Yahuda Hochzeit

 The Marietta Times, March 9, 1898

The first orthodox Hebrew wedding ever solemnized in Marietta was that of Mr. Israel Evin and Miss Jetes Feika which took place at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Newman on Butler Street Friday evening, the bride, who has not been long in this country, being a sister of Mrs. Newman's and a cousin to Mr. A. Feika the tobacco and cigar merchant. Mr. Evin came here recently and is in business on Greene Street. A good sized company had been invited most of them Hebrews but a few Gentiles were present.

It is not our purpose to dwell on the manliness of the groom or the loveliness of the bride as these qualities are always taken for granted, but to briefly describe the spectacular part of the ceremony We cannot tell the pledges Rabbi Terscheid required them to make as, to us, Hebrew is one of the dead languages and we cannot resurrect it at will.

When the hour had come a canopy was erected which was made of embroidered cloth supported by poles which were held up by a man at each of the four corners. The broom was brought forward by an attendant and stationed under the canopy facing the Rabbi; then the bride with two attendants came forth and marched a number of times around the groom, finally taking a position to his left. All of those present had been supplied with wax tapers which they lighted and held in their uplifted hands all standing and the Rabbi, groom and other gentlemen with their hats on. 

All was now ready and the Rabbi began chanting the ceremony, which has come down through the ages from the time of Aaron, in a musical and melodious voice. As we listened we could not help thinking of the wonderful preservation of the ceremonies, the religion and the individuality of this people through all the vicissitudes of time for thousands of years.

A ring was placed upon the finger of the bride by the groom and near the close a wine glass was crushed under foot by the latter. A contract written in Hebrew which was signed by both parties was read and given into the custody of the bride. With singing, also in Hebrew, the marriage was over and two souls had been made one. The ceremonies were pretty and impressive and brought tears to the eyes of some of those who understood them.

After the wedding refreshments were served, the seats at the long tables were filled and full justice was done to the ample repast. As the newly married ones had not been permitted to partake of food from sundown to the evening before, they were no doubt ready to break their fast of more than twenty-four hours.

When all, except Mr. Fragner, had been fully satisfied, Mr. M. S. Luchs took charge as toast master and responses were in order. The first call was upon the representative of the Times and the company soon had all of his speechmaking they wanted and were delighted to applaud him for stopping so soon. Appropriate responses which were well received were made by Messrs. E. S. Alderman, Marcus Unger, Peter Unger, Rabbi Terscheid and others. Mr. P. Fragner made at least sixteen speeches and was always applauded - when he sat down.

One of the very pleasant features of the evening was the singing in Hebrew, German and English which was led by Mr. Miller who is certainly an artist. We thoroughly enjoyed the occasion. The festivities were closed with dancing. There was no Miriam with a timbrel but some Sons of Ham, with more modern instruments, made the music. We are notified that there will soon be another Hebrew wedding and are sure it will mean another "hot time in the old town."

Interesting Suit

The Marietta Register, July 12, 1866:

Mong Chaw Loo, who lectured in Marietta on the evenings of July 1st and 2d, has brought suit against the Muskingum river packet J. H. Best, because he was refused a seat at the first table on that boat last week, on which he was a passenger having paid full fare - refused for being a "colored person." He lays his damages at $5,000 for "mental and bodily anguish suffered." Ewart, Shaw & Sibley for the plaintiff; Knowles & Loomis for the defendant.

Mong Chaw Loo is a native of Burmah in Asia. He is about 25 years of age, and has been in this country eight years, obtaining an education. He is a graduate of the Baptist Literary and Theological Institution at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He has been studying medicine at Cleveland and expects to attend medical lectures at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, during the coming year, preparatory to returning to his native Burmah as a Missionary.

"Shaw Loo" 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw_Loo

According to Washington County, Ohio, Common Pleas Court Journal, Volume 17, page 364, the case of "Mong Shaw Loo" was continued until February 2, 1869, when it was "settled and costs paid."  

Mong Chaw Loo is identified as "Shaw Loo" in a Wikipedia entry. He was born in 1839 in Moulmein, Myanmar, Burma. In 1857, he traveled to the United States and enrolled at Lewisburg University (now Bucknell), the first Burmese student to study in the U.S. Following graduation, he enrolled in the Cleveland Medical College (now Case Western Reserve School of Medicine), receiving an M.D. in 1867. Upon returning to Burma, he entered a lifelong career as a physician and author in Moulmein. Shaw Loo is called the "father of modern medicine" in Myanmar. He died in 1929, aged 90. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw_Loo

Scotch Emigrants and Nahum Ward

American Friend & Marietta Gazette, June 26, 1823

It gave me much pleasure a few days since to notice the arrival of a company of Scotch Emigrants to this part of the state of Ohio, sent out by our enterprising townsman, Mr. Ward. From their appearance, I have no doubt that they will make valuable citizens.

Others are on the road, and will probably arrive in a few days.

The manner in which this business is conducted is such as to reflect much credit on Mr. Ward: and is really advantageous to the emigrants in a pecuniary point of view. Those emigrants who have come into the United States, without any acquaintance to direct or advise them, without a knowledge of the country, the mode of travelling, and the prices of such articles as they must necessarily purchase, have generally expended their little all by loitering in the cities and on the roads defrauded by almost every one with whom they have intercourse - and eventually purchasing land, unsuitable for them, at enormous prices. These emigrants, on the contrary, bargained for their land with Mr. Ward, paid one half the amount of the purchase in Scotland, and the remainder to be paid in three years. If the land, as regards soil, situation, &c. &c. has not been correctly described to them they are released from their contracts, and the amounts which may have been paid is refunded.

They come here under his direction, his friends and agents have the means of conveyance from place to place, in readiness for them immediately on the arrival, and at a price too much below what they themselves could have obtained them for; they do not tarry, are not liable to be defrauded in the purchase of every little article which they may want: and they travel with an expedition which is very unusual even for those well acquainted with the country. When they have arrived on their land they find in most instances, a comfortable house provided for them and above all they are acquainted with the character of every neighbor with whom they must come in contact.

Taken in this light, and this is a correct view of the business, they, in my opinion, are really gainers should they pay three or four times the price for land, to Mr. Ward, for which an intelligent person, long resident in this country, would purchase it.

P.

Aliens Will Be Sent Home

 Marietta Daily Times, June 24, 1919

Columbus, O. - Aliens in state institutions will be shipped. The first vanguard of a wholesale exodus of undesirables will probably start within a month.

The board of administration wired today to the government immigration bureau for 150 sets of deportation papers.

Investigation of 20 state institutions disclosed that there are aliens of 59 different nationalities being supported out of state funds.

In the fiscal year ending Saturday, 976 out of 2,662 persons admitted to state institutions were foreign born. Germans, Russians and Hungarians lead in the order named, the investigation showed.

The campaign to rid the state of undesirable wards will not end with the deportation of the first 150, President Riddle of the board of administration said today. "We will clean them all out. We need room at the institutions for American citizens," he declared.

Chinese Fortune Goes To Widow of George On Yick A Former Local Laundryman

 The Register-Leader, July 31, 1916

The widow of the late George On Yick, who for a number of years conducted a Chinese laundry in this city, will receive a sum from his estate sufficient to constitute a fortune in China. The following from the Canton, Ohio, News gives an account of the appeal made by the widow for the estate. On Yick after leaving Marietta took the American name of George Edwards:

Nearly $1,000, enough to constitute a fortune in China, will be sent from the probate court here to the widow of Chan Lung, also known as George Edwards, who died here two years ago.

The widow, Heng Shi, has just been located through the American Consul at Hong Kong and with the assistance of Edwards' friends here.

In a unique letter just received by probate court, the widow says she is in great need and pleads for the money.

Edwards was proprietor of a laundry and left an estate which, after the payment of claims and bills, is worth $926. Ralph Whitacar, the administrator of his estate, has asked the court for permission to send the money to the widow in care of the American consul. The application probably will be granted.

Edwards was converted to the Christian faith by Rev. George E. Jackson when both lived in Marietta, Ohio, and was such a devoted friend that he followed Jackson to Canton when the later came to take charge of the First Presbyterian church. He dropped his native name of Chan Lung and adopted the pastor's name, George Edwards.

The widow's letter, a literal translation of which is on file in probate court, was written to an Americanized friend in Canton and is as follows:

"Hoy Pan, Kwantung, China, June 10, 1916.

"Mr. Chak Po:

"As far as that money has concerned which I have trust on you all of my confidence and responsibility to prosecute or to collect it but at now have has nothing of the news of accomplishment of that unfortunate money is heard about. I am extremely anxious of that for not understanding of the mysterious question which had pending of the decision.

"On the completion of investigating and examining by the American consul in Canton, on me was so satisfactorily, I thought the money would send to me through the consul as soon as his letter had reach the American court, but instead of that, waiting day after day, month after month, and even indefinitely. Further on I have heard some one said that no Chinese subject having died in the U. S. after three years pass, whatever he had possess or property that he own, which hold by the government, shall not allow to prosecute. In consequence of that reason I am fear more and more.

"I have inform you that you are plan to spend your vacation of this summer on visit to your old native land. If you are so, must finish that matter before you go home. Believe in me that I am so poor. Pity on me that I am so distress. Help me all you can to get back money! Help me! Help me, help!

"I humbly praise you help me to get it as soon as the fireman to get water rescue the house on fire.

"In-as-so-much as the money would need for such emergency and moreover at present in China everything so dear increase in their value. For sample the rice per catty cost $1.20. The original price only 80 cents. Seems double the price. Indirectly or directly cause by this great World War and even by the unsteadiness of our own government.

"If you are not to ask the judge to send those money I shall be as Confucius had visited in the country of Chan.

"Your very true friend,

Heng Shi, the wife of Chan Lung."