Samuel Weinberg of Maryland. Three documents. Three pages. 1848, 1857, 1881.

The documents are: <<*>> A handwritten document issued by Prussian authorities on August 28, 1848. It gives some biographical information for Weinberg, such as his date of birthdate, June 5, 1834, his father’s name, Heinemann Weinberg, and his mother’s name, Adelheid nee Sutro (who was the sister of Rabbi Abraham Sutro, mentor to Isaac Leeser). <<*>> Samuel Weinberg’s US citizenship certificate, issued by the Circuit Court of Frederick County, MD. It attests to Weinberg’s fulfillment of the residential requirements, and his behaving with “good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States,” the “competent testimony” by Weinberg himself, and his renunciation of “allegiance and fidelity to the King of Hanover.” It is dated February 9, 1857, and bears the court seal and signature of the clerk Charles Mantz. <<*>> Samuel Weinberg’s deed to two plots in the Baltimore Fells Point Hebrew Friendship Congregation Cemetery for a fee of $125. It is dated March 28, 1881, and signed by the congregation’s president Seligman Herzberg, and embossed with the congregation’s seal. <<Samuel Weinberg>> (1836-1926) emigrated to the United States from Hanover at age 16 in 1850, and settled in Baltimore, where, typical of his demographic, he took up work as a  peddler. A 1910 volume, “The History of Frederick County, Maryland,” notes that “by dint of perseverance and industry, [he] soon rose in the business world and settled in Frederick in 1860,” where he married and fathered ten children. The Jewish Museum of Maryland holds a manuscript memoir by Weinberg covering the years of his life from 1834 to 1863. <<Also see next lot.>>