Tag Archives: Rhine

Where did our names come from?

In my post Who put the ‘h’ in Ghertner, I discussed the origin of that name, from ‘gardener’. I’ve just tackled some of the surnames of some of your Jewish ancestors. The fact they had Jewish names is a clue … Continue reading

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Mud-slinging, Mayhem & Murder

In January 1865,  teen age brothers Charles &  Michael Henry De Young and an elder brother Gustavus (who were all uncles of Edward Rhine, 1st cousin 2x removed of Jean (Bloom) Ghertner started a San Francisco entertainment slanted newspaper, The Daily … Continue reading

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Rhine (my mom’s grandmother)

Solomon G. Rhine (1829-1875) and Fredrika Rhine (1846-??) were the maternal grandparents of my grandfather, John Ryan Rhine Bloom. Solomon Rhine was born in Germany , emigrated to America in 1845 and became a naturalized US citizen 31 Jan 1851..  Fredrika was … Continue reading

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Charles A Bloom and Grace Rhine, my great grandparents

Beginning with the 1920 US Census for Pine Bluff, Grace M. Bloom, enumerated as ‘widowed mother’ or the ‘head-of household’ with my grandparents, John R. Bloom and Emma Marie (Block) Bloom. Later, I found my grandfather, John Ryan Rhine Bloom, … Continue reading

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Bloom

See 4 generations of Bloom’s The Bloom family from Germany was prominent in Pine Bluff, Arkansas from the mid-1850s to the 1930s in business and politics. John Bloom (b. 1832 in Germany-1883) and his brother David (1824-1889) first arrived in … Continue reading

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