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He was the youngest of three sons born to David and Bert Kayton Rosenheim. He and his brothers, Allan and Robert changed their name from Rosenheim to their mother’s maiden name, Kayton in the 1920’s. When John was about 12 years old, his family moved to New York City. While in Savannah, his father worked with John’s grandfather and two uncles in the Joseph Rosenheim Shoe Company. In New York, his father operated a textile company for a short period and then worked in other businesses.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJohn attended public school in New York City. For high school, he attended Storm King School, a boarding school located in Cornwall-On-Hudson, New York. He initially worked for Dobbs and Company, a hatter company based in Norwalk, Connecticut. In 1932, he started working as a life insurance salesman for Northwestern Mutual and worked for them until his retirement in 1972. During World War II, he served in the United States Army Medical Corps.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eOn October 8, 1941, John married his first wife, Suzanne Jacobs, and they had one son, James. After Suzanne’s death in 1978, he moved from New York back to Savannah. He later married his second wife, Margaret “Peggy” Kayton Appel, and they were married until her death in 1998. He was a member of the Chatham Club, the Savannah Golf Club, and Temple Mickve Israel. John passed away on December 28, 2001, at 95 years old. \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eJohn begins the interview discussing where his parents were born. He talks about how and why he and his two brothers changed their name from Rosenheim to their mother’s maiden name of Kayton. He shares about the Kayton family and information on his mother’s siblings. John recalls the Kayton family business of meat packing and his grandfather and uncle involvement in the business. He discusses the Lewis Kayton family home on Drayton Street and the changes made to the house. He shares a few memories of his aunt, Ruth Kayton Smith. He also talks about the Columbia Drug Company, the business owned by his uncle, Jacob G. Smith.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJohn shares about moving to New York City as a child and what his father did when they moved. He remembers attending public school in New York and later attending Storm King School, a boarding school in Cornwall-On-Hudson, New York. He recalls experiencing very little antisemitism at school. He talks about the first car his father owned and not having a car at boarding school. He shares about his cousins, Ruth and Margaret Kayton, attending college in a time when it was not common for women to go. He discusses his cousin, Ruth Kayton Kauffmann and her son, John. He remembers his grandfather Joseph Rosenheim and his few memories related to the Harmonie Club. John also discusses his grandfather Rosenheim’s involvement with Temple Mickve Israel and the lack of involvement by his family. He spoke about his grandfather Henry Kayton and his two wives.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe recounts how the Rosenheim family settled in Richmond, Virginia before coming to Savannah. John discusses his grandfather, father and two uncles working in the shoe business and where the warehouse was located on Bay Street in Savannah. He shares his memories of the Rosenheim family home in Savannah. He talks about his uncle marrying Rosalind Rich, daughter of Morris Rich. He discusses their son Richard taking the Rich name, how he took over Rich’s department stores, and his involvement in civil rights in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJohn details his memories of the Savannah Golf Course and fortifications built on the course during the Civil War. He mentions how his cousin, Kayton Smith, was a good golfer despite an issue with his right arm. He also discusses his uncle William Weichselbaum Sr., and his cousin William Weichselbaum Jr. John talks about his 40 year career working for Northwestern Life Insurance Company. He recalls his first job working in the hat business. He mentions how his father David Rosenheim and aunt Tess Rosenheim married a sister and brother, Bert Kayton and Herman Kayton. He ends the interview sharing about his son, Jim and daughter-in-law.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/29351"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Kayton, John (né Rosenheim, 1906-2001) (personal name)","Rosenheim, Bert Kayton (1874-1967) (personal name)","Rosenheim, David (1873-1958) (personal name)","Kayton, Allan (né Rosenheim, 1900-1986) (personal name)","Kayton, Robert (né Rosenheim, 1904-1986) (personal name)","Kayton, James (b. 1946) (personal name)","Rosenheim, Joseph (1840-1929) (personal name)","Rosenheim, Herman (1876-1961) (personal name)","Rosenheim, Rosalind Rich (1880-1961) (personal name)","Rich, Richard “Dick” H. 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He was the youngest of three sons born to David and Bert Kayton Rosenheim. He and his brothers, Allan and Robert changed their name from Rosenheim to their mother\u0026rsquo;s maiden name, Kayton in the 1920\u0026rsquo;s. When John was about 12 years old, his family moved to New York City. While in Savannah, his father worked with John\u0026rsquo;s grandfather and two uncles in the Joseph Rosenheim Shoe Company. In New York, his father operated a textile company for a short period and then worked in other businesses.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJohn attended public school in New York City. For high school, he attended Storm King School, a boarding school located in Cornwall-On-Hudson, New York. He initially worked for Dobbs and Company, a hatter company based in Norwalk, Connecticut. In 1932, he started working as a life insurance salesman for Northwestern Mutual and worked for them until his retirement in 1972. During World War II, he served in the United States Army Medical Corps.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eOn October 8, 1941, John married his first wife, Suzanne Jacobs, and they had one son, James. After Suzanne\u0026rsquo;s death in 1978, he moved from New York back to Savannah. He later married his second wife, Margaret \u0026ldquo;Peggy\u0026rdquo; Kayton Appel, and they were married until her death in 1998. He was a member of the Chatham Club, the Savannah Golf Club, and Temple Mickve Israel. John passed away on December 28, 2001, at 95 years old.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn begins the interview discussing where his parents were born. He talks about how and why he and his two brothers changed their name from Rosenheim to their mother\u0026rsquo;s maiden name of Kayton. He shares about the Kayton family and information on his mother\u0026rsquo;s siblings. John recalls the Kayton family business of meat packing and his grandfather and uncle involvement in the business. He discusses the Lewis Kayton family home on Drayton Street and the changes made to the house. He shares a few memories of his aunt, Ruth Kayton Smith. He also talks about the Columbia Drug Company, the business owned by his uncle, Jacob G. Smith.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJohn shares about moving to New York City as a child and what his father did when they moved. He remembers attending public school in New York and later attending Storm King School, a boarding school in Cornwall-On-Hudson, New York. He recalls experiencing very little antisemitism at school. He talks about the first car his father owned and not having a car at boarding school. He shares about his cousins, Ruth and Margaret Kayton, attending college in a time when it was not common for women to go. He discusses his cousin, Ruth Kayton Kauffmann and her son, John. He remembers his grandfather Joseph Rosenheim and his few memories related to the Harmonie Club. John also discusses his grandfather Rosenheim\u0026rsquo;s involvement with Temple Mickve Israel and the lack of involvement by his family. He spoke about his grandfather Henry Kayton and his two wives.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe recounts how the Rosenheim family settled in Richmond, Virginia before coming to Savannah. John discusses his grandfather, father and two uncles working in the shoe business and where the warehouse was located on Bay Street in Savannah. He shares his memories of the Rosenheim family home in Savannah. He talks about his uncle marrying Rosalind Rich, daughter of Morris Rich. 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Today is June 19, 2001, and I'm interviewing Jack Kayton at his apartment at Savannah Square. Jack, I understand you've got a very long and interesting history. I want to hear first about your name since there are two family names involved. First, tell me about the Kayton family and where your family came from.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=17.0,48.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: The family came from Germany originally. I can't tell you specifically. I have a letter in the file. If I'd known you wish that, I would have kept it available. I can't get it for you now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=48.0,70.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Do you remember what town in Germany?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=70.0,74.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: It's kind of mixed up. Not exactly the same as my mother may have told me, but I have a letter which was written from my grandfather . . . to my uncle and that sort of explains it. It's complicated and rather difficult to try to explain it here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=74.0,106.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Do you remember when your father came to Savannah [Georgia]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=106.0,112.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: No, I do not. I was born here, and so was he.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=112.0,116.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: In Savannah?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=116.0,117.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: In Savannah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=117.0,118.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Okay, and what about your mother? What was her . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=118.0,121.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: . . . Same thing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=121.0,122.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: What was her maiden name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=122.0,124.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: Her maiden name was Kayton.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=124.0,126.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Your mother's maiden name, now this is interesting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=126.0,129.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: My mother's maiden name was Kayton.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=129.0,131.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Your father's [name].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=131.0,132.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: My father's name was Rosenheim.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=132.0,136.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=136.0,139.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: Now, the only question in your mind is what happened?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=139.0,143.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=143.0,144.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: Very simple. A change of name from my father to my mother for the purpose of perpetuating the Kayton name, which was better known in Savannah than the other. With the permission of the family, as a matter of fact, a request by the family that the three of my family, my two older brothers and myself. They thought it was better if the three of us in the one family made the change rather than ask one of the Smith boys or one of the Weichselbaum, there's one Weichselbaum boy, to make any changes at the same time. I was a minor at the time, age of 19, so I had nothing to say about it when you come right down to it. But from the standpoint of simplicity, it made more sense.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=144.0,220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Jack, let me ask you the name Smith, was that ever shortened?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=220.0,226.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=226.0,227.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: That was the original name.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=227.0,228.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: Jacob G. Smith. A school is named after him.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=228.0,236.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Now, tell me about your mother's family, the Kayton family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=236.0,244.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: You have to remember, when they were young, I wasn't here . . . 95 sounds long, but it doesn't make it any shorter or longer if you weren't here. But the Kayton family . . . consisted of three girls and two young men. That would be Herbert Kayton and Gustavus Kayton, he never married, and the three daughters were my mother, Bert Kayton, and Carrie Kayton and Ruth Kayton. Ruth Kayton became Mrs. Jacob G. Smith. Carrie Kayton became Carrie Weichselbaum, and Bert became [Mrs.] David Rosenheim. There's an amusing story that comes to mind. My dad was in a business that occasionally he would bring someone home to meet the family. One day he came home with a gentleman and introduced him to his wife, Mrs. Rosenheim, and then he introduced him to the three boys, Allan Kayton, Robert Kayton, and John Kayton. The guest looked perturbed to say at least and couldn't understand it. My dad said, \"They're my wife's children by her first husband.\" He said, \"Oh, I understand.\" Dad waited like Jack Benny would have waited, and then he said, \"I'm the first husband.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=244.0,392.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Which made it even more confusing for him.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=392.0,394.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: Which made it more confusing. Of course, he explained it by that time. But my dad never told a dirty story in his life. If he missed a shot on the golf course. He'd say, \"Oh, sure.\" Through his entire life I never heard him use a four letter word, even to explain a story.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=394.0,424.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Jack, what kind of business was the Kayton family in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=424.0,432.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: To my knowledge, personal knowledge, I used to go out and go down to see them some time. On Wheaton Street, there was a brick, not store, building. I can't tell you. I was only under 11. I can't tell you what went on there except that it was meat control, would you say. They sold meat, and I guess the carcasses of the animals that were cut up. They'd sell the meat. That was the only business I knew my grandfather and uncle to be in.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=432.0,492.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Was that by the name of Kayton Brothers?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=492.0,497.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: Yes. Lewis Kayton, grandfather. Gustavus Kayton was the uncle.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=497.0,511.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: They were a prominent family in Savannah. Now after the grandfather, how did that family business line continue?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=511.0,525.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: It didn't continue. It did not continue. I don't remember whether it was because of conditions or whether that particular business was no longer required. I imagine there was a problem trying to keep things cold, frozen, which might have been a factor. I think grandfather, if I remember correctly, I know he died on my brother's 21st birthday. That would be on the August 26, 1921. If that's when he died, I imagine Uncle Gustavus didn't continue the business, if they were still in it at that point. I really don't remember.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=525.0,581.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Do you have a recollection of how they came to Savannah?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=581.0,585.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: None whatever.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=585.0,593.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Okay . . . The only home that I know that's recognizable is the home on Drayton Street across from the park. Is that the only Kayton home you know of?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=593.0,604.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: Before they lived there, they were born in the third house on Oglethorpe [Avenue] east of Drayton. Right across from the cemetery, which is the cemetery . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=604.0,624.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: . . . Colonial Cemetery.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=624.0,625.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: Colonial Cemetery. Thank you. The Colonial Cemetery. Can you stop this for a minute? 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They used to play ball or throw a ball to each other in the cemetery. There's nobody there that was going to interfere. At least not to my knowledge.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=639.0,683.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Did you know your neighbors, the Gordons, the Juliette Gordon family?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=683.0,688.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: I know they lived there, but I didn't know them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=688.0,693.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Now, you were telling me about the house on Kayton. I'm sorry on Drayton Street.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=693.0,703.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: I don't know much about it, except . . . my mother, her family lived there, and my mother in particular enjoyed it. There was a ballroom where they had dances. Probably about the size of this room, as far as depth is concerned, maybe not quite as wide as this. I just don't remember too well. I do know that when my mother passed away, she died in New York, and we brought her down here. My son, Jim was at the time in the Army on his way to Vietnam, but he came over, met me in Atlanta [Georgia] and we came over here. He expressed a desire to see the inside of the house. I said, \"Let's see if we can get in.\" We went to the entrance and when we went inside, we were asked what we wanted, and I explained that it was my grandfather's house and that we just wanted to look at it. He said, \"Go right ahead. You can go upstairs if you want. If you see somebody move. Don't get excited.\" Anyhow . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=703.0,797.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Let's say for the record that the house presently has been owned by Fox \u0026 Weeks Funeral Home for many years but was just recently purchased by someone who's going to renovate it for maybe a hotel or an inn.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=797.0,818.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: As far as I know, it's supposed to be for a very fine hotel and restaurant. I don't know anything about people who bought it, what the plans are, the timing, or anything else.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=818.0,834.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Do you remember anything from that house that is now changed?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=834.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: Yes, there was a stall in the back for the horses, which has been converted into a garage for cars. The ballroom was also changed to some extent. That reminds me of when they were living there, my grandmother lived on the second floor as far as the bedrooms was concerned. One day she was getting dressed and suddenly her maid said to her, \"Mrs. Kayton, those men who are standing across the street [are] looking at you.\" My grandmother walked over to the window and took a look, turned around and said, \"Let them have a little fun.\" That's the story as far as she's concerned. She also played the piano, and when my mother wasn't available, she would play.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=840.0,914.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Do you remember what type of musicians they had on occasions when they had balls or parties there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=914.0,925.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: I have no idea. I don't know whether my mother played or whether they had people come in.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=925.0,935.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Do you remember who the neighbors would have been or what was where the existing Fox \u0026 Weeks Mortuary is today?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=935.0,948.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: No. That was all change somewhat. I have no idea what . . . They built an addition, where the side of the house where the ballroom was. That was made for parking, I think. I know that the park [is] on that side. But what been built for . . . 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For example, they lived on the corner of Park Avenue and Lincoln and the colored folks that worked for the white people would be walking home in the evening and would pass the house. She noticed how tired they all were. She had a seat built around . . . a stump of a tree, so that they could sit down and rest. It made her happy to know that she was responsible for it. But that's just an idea, they did so many things for people, poor people. They became known for the good work they [did].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=988.0,1071.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: What about Jacob G. Smith?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1071.0,1073.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: Jacob G. Smith, his father, I believe. I think the name . . . Grass, just like the green grass that was part of the name. Jacob G. Smith was Jacob Grass Smith. Of course, I didn't know it when I was a youngster there, I learned that much later. But that was his grandfather or father [who] established the Columbia Drug Company, and they furnished . . . all the drug stores in the area. They have the same situation today, but it's just big institutions that run them now, not individuals.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1073.0,1135.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Where was the Columbia Drug located?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1135.0,1138.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: On Bay Street, Bay and Lincoln. Bay Street was the east west and still is the east west street. Lincoln starts at Bay Street and goes south all the way down.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1138.0,1163.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Was he in business with anyone else?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1163.0,1165.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: To the best of my knowledge, he . . . took over after his father passed away, I guess.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1165.0,1181.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Now, what about the golf club days?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1181.0,1185.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: What about them?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1185.0,1187.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: How do you . . . [tape stops and resumes] Jack, I think when you were about 11 and a half, you moved to New York with your family. Want to pick up on that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1187.0,1203.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: There wasn't very much to pick up on there. Dad was investigating moving to New York. He ended up purchasing a textile mill that manufactured leggings that the soldiers wore. There were other things that they manufactured too, but I knew very little about it. It was up in the Bronx [New York], and I rarely went up there. But I don't remember how long, I think that terminated production when the war was over, which was not much later after he purchased it. Whatever he made in place of those I just don't know. I never asked him. I didn't have business interests at the time, at that age. I went to school at the public schools in New York for several years, and then I was sent to Storm King School, which was at the time Stone's School. But the name was changed to Storm King because it was on Storm King Mountain.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1203.0,1304.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Wasn't that unusual for you at that time in history, for a young man to go to boarding school and also a man of Jewish background?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1304.0,1321.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: I can't tell you. I would not think for one moment that it was unusual. From a religious standpoint, it may have been unusual.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1321.0,1338.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Did you . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1338.0,1339.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: . . . It did not bother me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1339.0,1341.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Did you experience anything unusual, any antisemitism at school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1341.0,1347.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: There was some amongst the players, you might say. The first year I was there they were some large, I mean tall and broad young men in the seniors. I was not in the seniors; I was in the first grade or whatever they call it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1347.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Freshmen.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1380.0,1382.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: At any rate. I liked it there. It was fun. It was out in the open. It was interesting. I had a few friends that were not necessarily Jewish. I got along pretty much with everybody. There are always two or three who want to create problems. I don't care what religion you're talking about. It just happens that way, I guess. But anyway, I stayed there three years. As far as I know, there are no others in the class of 1926. The last two I knew about I'm sure have passed on.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1382.0,1441.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: When you were in New York or especially at boarding school, do you remember if anyone knew of Savannah from the standpoint . . . 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I was downtown and I saw him, and I started running after the car to get a ride home, but I couldn't catch it. After two or three squares, I just walked home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1489.0,1522.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: That's something to know that . . . either the car was very fast, or you were a slow runner.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1522.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: I think you have a very good point.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1530.0,1534.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Did you take a car to college, to boarding school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1534.0,1537.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: You weren't allowed. You’re dealing now in 1924, 1925, 1926.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1537.0,1545.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Now, it's unusual, too, that your sisters attended Wellesley and Smith. That's quite impressive in those days.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1545.0,1553.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: Yes. These were not my sisters. These were Herbert Kayton and Tess Rosenheim, his wife, their children, two daughters. Ruth died of cancer, as well as her husband. That was, now I have to guess. I know it was June or July. I think it was June, April, and May, in there she died. They had one son, John. 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I'm just guessing, I don't know his private . . . 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You know this is an interesting thing that we're going to get into Rosenheim now. At least for the moment. Grandfather Rosenheim, have you ever seen a picture of him?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1665.0,1681.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: No, I haven't.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1681.0,1682.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: Remind me, I'll show you. Oh, I haven't got it here . . . Kay Cole has my things so she's redoing. If you are there sometime, ask her to show you the picture. It's in one of the books. He has whiskers on both sides, white whiskers. We thought this was wonderful. Anyhow . . . How did I get to Rosenheim?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1682.0,1726.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: I wanted to ask you about the Harmonie Club.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1726.0,1729.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: Oh right, I remember now. As far as the Harmonie Club is concerned, I know very little about it. I was not old enough to be a member here. By the time I was, I don't think it existed anymore. I don't know when the termination date took place, how long ago it was. Byck might know this. He was more active, I think.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1729.0,1760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: You started to tell me about Gustav, who was involved with . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1760.0,1764.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: Gus was my uncle. He had charge of providing all the foods and things. I don't even know if they had a restaurant there. I just don't remember. 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At least that's the only place, as far as the activity of the time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1793.0,1807.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Do you know of any other social events that you may have heard your parents going to?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1807.0,1815.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: No, I wouldn't be informed on that. I cannot imagine . . . I know that my parents, this is where I started to swing into Rosenheim, and the reason for it. Grandfather Rosenheim was the Secretary of Temple Emanuel, not Emanuel.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1815.0,1844.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Mickve Israel.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1844.0,1847.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: Mickve Israel. He was [the] secretary for 25 years, followed by the next 25 as president. For the next 25 . . . [tape stops and resumes]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1847.0,1874.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: [Side] two testing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=1874.0,1878.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: The third 25 years he was president. What's the word? I can't think of the word. [tape stops and resumes] The third 25 years he was president emeritus. He had quite an active role in the Temple. I think that this was one of the reasons why, and it's just a guess on my part, but I think it's one of the reasons why my father did not follow through with the same interest in the Temple. The result was, as far as I know, we were members of the Temple, but we rarely went in. As of today, for example, I'm a member, but I'm never down there. I don't follow any of the thinking of most of the people. 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I'm sure that I did not consider Judaism as a factor as to whether I liked somebody or didn't like them. That I've carried through myself in my life, in my business, and it's just a normal thing. 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I'm going to switch back my thinking to Kaytons for a second because my interest in trying to put some of this work together before I got to Kay Cole was simply the fact that I knew that my great grandfather was Henry Kayton, and he is the one who came over, not on the Mayflower perhaps, but he came over from Germany and he settled in Baltimore [Maryland]. My wife, Peggy Kayton and I, on one of our trips north, stopped in Baltimore and found the house that they had lived in. It was a regular home like any other. What kind of homes do you call these stone, three stories?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2033.0,2117.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Brownstone, maybe. Brownstone.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2117.0,2120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: Brownstone type. It was a brownstone type home. He married, now I'm working by memory, and I can't be precise. But he married and had four children, one of who . . . was my grandfather. His wife died very early in life, and he remarried and has seven children by his second wife. I would guess that must have killed her. At any rate, they were married 50 years with his second wife, and she died about a year before he died in 1901. We have the newspaper clippings and so forth. But I just wanted to mention that two wives and the number of people who came from. Okay, now you want to get back to Rosenheim.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2120.0,2214.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Do you remember when the Rosenheim's came here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2214.0,2221.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: No, but I believe they settled in Richmond [Virginia], I'm pretty certain. How they came to Savannah, I don't know. But I'm pretty sure Grandfather Rosenheim started life in Richmond or came to Richmond.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2221.0,2248.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: What type of business did he do here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2248.0,2253.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: He owned a . . . I can't think. 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He was in the . . . shoe business.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2266.0,2270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: In the shoe business.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2270.0,2271.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Now explain more.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2271.0,2274.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: Grandfather Rosenheim was in the shoe business. My father and his brother Herman and another brother, Albert, all worked in the shoe business. Dad used to go to Boston [Massachusetts] to buy shoes, arrange for them to be sent to him in Savannah . . . Not factory but the thing you stock them in.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2274.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: The warehouse.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2310.0,2311.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: Thank you . . . you're wonderful, I tell you. The warehouse was on Bay Street, and even to this day, Peggy and I noticed that if you look up where that building was, you can see the printing of the name. It's not all there, but you can see that's where the Rosenheim warehouse was.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2311.0,2335.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Do you remember where on Bay Street?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2335.0,2338.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: On Bay Street.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2338.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2340.0,2341.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: I wouldn't know what street it's at.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2341.0,2342.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2342.0,2344.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: I could take you to it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2344.0,2346.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: How long did . . . they stay in business? Do you remember?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2346.0,2350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: I guess they must have gone out of business about the same time we went to New York, because Dad was the dominant brother that took charge of things for Grandfather. Sorry, but I've got something in my eye.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2350.0,2371.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Where did the Rosenheim . . . Where did you grow up?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2371.0,2376.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: In Savannah?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2376.0,2377.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: . . . Yes. Where was the Rosenheim home?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2377.0,2382.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: Grandfather built a home. I don't know whether Grandfather Kayton and Grandfather Rosenheim were in competition with each other or whether it just happened. But Grandfather built a home a little further out, approximately 31st Street or 33rd Street right in there. The house had been torn down many years ago. It was a beautiful home on a big city block and lawn up front. [They] took good care of everything. Beautiful staircase going up. Beautiful wood. If I lowered my voice, it was not out of reverence. But I guess the Rosenheim family . . . the . . . shoe business was gone. Dad came to New York and bought this firm that I mentioned before. But Herman married Rosalind Rich, which was the founder of Rich’s stores in Atlanta.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2382.0,2483.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Was she the daughter of the founder?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2483.0,2485.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: She was the daughter. She was Rosalind Rich. 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But from college on, he was all Atlanta because he was now the future president of the . . . M. Rich. I don't know if it was M. Rich and Company . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2517.0,2558.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Do you know if Rich was a changed name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2558.0,2568.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: I don't . . . Oh, it's such a shame you didn't catch me a couple of years ago, when I had things, and I knew where everything was before I moved.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2568.0,2581.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: I think you're doing wonderful, and I think it's incredible . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2581.0,2583.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: I could have walked right in there and picked up the book on the Rich's . . . and given you answers. I don't remember where I put it. I know I kept it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2583.0,2596.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: I just want this recorded that you're 95 years young and you've got a wonderful memory. 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He bought . . . I never realized that slippers and that slipper is still sellable in stores. I don't know who owns and manufactures it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2626.0,2648.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: You don't know the name; you don't remember the name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2648.0,2653.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: I could go look at the ones I'm wearing. It's a simple name. I just can't remember it. I put my foot over it every night, so I don't see it. Not on purpose, I mean. [tape stops and resumes] I was going to speak a little bit about Dick Rich, who was so important for the city of Atlanta. He was willing to try things. Particularly in the area of relations with the blacks. For example, colored people were not allowed in the stores and restaurants. He took hold of the problem, and as nearly as I remember, he talked to the owners of the stores and of restaurants, and he got them to see the light that it was intelligent to go ahead and try [to] break down this barrier. On a certain day, blacks were enlightened on it, and on a certain day, as it approached, everybody was attuned for it. The result was blacks were served in the restaurants that day anywhere in Atlanta. It just broke down the whole resistance.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2653.0,2773.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Can you think about what decade or the time frame you're talking about?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2773.0,2780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: I didn't catch the word.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2780.0,2781.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: About what time frame that would have been.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2781.0,2787.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: I had a magazine all about Dick Rich. I don't know if I still have it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2787.0,2794.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Do you think it was in the 1960's or earlier?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2794.0,2799.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: Probably 1960's might have been 1950's. I just don't remember. But it was worth mentioning because it was . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2799.0,2809.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: . . . Sure . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2809.0,2811.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: . . . Wonderful foresight.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2811.0,2815.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Can you think of anything you might want to add about the family tree connection with the Kaytons and the Rosenheims?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2815.0,2830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: Not off the top of my head. 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But all in all, the course is in much better condition than any new course. They've made it a little more difficult as well, which is good. We don't have any tournaments there other than local tournaments amongst the members, but nothing that you find on television would be at Savannah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2843.0,2886.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Tell me about that second hole.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2886.0,2891.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: . . . That's not the second hole anymore, it's another number, but the thing was the whole area was built up during the Civil War when the South thought the North was going to come in by ship. They . . . built these big dirt. I don't know what you call them, just built them, planted trees in them and so forth. For a long time, there were people who saved old bottles, and they’d come out of the golf course and dig in these places looking for bottles that the soldiers may have left there. Not that there were anything in the content, but just the glass bottle. I never found one myself. I was looking for golf balls. But Kayton Smith was a wonderful golfer. At birth, I believe he had a problem with his right arm. He couldn't straighten it all the way out. He'd bring it in but when he went out it would stop a certain way. He taught himself to dip that right shoulder and see he'd swing a golf club so that the arm went down far enough. He perfected it to such an extent; he won the club championship four or five times. He was a wonderful golfer, patient, lovely man. His brother, younger, was also a good golfer but not as good as Kayton. Billy Weichselbaum, who was Carrie Kayton's [husband]. He was a dentist. His son was an orthodontist. Most of the girls and young boys in Savannah went to William Weichselbaum Jr., who today is unfortunately suffering from a stroke and no longer practices of course, but still around.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=2891.0,3076.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Let's skip over a little time and find out about your life in New York, your business, your wife and family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=3076.0,3096.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: I went in the life insurance business, August 15, 1932, which was to my way of thinking an intelligent step after seeing what had happened to businesses in October of 1929. I can remember many of my days walking the streets of New York talking life insurance, and seeing the lines of people, men particularly at some locations in the business area where they were giving out food to those who were out of jobs. I just felt that the life insurance opportunity not to me as a salesman, but to the people who purchased insurance over a period of time would only enhance the value rather than liquidated it. It turned out to be a pretty good idea. But I was in business from 1932 until 1972. How many years is that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=3096.0,3214.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: I can't do that, I'm only a volunteer. [interviewer laughs] That's not my category. I'm here to ask your questions. Now . . . was this your company or you worked for a company?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=3214.0,3228.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: No. I worked for the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=3228.0,3234.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Then you also told me that you were in the hat business.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=3234.0,3239.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: That was back in 1920. I . . . joined the firm of . . . I say I joined the firm; I got a job. Wasn't trying to make it sound good, I just didn't realize how it sounded until I said it. I worked for Dobbs and Company, who were the outlet for Dobbs hats in New York and around the world. The factory that manufactured the Dobbs hats, and the Knapp felt hats, Crofut \u0026 Knapp Company, Norwalk, Connecticut. Some wonderful people there, John Cavanagh, the president. He'd come down to New York to meet somebody in the sales department. Whoever it was came in sometimes would compliment him on the tie he was wearing, so he would just quietly take his tie off, give it to the person. \"If you like the tie so much, wear it.\" [He'd] send me downstairs to the retail store to get him another tie. That was the kind of person he was. George Nelson was an assistant to Mr. Holmes, Bob Holmes. He was the president. Nelson was his assistant, and I worked for Nelson and everyone else. The salesmen would gather two or three times a year. They'd come in from wherever they lived in the country. We'd have salesmen from California, salesmen from Texas, wherever they worked. But like anything else, Mr. Holmes was elderly. He passed on, then there was a question [of] selecting someone who is going to be the next president, and they selected a salesman by the name of Eddie Eklund, who was in the California area. I realized that I had no opportunity of advancement under the new set up, and so I left Crofut \u0026 Knapp Company, this was after four years. Became a salesman, traveling salesman for a Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] firm by the name of . . . Katz. I think it was Jack Katz. He had a line of hats more reasonable then the Dobbs, but pretty good. I made two trips with him for a year up to Illinois. I got to know the company and got to know the family. I got to know the people that worked behind the factory. [tape stops and resumes]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=3239.0,3504.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: In closing or to sum up this family, I want you to explain the connection between a brother and a sister marrying a brother and a sister.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=3504.0,3517.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: You have mentioned exactly the way it worked out. You had originally thought that it was two brothers marrying two sisters, and that was not quite accurate. It was a brother and a sister marrying a brother and a sister. For example, Herbert Kayton married Tess Rosenheim. Now I have to remember who the other one was. The other one was David Rosenheim married Bert Kayton. Funny, I should have a problem on that one because those were my parents.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=3517.0,3578.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: With this saying that everything goes around comes around. You were born in Savannah. You moved away and you are now back in Savannah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=3578.0,3588.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: I'm back in Savannah. I have a son; Jim married a lovely girl. Lovely girl whose background [had] nothing to do with Judaism. Her background was Irish, and I forget the other. But she's just a great girl. She's had a wonderful marriage with Jim. They work together at the theater. She makes the popcorn, plenty of it. But they live up in New York state outside of the city now. They got fed up with the city. They come down here on weekends, sometimes a little longer. But we're in constant touch with each other on the telephone, if it's not in person.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=3588.0,3681.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: I think it's remarkable. I've enjoyed talking with you so much, and I think . . . you're absolutely remarkable. Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=3681.0,3689.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: I don't know think I am.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=3689.0,3691.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: Is there anything else you might like to add before the tape is over?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=3691.0,3711.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/transcript/74034/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KAYTON: The only other thing, Wellesley, Smith. What's the one in Poughkeepsie [New York], girls college in Poughkeepsie. I've been to, it's not Smith.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=3711.0,3746.77333"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/annotation_set/1706","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/annotation_set/1706/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSavannah Square is a full-service retirement community that offers independent living, assisted living, and skilled nursing care in Savannah, Georgia. Savannah Square was designed with an active senior lifestyle in mind and provides a variety of distinctive amenities on its 17 acres. The community opened in stages with independent cottages apartment homes, health center services, and assisted living services. The community continues to grow over the years, and now is located three miles from St. Joseph Candler Hospital and five miles from Memorial Hospital.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=17.0,48.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/annotation_set/1706/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSavannah is the oldest city in the state of Georgia. It is a coastal city, separated from Charleston, South Carolina by the Savannah River. The city and the colony of Georgia was founded in 1733 when General James Oglethorpe and settlers arrived. During the Revolutionary War the city was the southernmost commercial port and during the Civil War it was the sixth most populous city in the Confederacy. City officials negotiated a peaceful surrender of the city in 1864, saving the city from destruction by General Sherman’s army. The city is known for its historic district with its 22 parklike squares, which was based on a design known as the Oglethorpe Plan.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=106.0,112.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/annotation_set/1706/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eJacob G. Smith (1876-1946) was born in Bainbridge, Georgia and moved to Savannah, Georgia as a young man. He was the son of Abraham and Flora Howard Smith. He and his father, Abe operated the Columbia Drug Company, which was incorporated in 1900. The company manufactured medicines and imported druggists’ sundries purchased from manufacturers aboard. He was responsible for helping to organize a school lunch program in Georgia during the early 1930’s, which was one of the first in the nation. He was married to Ruth Kayton, and they had two sons, Kayton Smith, Sr. and Dean Smith, Sr.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=228.0,236.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/annotation_set/1706/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eJacob G. Smith Elementary School in Savannah, Georgia, which is named for Jacob G. Smith, a Savannah wholesale druggist. Governor Herman Talmadge bestowed the honor on Smith in 1951. During the early 1930’s, Smith had been responsible for starting one of the nation’s first school lunch program to help feed school age children in Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=228.0,236.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/annotation_set/1706/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHerbert Kayton (1877-1969) was a Savannah, Georgia native and son of Lewis and Jennie Bernard Kayton. He operated the Carson Naval Stores Company. He served on the United Jewish Appeal and served as chair for the Savannah Housing Authority. He was married to Tess Rosenheim, and they had two daughters.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=244.0,392.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/annotation_set/1706/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eGustavus Kayton (1872-1939) was a Savannah, Georgia native and son of Lewis and Jennie Bernard Kayton. He worked with his father in the meat packing business, L. Kayton \u0026amp; Son.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=244.0,392.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/annotation_set/1706/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBert Kayton Rosenheim (1874-1967) was a Savannah, Georgia native and daughter of Lewis and Jennie Bernard Kayton. She married David Rosenheim in 1899. They had three sons Allan Kayton, Robert Kayton, and John Kayton. All her sons took her maiden name of Kayton when they were young adults. She, her husband, and sons moved to New York where her husband initially ran a textile business and then other businesses.  \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=244.0,392.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/annotation_set/1706/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCarrie Kayton Weichselbaum (1878-1943) was a Savannah, Georgia native and daughter of Lewis and Jennie Bernard Kayton. She was the Savannah High School salutatory in 1895 and played the violin. In 1904, she married William Weichselbaum, who worked as dentist. She and William had two children, Alice and William Jr. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=244.0,392.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/annotation_set/1706/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRuth Kayton Smith (1875-1936) was a Savannah, Georgia native and daughter of Lewis and Jennie Bernard Kayton. She was married to Jacob G. Smith who operated Columbia Drug Company. They had two sons, Kayton and Dean.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=244.0,392.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/annotation_set/1706/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Rosenheim (1873-1958) grew up in Savannah, Georgia and was the son of Joseph and Amelia Rosenheim. He married Bert Kayton in 1899. They had three sons Allan Kayton, Robert Kayton, and John Kayton. All the sons took Bert’s maiden name of Kayton when they were young adults. He worked with his father in the Joseph Rosenheim Shoe Company. About 1917, he moved his family to New York City, where owned a textile factory for a time and later worked in various other businesses including real estate and investor.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=244.0,392.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/annotation_set/1706/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAllan Kayton (1900-1986) is the oldest son of David and Bert Kayton Rosenheim. As a young adult, he and his two brothers changed his name from Rosenheim to Kayton to honor the Kayton side of the family. He served in the military for a short time during World War I.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=244.0,392.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/annotation_set/1706/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Kayton (1904-1986) is the middle son of David and Bert Kayton Rosenheim. As a young adult, he and his two brothers changed his name from Rosenheim to Kayton to honor the Kayton side of the family. Robert worked as a hat salesman and later owned an advertising display company. 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He was married to Jennie Bernard, and they had five children, Gustavus, Bert, Ruth, Hebert, and Carrie.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=497.0,511.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/annotation_set/1706/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Lewis Kayton house is located at 700 Drayton Street in Savannah, Georgia. The home was built for early Savannah pioneer, Lewis Kayton. It was designed by architects Alfred Eichberg and Hyman Witcover and is in the Romanesque Revival-style. It was built between 1888 and 1889. In 1953, it became the Fox \u0026amp; Weeks Funeral Home. 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The Great Crash is associated with October 24, 1929, called Black Thursday, the day of the largest sell-off of shares in U.S. history, and October 29, 1929, called Black Tuesday, when investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. The crash signaled the beginning of the Great Depression.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=3096.0,3214.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/annotation_set/1706/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eNorthwestern Mutual is an American financial services mutual organization based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was founded in 1857 as the Mutual Life Insurance Company of the State of Wisconsin but changed its name to Northwestern Mutual in 1865. In 1969, the company began offering disability insurance and later retirement annuities. In 1990, it began offering long-term care insurance. By 2001, the company was the leading individual life insurance company in the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=3228.0,3234.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/annotation_set/1706/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eDobbs and Company was a men’s hat making company. The ‘Dobbs’ brand of hats was created in 1908 by the Crofut \u0026amp; Knapp Co. It became the company’s best-selling product line from 1910 forward and the hats were sold in Dobbs Stores, which allowed the public to buy them directly from the company. In 1928, the company was moved under a holding company by company president John Cavanagh. The holding company was known as Cavanagh-Dobbs and included Crofut \u0026amp; Knapp and the Dobbs and Company. In 1932, Cavanagh-Dobbs merged with the Knox Hat Company to form the Hat Corporation of America which ended operations in 1970.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=3239.0,3504.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/annotation_set/1706/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCrofut \u0026amp; Knapp Co. began operations in 1858 as a result of a partnership between hatmakers James H. Knapp and Andrew J. Crofut. They specialized in ‘hard’ hats and is credited with producing the first derby style hat in America in 1860. The company was based in Norwalk, Connecticut. The company created the ‘Dobbs’ brand of hats in 1908. In 1928, the company was moved under a holding company by company president John Cavanagh. The holding company was known as Cavanagh-Dobbs and included Crofut \u0026amp; Knapp and the Dobbs and Company. In 1932, Cavanagh-Dobbs merged with the Knox Hat Company to form the Hat Corporation of America which ended operations in 1970.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=3239.0,3504.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/annotation_set/1706/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eNorwalk, Connecticut is a city in Western Connecticut, southern Fairfield County. It is located in both the New York metropolitan area and the Bridgeport metropolitan area. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=3239.0,3504.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/annotation_set/1706/annotation/242","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Cavanagh (1864-1957) was an American men’s hatter based in New York City. He began working in the hat industry at age 17 in Norwalk, Connecticut. In 1880, he began working for Crouft \u0026amp; Knapp and was the company’s vice-president in 1907 and president from 1923 to 1937. In 1928, he created Cavanagh-Dobbs Inc. which included his own hat label, Cavanagh Hats and in 1932, he founded the Hat Corporation of America, merging his brands with Knox \u0026amp; Dunlap. He also served as the Democrat mayor of South Norwalk, Connecticut from 1902-1903 and Norwalk, Connecticut from 1908-1909. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917#t=3239.0,3504.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/140542/file/259917/annotation_set/1706/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003ePhiladelphia is Pennsylvania's largest city. It has a deep connection to the founding of the United States because it is home to Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed. It is also home to the Liberty Bell and other American Revolutionary sites. 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