Finding aid for the Simon L. Lipson Family Papers


Repository: Western Reserve Historical Society
Creator: Lipson, Simon L. Family
Title: Simon L. Lipson Family Papers
Dates: 1885-1973
Extent: 0.40 linear feet (1 container)
Abstract: Sander Lipshitz was a Russian rabbi who immigrated to the United States in 1892. The family name was later Americanized to Lipson. Simon and David Lipson founded the Eagle Wholesale Grocery Company in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1916. The collection consists of newspaper clippings and other printed material, an account book and notebooks, legal and financial papers relating to the Eagle Wholesale Grocery Company, poetry and articles by Simon and David Lipson, and family correspondence, mostly from Simon Lipson and Sander Lipshitz.
MS Number MS 3649
Location: closed stacks
Language: The records are in English, Yiddish and Hebrew