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Size | 41 items |
Abstract | Born to a family of Jewish craftspeople near Riga, Latvia, Charles Louis Schlom emigrated to America to avoid religious persecution, and, in 1908, settled in Greenville, Miss., where he operated a jewelry store. The collection includes documents related to the Schlom family in Latvia; legal and financial papers, including the naturalization papers, property deed and loan papers, and last will and testament of Charles Louis Schlom; letters and materials sent to Schlom and newspaper clippings related to the purchase and operation of his Greenville, Miss., jewelry store; photographs of Charles Louis Schlom, family members, and the store; a biographical sketch of Charles Louis Schlom by his oldest daughter, Zelda Schlom Sachs; and other materials. |
Creator | Schlom, Charles Louis, 1880-1950. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English Russian German Hebrew |
Processed by: Amanda Ross, January 2008
Encoded by: Amanda Ross, January 2008
Updated by: Amy Morgan and Jodi Berkowitz, March 2019
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Born in 1880 to a family of Jewish craftspeople near Riga, Latvia, Charles Louis Schlom emigrated to America to avoid religious persecution. He and his grandmother came to the United States through Galveston, Tex. As an adult, Charles Louis Schlom traveled throughout the American South, eventually opening a tailoring shop in Memphis, Tenn. In November 1905, Schlom became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He married Nellie Ethel Freeman, and the two followed his friend, Marcy Hartman, to Greenville, Miss., in April 1908. That June, the couple's first child, Zelda Schlom (later Sachs), was born. Three more children followed: Lillian (1910), David (1912), and Fannie Helene (1919). Schlom purchased a jewelry store in 1908, which he expanded and passed on to his relations. Zelda and her husband Irvin Sachs took over the business in 1945. Their daughter Joanne Sachs Skibell and her husband Bernard Skibell moved to Greenville, Miss., in 1955 to become active in the family business.
Back to TopThe collection includes documents related to the Schlom family, a Jewish family of craftspeople in Latvia; legal and financial papers, including the naturalization papers, property deed and loan papers, and last will and testament of merchant Charles Louis Schlom; letters and materials sent to Schlom and newspaper clippings related to the purchase and operation of his Greenville, Miss., jewelry store; photographs of Charles Louis Schlom, family members, and the store; a biographical sketch of Charles Louis Schlom by his oldest daughter, Zelda Schlom Sachs; and other materials.
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Documents, 1874-1893 and undatedIncludes a report card and six other documents related to the Schlom family in Latvia (in Russian, German, and Hebrew). |
Folder 2 |
Legal and financial papers, 1905-1944 and undated |
Folder 3 |
Letters, clippings, and related material, 1908-1983; biographical sketch, undatedIncludes six scattered letters on personal and business matters. In the earliest letter, Marcy Hartman encouraged Charles Louis Schlom to purchase the jewelry store of a Mr. Klein, writing on 15 February 1908, "Greenville is a splendid business point, a good, healthy place to live in, where you could mingle, both socially and commercially, with those of your own race as well as our Christian brethren." Also includes an eye-test card, newspaper clippings related to the purchase and operation of the Greenville, Miss., jewelry store, and a biographical sketch of Charles Louis Schlom by Zelda Schlom Sachs. |
Image Folder PF-5313/1 |
Photographs, 1899-1940sIncludes photographs of Charles Louis Schlom, family members, and the jewelry store. |
Acquisitions information: Accession 102169
The Addition of 2015 consists of a Lincoln Essay Award medal received by Zelda Schlom, June 1925; "Jews in Early Mississippi" by Leo and Evely Turitz; an article, and a black and white photograph of the jewelry store interior with "C. M. Schlom, Mr. Freed (watchmaker), and Mrs. Ida Day."