A few Drachman Family Photos  

The book by Roy Drachman, Just Memories, is on-line.

Click here to go to the site that has a link to his book.

 

Do you have any corrections to send me? Do you have a Drachman photograph you are willing to share with your relatives? If you send me the photograph in a sturdy package, I will handle it carefully, scan it in, add it to this page, and return the photograph to you. Also you can send me the photograph as a gif or jpeg attached file.  

 

Rebecca Hirsh Drachman and Harris Drachman (Photograph of a painting)

Harris: born ca 1804, Piotrkov, Poland, died Jan 14, 1869 in Europe, we believe.

Rebecca: born 1804 (based on death C.) in Piotrkov (best guess), died Oct 11, 1866 at No. 3 Bayard St, Brooklyn, NY

 

 

 

M/F

Children

Born

Died

Married

M

Philip (bore 10 children)

7/4/1833 Piotrkov

11/9/1889 Tucson

Rosa Katzenstein, 4/21/1868 in NY, NY

M

Samuel H. (bore 4 children)

4/7/1837 Piotrkov

12/26/1911 Tucson

Jenny Migel 11/18/1875 San Bernadino

F

Deborah (bore 1 know child)

ca 1838 Piotrkov

Stayed in Poland, date unknown

Mr. Lewitt says Deborah married Nahum Levicki

F

Augusta (bore 5 children)

5/25/1839 Pirtrkov. Another record says 5/25/1828

9/12/1908 San Bernadino

Hyman Goldberg Los Angeles between 1852-1856

F

Rachel (bore 7 children)

3/8/1842 Piotrkov

6/18/1910 Philadelphia

Michael Brylawski

 

Children of Philip Drachman and Rosa Katzenstein

Harry Arizona

Mose

Emanuel

Rebecca

Myra

Albert P

Lillian

Minnie

Esther

Phyllis

Children of Samuel Drachman and Jennie Migel

Herbert

Sol

Lucille

Myrtle

Children of Deborah Drachman and Reuben Lewitt

Reuben Lewitt

Children of Augusta Drachman and Hyman Goldberg

 

Amelia

Aaron

David

Rebecca

Harris Moses

Children of Rachel Drachman and Michael Brylawski

Rebecca

Solomon

Edward

Harry

Sarah

Jeanette

Harry

Deborah or Della

Emma

Beulah

 

Phillip Drachman and Rosa Katzenstein Drachman

Phillip: born July 4, 1833 Piotrkov, died Nov 9, 1889 Tucson, Arizona

Rosa: born Jan 6, 1848, Baltimore, Maryland, died July 25, 1918, Tucson. Her parents were Moses Katzenstein, b. Ca 1802, Kassel, Germany, d. May 30, 1864 and Mina Katzenstein b. ca. 1802, Hanover, Germany.

 

 

M/F

Children

Born

Died

Married

M

Harry Arizona (bore 5 children)

2/3/1869 Tucson

12/26/1951 Tucson

Florence Ogden 6/3/1903 Tucson

M

Mose (bore 3 children)

11/11/1870 San Francisco

10/3/1935 Tucson

Ethel Edmunds Tucson 1896

M

Emanuel (bore 3 children)

8/1/1872 Tucson

12/28/1933 Tucson

Millie Royers 11/4/1905 Tucson

F

Rebecca

10/6/1874 Tucson

10/22/1960 NY

Sol Breslauer NY

F

Myra

6/28/1877 Tucson

5/6/1934 Longbeach

 

M

Albert P.

5/31/1879 Tucson

8/23/1960

Millie Royers (Emanuel's widow)Tucson 1940

F

Lillian

7/24/1882 Tucson

9/26/1968 Hollywood

 

F

Minnie

4/7/1884 Tucson

4/26/1916 Globe

1st: Sid Harris

2nd :Phil Robertson El Paso

F

Esther

5/1/1886 Tucson

2/27/1952 Los Angeles

Lot Holmes

F

Phyllis

11/2/1888 Tucson

4/17/1976 Hollywood

1st: Louis Tappe

2nd: A.P. Bell

Rosa Drachman with her ten children at Kensington Court in Santa Monica, California, in 1915.

Left to right standing: Harry, Becky, Emanuel, Lillian, Mose, Esther, Minnie, and Albert

Seated left to right: Myra, Rosa, Phyllis.

This photo, donated by Anne Drachman Tartaul, is at the Special Collections at the University of Arizona . This photo also appears at the website at the University of Arizona with the link at the top of the page. Shan Sutton, Archivist for the University of Arizona Library, kindly sent the image.

 

Albert, Emanuel, Mose, and Harry Drachman.

 

 

From left to right:

Rebecca (Becky married Sol Breslauer and lived in NY) 1874-1960. No issue.

Esther Drachman (She married Lot Holmes). Moved to Los Angeles and worked for the Randolf railroad lines. 1866-1950.

Lillian Drachman (never married). She worked for a large clothing store in Los Angeles for many years. 1882-1968.

Phyllis Bell ,twice married, first husband died in WW1, but she divorced him before he went overseas. She loved baseball as did all the Drachmans. She was one of ten and they called her "baby" for one year, not bothering to give her a name. 1888-1976.

Myra Drachman (never married). Taught at Bryant grade school in Long Beach for thirty years. Loved by her students. Graduated from UCLA in 1903 when it was a "Normal" school. 1877-1934.

Minnie Robertson. Married twice. Divorced as young woman and remarried to a mining engineer. She was a "gadabout" and a socialite in the mining camps, living in both Mexico and Arizona. With friends went over a cliff on a narrow road near Inspiration mine near Globe one evening. Many hurt in the touring car but she was the only one to die (at age 32). 1884-1916.

 

 

 

 

Florence Emilie Ogden Drachman (married Harry Arizona Drachman June 3, 1903)

Born Tybo County, Nevada, Jan 21, 1880, died June 10, 1962 Tucson, Arizona. She was called Nanita by her grandchildren. She earned a master's degree at the University of Arizona in 1905. She completed work for a PhD but never turned in her thesis. At the time of her death her thesis was in the possession of the family.

 

 

 

Philip, Oliver, Cowan, Byron, Roy, Frank, Dick, Albert, Oscar, Allen


 

Florence and Harry Drachman Feb 1949, Tucson


Jennie Migel, wife of Sam Drachman. The photo was sent by Gloria Rosenfeld, her granddaughter.

 


 

Gathering of Drachmans in observance of Harry Arizona Drachman's 70th birthday, February 3, 1939. Left to Right:

Front Row: Anne, Craig, Miliana

Second Row: Frank Jr., Rosalie, Harry, Rosemary and James

Top Row: Oliver, Cowan, Albert H., Frank and Roy P. 

 

 

Harry Arizona Drachman's 80th Birthday, Tucson, February 3, 1949. Left to right:

Oliver Drachman, Richard Avery, Nelson C. Tompkins, Byron C. Drachman, H. Cowan Drachman, Harry Arizona Drachman, L. Oscar Drachman, Allen O. R. Drachman, Frank Drachman, Philip Drachman, Dick Drachman 

 

Click here to see some of Sam Drachman's Diary

 

If you are a descendant of Florence Drachman, click here to read about John Ogden the Pilgrim

Click here to see information about descendants of Allen Oscar Rice Drachman and Wilhelmena Faye Quick Drachman and ancestors of Faye

Click here to see some recent photographs of some descendants of Byron C. Drachman

Click here to see some recent photographs of descendants of Lawrence Oscar Drachman

Some photographs of descendants of (Florence) Rosalie Drachman and Richard Avery

Most of the reports below were created using a genealogy program to extract genealogy reports from the computer file created by Allen O. R. Drachman and extended by Byron Drachman :

Click here to see a report about some descendants of Harris and Rebecca Drachman 

 Click here to see a report about some ancestors of Florence Drachman

 Click here to see a report without notes but going further back for Florence Drachman

 Click here to see more of the report (generations 25-40)

 Click here to see generations 41-71

Click here to see a report about some ancestors of Harry Arizona Drachman

Click here for more on Mose and Oliver Drachman