Many family members know that Joseph Friedman “Bompa” Block and Raymond and Sam Block started Block Realty. Few of us have any clue as to Pappy’s jobs.
- Office Clerk – Wholesale dry goods (1920 Census in Harris County Texas)
- Real Estate dealer (1930 Census in Little Rock)
- Civilian Conservation Corps, the CCC (part of FDR’s New Deal, a public relief work program for unemployed family men between 1933-1942)
- Solomon Block(Great grandfather of Jean Bloom)
- Tobacco & liquor wholesaler-distributor with several stores (US Tax records)
- Co-owned a 1900 acre sugar plantation in Bayou Teche, Louisiana ( Adolph Felsenthal article ‘Almost Three Score and Ten‘ in Arkansas Gazette newspaper 1930s)
- Emile Levy (great grandfather of Jean Bloom)
- Bookkeeper (1900 Census in Little Rock, Ark)
- Joseph Friedman Block (son of Solomon Block)
- Cigar proprietor (1900 Census in Dallas) (see this about embezzling by his brother John Edward Block)
- Cigarette business (1910 Census in Little Rock [one census shown as example, orange column is for occupation and trade/industry])
- Cigar manufacturer (1920 [H.S Cigar Co]Census in Little Rock))
- Handled cigars & insurance and real estate business (Carolyn Gray LeMaster A Corner of the Tapestry p 126)
- John Edward Block (Son of Solomon Block)
- Cigar (H.S Cigar) manufacturer (1900 & 1920 Census in Dallas) (he may have embezzled funds from the business)
- Paymaster at cigar manufacturer (1910 in Dallas)
- his wife Rachel Bloch worked in the cigar business as a stenographer (1900 Census)
- Charles Henry Block (son of Solomon Block)
- Salesman, Millenry ?? (1910 Census in St Louis)
- Secretary & Treasurer of Delmar Mfg (1918 World War I Draft card information) Delmar “Our trade will last as long as babies are born without caps”was manufacturer of “Infant and Children’s Caps, Bonnets & Misses Millenry, Ladies Boudoir Caps, “May Rockwood” and D.M.C. Automobile Hats,Sport Hats, Patented “Non-Skid” Hats, Etc.
- Raymond Emile Block (son of Joseph Friedman Block)
- Solicitor at Cigar mfg (1910 Census in Dallas [one census shown as example, orange column is for occupation and trade/industry])
- Member of Firm (H. S Cigar 1920 Census in Little Rock)
- Realtor (1930 US Census)
- Samuel Alexander Block (son of Joseph Friedman Block)
- Bookkepper at Cigar mfg (1910 Census in Dallas [one census shown as example, orange column is for occupation and trade/industry])
- Member of Firm (H. S Cigar 1920 Census in Little Rock)
- Realtor (1930 US Census in Little Rock)
- Lewis Solomon Block (son of Joseph Friedman Block)
- Member of Firm (H. S Cigar 1920 Census in Little Rock)
- Real Estate salesman (1930 Census in Little Rock)
- Dr. Isidore Block (son of Solomon Block)
- Optician (1920 Census in McLennan, Texas)
- Leonard A Block (son of John Edward Block)
- Travelling salesman (cigars) in (1920 Census)
- Proprietor (Sporting goods) in (1930 Census)
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