Dr. J.W. Amey appeared in a 1918 "great men" directory.   Ironically, the first time the newspapers took note of Jesse Willis Amey...

  “Famous for his artistic eye,” the early-twentieth century theater agent Joseph Mandelkern liked to boast that he discovered the ethereal ...

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  Tolstoy and Gorky, 1900 On July 4, 1905, the Polish-born impresario and real estate man Joseph Mandelkern landed on page two of the New Yo...

  In 1886, Joseph Mandelkern left his desk job in Bialystok City Hall and immigrated to America. His plans were far grander than many an Eas...

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  In New York City toward the end of the nineteenth century, Mary Rankin Cranston lodged in a boarding house on West 56 th Street and worke...