Street, and later on, a home-based soda company formed in town in 2011 for Kent's Soda. Here's a photo (from the 1950s or so) of the interior of a bottling plant in Burlington, to give an idea -- if anyone can contribute something on the Nurenburg bottling operation, that would be very helpful.

Because I'm watching for details of where Jewish families in the area came from and also where they "ended up," I want to also note that many members of the Nurenberg families went to Texas and California in their later years.