{geni:occupation} Baker
{geni:about_me} Nathan Samuel (Nesanel) (Sandor) Kohn-Zerkowitz was b. in Trencin, Hungary in 1783, and remained there his entire life. Upon his father's murder (prior to 1809), rights to his father's residence in Trencin City passed jointly to Nathan and his older brother Leopold. Within a few years, however, Leopold departed for Bittse, possibly after a possible falling out Nathan).

Nathan remained in the Trencin City residence. He was a baker by occupation, and operated his business in the center of Trencin City. According to family lore, "he owned his own house in Trencin" -- a status somewhat unusual for a Jew in that region.

He was alternately known as "Nathan Zerkowitz", "Alexander (Sandor) Zerkowitz", and as "Samuel Kohn". In Jewish census records for Trencin City, 1818, 1821, and 1828, he is consistently listed as "Samuel Kohn". However, his 1847death record refers to him as "Nathan Kohn"

Nathan died in Trencin on 12 October 1847, age 64 years.

Trencin City, Trencin Co., Hungary,1818:
household #52: KOHN, Samuel
-- with wife, one son, two daughters

Trencin City, Trencin Co., Hungary,1821:
Household #63: KOHN, Samuel
-- with wife, one son, three daughters

Trencin City, Trencin Co., Hungary, 1828:
household #97: KOHN, Samuel

Nathan Samuel's youngest grandson, Emil Zerk (1892-1988), wrote the following about him (in a letter to his son, Avinoam]: "Nathaniel was [your] great-grandfather. He owned a house and was in business. He was married twice. Firstwife had three children, two sons and a daughter. His second was Cecily Cohen. He had four children by her. Phillip we know, but Bernhard we did not know. He lived in Trencin, as did Julie who was married to a Spitzer. Then therewas Simon, your grandfather, who lived in Vienna near his brother Philip...."

Three years after Nesanel's death, his widow began using the surname Zerkowitz. When she died in 1885, her death record states that she was the widow of "Samuel Czerkovicz". Similarly, the death record of his daughter, Julianna Spitzer (1913), indicates that her father's name was "Samuel Zerkowitz".