FAIRMONT - MARION COUNTY - WEST VIRGINIA
The Former Jewish Community of Fairmont
Jewish Families That Once Lived in Fairmont and Vicinity
Abrams, Apple, Baer, Berle, Block, Bressler, Brile, Broidy, Cantor, Caplan, Cohen, Congress, Daniels, Davis, Dorin, Dudy, Fields, Fink, Funt, Gallob, Goffan, Golden, Goldfuss, Goloff, Goodman, Gordon, Green, Greenberg, Gross, Grossman, Hammersmith, Hearst, Hirsch, Hoffman, Jaffe, Josephson, Kaufman, Kessler, Kishony, Klau, Kronenberg, Levine, Linton, Lipson, Mansbach, Marr, Meyers, Miller, Nelson, Nusbaum, Oliker, Osgood, Pickus, Pollock, Raphaelson, Reitman, Ronay, Rose, Rosenshine, Rutkin, Sabitai, Salz, Sapper, Schoolnic, Self, Silverman, Sivin, Smith, Stevens, Susskind, Tevers, Wanetick, Weiner, Weintrob, Zosloff
Jewish Businesses and Merchants
Greenberg Shirt Factory
Fairmont Aluminum Company - established in 1925 by Lawrence M. Brile
Standard Furniture Company - 321 Jackson Street, begun by Harry N. Pollock in 1921.
Golden Brothers Department Store - On Golden Corner" Madison & Main Streets
Grossman’s Jewelers - 216 Adams Street
Abe Harrison - workingman’s clothing merchant. Later sold business which was to become Golden Brothers Department Store.
Emil Hirsch - merchant
Abraham Klein - merchant
Levin’s Clothing Store
Mont Levine, Inc. - East Side Beltline & Auburn Street - Steel service center. Distributor of angles & channels, bars, beams, sheets, steel, tubing & wire cloth
Jacob Miller - merchant and also scrap metal dealer
Nathan Pickus - retail clothing from 1908-1911, later moved to Beckley, WV.
Abe and Isadore Reitman - retail grocery business, prominent merchant.
Above are some ads, 1964 & 1967, from well-known Jewish businesses in Fairmont.
They are from the local high school yearbook
Golden Brothers Store - Main & Madison Streets, 1920's
Fairmont Jewish Community Cemetery - Garden of the Ten Commandments
Beverly Hills Memorial Gardens - Morgantown, West Virginia
Click HERE for Photographs & Tombstone Data
More Photos & Information Coming Soon
