Louis Bogage Family

Early Life in America

By early 1915, he was living in New York City where he found work painting apartments in Harlem and discovered Annie Dobrin, a fellow immigrant from Vitebsk, Russia, who had arrived in the U.S. in 1912. They were married on August 7, 1915, at the Uptown Talmud Torah, and began their married life on East 110th Street. Their child, Benjamin, was born on September 29, 1916. (On Ben's birth certificate, his father's occupation is listed as "pickles" -- he sold pickles.) Annie died at Sydenham Hospital[11] on October 8 from complications of childbirth, termed labor pneumonia.

Caring for children, especially in 1916, was a woman's job. Without a wife to care for Ben, Lazer enlisted his sister-in-law Feige to help. He moved to Trenton and worked at the Trenton Watch Company with Yoine.

Whether for love or expediency, Lazer married Russian immigrant Sarah Laden, daughter of Joseph and Golde, in Trenton, NJ at 10 pm on May 25, 1918, with "John Bogage" of 191 Locust Street as a witness.