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 1789 - 1856 (67 years)
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| Name |
Jacob Gratz [3] |
| Born |
20 Dec 1789 [3, 4] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Alt. Burial |
Spruce Street Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  [5] |
| Reference Number |
1844 |
| Buried |
Dec 1856 |
Mikva Israel - Federal Street Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA [6, 7] |
| Died |
25 Dec 1856 [3, 4] |
| Person ID |
I1844 |
aojd |
| Last Modified |
11 Nov 2011 |
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| Notes |
- Jacob Gratz (1790-1856) served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and State Senate. Simon Gratz (1773-1839) and Hyman Gratz (1776-1857) inherited their father's business. Their store was at the Graff House <http://www.ushistory.org/tour/tour_graff.htm> (7th & Market) where Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. Both Simon and Hyman Gratz were treasurers of Mikveh Israel. They were among the founders of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts <http://www.pafa.org/splashFlash.jsp>. Simon served in the Pennsylvania Volunteers during the war of 1812. Hyman was one of the managers of the first Jewish Publication Society, founded by Reverend Isaac Leeser in 1845. The will of Hyman Gratz established a trust fund for his descendants with the provision that after no descendants were living, the entire estate came into possession of Congregation Mikveh Israel "for a College for the Education of Jews." Gratz College, founded 1893, is now a separate institution in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania.
Anne Joseph:
Jacob Gratz, who received his Master of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1811, was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and in 1839 was elected to the State Senate. He was President of the Union Canal Co. Source: The Jewish Cemetery by Leon H. Elmaleh (1962) [6]
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- [S285] .
- [S4] PG. 87 GRATZ (1) (Reliability: 3).
- [S47] .
- [S81] (Reliability: 3).
- [S392] HTTP://WWW.MIKVEHISRAEL.ORG/THECEMETERIES/ (Reliability: 3).
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