Shlomo Segall
This gleaned from Mark’s Family Tree (shown below):
Shlomo’s father was Hanach (Hanoch?). Shlomo married three times:
- To Sarah: Gave birth to
- Mary (m. David Landy),
- William (children Samuel, Sarah, Edward),
- Bessie (m. Sol Sachs; children Selma, Anna, Samuel, Irving, Sophie, Theresa),
- Lena (m. Herman Cassel; children Sarah, Minah (m Leonard Rosenberg; son Jay), Hannah (m Louis Yaffee; children: Bernard, more?), William (m. Cele Gintis; children Rita, Joyce), and Meyer,
- Morris (m. Theresa Berkowitz, sister of Bertha Levy (who ran Camp Wohelo); children Gilbert, Esther, Stanley, Irene, Jeanette, and Sara), and
- Max (m. Jennie Hurwitz; children Esther, Sarah, Dorothy, Julius, Philip, and Helen). See below
- Don’t know name of second wife. No children
- Mary: Gave birth to Hannah (m. Sol Eppel; children David and Sidney)
Max and Jennie Segall Family outside. Children from Left: Dooley, Helen, Esther, Philip, Sara, and Dot
Max (Baruch) Segall
b Riga d Baltimore c 1946
Jennie and her two sisters Dora and Bessie
Max Segall married Jennie (Shayna) Hurwitz (b Riga d Baltimore c 1948). Max’s brother Morris married Jennie’s sister Bessie. Max and Jennie had 6 children (the first, Esther, was born in St. Joseph, MO; the rest, in Medford, MA):
- Esther m. Julius Rosenfeld. Two children who died young without marrying: Selma, a teacher who died of a degenerative disease, and Bobby, who died of leukemia after serving in the military
- Sarah. Career woman. Went to NY to work and never married
- Julius (“Dooley”) m. Mary Fahneroff. One child: Marty. Marty married Phyllis and had 2 sons: Stuart and ?.
- Phillip m. Rose Teichman. Three children: Janet, Joanne, Mark. See later
- Dorothy (Dot) m. Sam Broad. Two children: Larry (m ?) and Shirley (m Joe Kaufman)
- Helen Segall m. Leonard Eisenberg. Two sons: Alan & Jerry
Jennie and Max at son Phillip’s wedding
Max Segall with car in yard of M.B. Segall & Sons building supply store
Max sold coal and Morris sold oil. When they moved to Baltimore, Max opened a business selling hay, feed, and grain for horse-drawn carriages.
Janet says: When we bought the house in Dumbarton, Dooley came out to visit. He looked around the front porch and said, “I remember this place! My father used to bring me out here and set me down on the porch while he bought the feed and grain. We would then take the feed and grain to his store on Pennsylvania Ave. in downtown Baltimore.”
Eventually cars took the place of horse-drawn carriages and so Max opened a building supply store.
Jennie and Max were Shomer Shabbat. They were fond of the opera and would have a non-Jewish maid turn on the radio so they could hear the Metropolitan Opera every Saturday!
Cousins. From l., Marty, Janet, Larry.
Janet thought boys were more interesting to play with than girls. She thought all boys were cousins.
Lisa adds:
All of the Segall girls played piano beautifully. Philip and Rose also did. Philip played by ear and taught himself, although he had taken violin lessons for a while when he was young. Rose took lessons off and on throughout her life. Janet also played piano.
Dooley lost one eye climbing over a fence one day. He smoked a pipe. His son Marty lost his lower leg.
Helen and Sarah
I have no idea what career Sarah had. I don’t know if she was working when I knew her. She lived in Baltimore as long as I knew her. I was told she never married and took care of her mother. She made the best orange and grapefruit peel I ever ate!
Phillip’s sister Esther and Rose. Janet: They always liked each other
Bobby Rosenfeld died in his early 20s. I thought that Selma died of cancer. In any event, she was in her 50s. When Esther’s friends started dying, she was friends with Selma’s friends. Esther died in Boston at age 98 after having 2 heart attacks in a short time, then her kidneys failed her. Until a few weeks before she died, she did the NY Times Sunday crossword puzzle in ink every week. She played piano until her arthritis got bad in her early 80s.
When Rose was a girl, her mother used to keep carp in the bathtub around holiday times, when she would kill them and make gefilte fish. Phillip used to go fishing on Saturdays. If he caught anything, he sometimes brought Janet the fish because Rose couldn’t stand the thought of eating fish!
Helen; Janet on back
Seated from left: Mary, Dot, Shirley and Joe Kaufman. Standing: Alan Eisenberg and his wife
Helen was the first woman accountant in Maryland.
Philip Segall
b Medford, MA, d Baltimore
Childhood in Medford, MA
Philip with curls and stick
Philip (or, as his grandchildren called him, “Pop-Pop Segall) used to have blonde curls. He would speak of his early childhood as “When I was little girl….”
As kids in Medford, Dooley and Philip had to walk to school through an Irish-Italian neighborhood, where they would be beaten up for being Jews.
Baltimore
Philip portrait–in suit
When the family moved to Baltimore, Philip worked for his father, Max.
Philip, in shirtsleeves, next to MB Segall store
Philip holding Bobby Rosenfeld (Esther’s son)
Marriage
Phil and Rose 1922
Phillip at his wedding in Catonsville
Philip married Rose Teichman. Philip and Rose had 3 children: Janet, Joanne (m Myles Eisenstein), and Mark (m Annette Levine).
Lisa adds:
Philip was renowned in the family for smoking cigars. He would sometimes blow smoke rings into the air and his grandchildren would poke their fingers through the rings. Once, Richard and Lisa brought him Janet’s Miracle Whip containers from under the kitchen sink and he blew smoke into them. They quickly closed the jars. When Janet tried to use the jars weeks later they stank to high heaven! After Rose died, Philip came to live with Janet for a few weeks. He sometimes stood at the kitchen sink after dinner washing dishes with his smoking stogie between his lips.
L: Janet, Mark, Phillp, Joanne
When his doctor wanted him to lose weight, he told the doctor, “I’m not fat. My chest slipped.”
When Philip was 75, he pulled a ligament in his leg sliding into second base with a group of 60-year-old men that he played baseball with. He used to throw around 100-lb sacks of cement at work until he retired.
Joanne Estelle (Chana Esther) Segall
b. 2/20/34
Joanne Estelle (Chana Esther) Segall married Myles Eisenstein and had three children: Michael, Bobby, and Bruce.
Mark Segall
Mark (m. Annette Levine) had three children: Andy, Jordy, and Jocelyn.
L, standing: Arnie and Phyllis (Aiken) Brown, Bobby Jacobs, Bobby Eisenstein, Mark Segall. Seated: Trina Jacobs, Joanne & Myles Eisenstein (Eliza Aiken sitting on Joanne’s lap), Bruce Eisenstein, Janet, Annette Segall (m Mark). Photo from Bar Mitzva of Danny, Elan, and Brett Aiken, Jeff’s sons.
Family Photo: Janet Segall & Sidney Aiken’s Wedding
Janet & Sidney’s Wedding Guests
Some of Janet’s Family (and maybe Sidney’s Family in the back rows?). From left:
1st Row: Philip Segall, Rose Teichman Segall, Jennie Segall (Philip’s mother), Lena Gillman, Jacob Gillman, Fischel Goldberg, Uncle Joe
2nd Row: Aunt Anne, Janet’s cousin Rose [Holocaust survivor who came to live with Janet’s family (Philip and Rose) after the War. Spoke French], Ben and Sue Greenberg, Re and Ben Brown, Miriam and Raymond (Jacobs), Gilman
3rd Row: Sylvia Tillis, Ethel and Mo Blumenthal, Sarah and Charles Frank, [next door neighbor in Forest Park], Bobby Jacobs, Burt Brown, ?, ?
4th Row: 7th chair is Larry Broad
