Emigrated Kiev, Russia via Hamburg to New York, NY through Castle Garden, NYC with Carr Steamship Lines, aboard German Steamer “Australia”, steerage, departing on 18 June 1882. Age 16. Ship manifest listing as Isaak Spitkowski.

US Federal census 1900 vol. 188, ED 870, sheet 5, line 15: Res. 3059 Hartville St., Philadelphia, PA; bd listed as june 1869, immigrated to US in 1882, naturalized citizen, curtain weaver.

US Federal Census 1920 vol. 294, ED 1514, sheet 10, line 20: resided at #598 W. 191 St., New York, Manhattan Co., NY with wife Mary, son Edward and father-in-law Jesse Yussam, yr. immigrated to US listed as 1881, yr. naturalized as citizen listed as 1896, occupation listed as manufactuer of feathers (plumes).

Citizenship: Common Pleas, Passaic Co., Passaic NJ USA, 24 April 1888

Ship Manifest 25 June 1914, Liverpool - NYC, listed name, date and location of court which issued Naturalization papers as: Peterson, NJ, 1888 (could this be Patterson, NJ?). Current address: 111 W. 48th St. NY