Family Card - Person Sheet
NameSimon Zerkowitz (Kohn-Zerkowitz) 
Birth8 Mar 1838, Trenčín, Trenčiansky kraj, Slovakia
Death29 Oct 1900, Vienna, Austria
FatherNathan Samuel (Nesanel) (Sándor) Kohn-Zerkowitz (1783-1847)
MotherCecilia Kohn-Boschan (Kohn or Bosany) (1794-1885)
Spouses
Marriage23 Dec 1883, Vienna, Austria
Birth18 Sep 1867, Opatová, Trenčiansky kraj, Slovakia
Death1957, Springfield, Hampden County, MA, USA
Marriage23 Jun 1889, Bratislava, Bratislavský kraj, Slovakia
ChildrenFranziska (1890-1979)
Emil (Nathaniel-Moshe) (Nesanel-Moshe) (1892-1988)
Zerlina (Zerline) (1893-~1958)
Johanna (Hanna) (1896-1944)
Notes for Simon Zerkowitz (Kohn-Zerkowitz)
{geni:occupation} Owner of a wholesale export business, selling from Vienna to the Balkans
{geni:about_me} Simon Zerkowitz was a merchant. As a young man, he left Trencin City and joined his older brother, Philip, in Vienna. He later went to Budapest and then Bachau, where he worked, doing business in Turkey, Romania, and Serbia. After the death of his first wife, Simon lived for a period of time in Bratislava. He returned to Vienna following his second marriage and resided there until his death. He ran a wholesale business in Vienna, which exported goods to the Balkans. It had three big rooms for packing a showroom, and an office on the second floor of Griechengasse 7, Vienna.
In 1888, Simon was residing at 3, Obere Weingarberstrasse 4, in Vienna. When he died in 1900, Simon Zerkowitz is listed as "kaufmann" with an address of 2, Obere Donaustrasse 77, Vienna.
Vienna newspaper notice -- October 1900 (obituary)
Simon ZERKOWITZ, age 62, died 29 October 1900. Born in Trencsin, Ungarn, 8 March 1838. Services on 31 October 1900 at 10:30 a.m., burial in Central Cemetery... Survived by wife, Therese Zerkowitz geb. Smetana [married in Pressburg, 23 June 1889]; by four children, Franciska, Emil, Zerline, and Johana; by a brother, Filip Zerkowitz; by a sister, Julie Spitzer geb. Zerkowitz; by a sister-in-law, Bertha Zerkowitz; and by three brothers-in-law, Ignatz Smetana,Beni Smetana, and Sandor Smetana. Predeceased by his parents, Natan [Nathaniel / Alexander] Zerkowitz and Cacilie Zerkowitz geb. Kohn; by a brother, Bernat Zerkowitz; and by a brother-in-law, Samuel Spitzer.
{geni:about_me} Simon Zerkowitz was a merchant. As a young man, he left Trencin City and joined his older brother, Philip, in Vienna. He later went to Budapest and then Bachau, where he worked, doing business in Turkey, Romania, and Serbia. After the death of his first wife, Simon lived for a period of time in Bratislava. He returned to Vienna following his second marriage and resided there until his death. He ran a wholesale business in Vienna, which exported goods to the Balkans. It had three big rooms for packing a showroom, and an office on the second floor of Griechengasse 7, Vienna.
In 1888, Simon was residing at 3, Obere Weingarberstrasse 4, in Vienna. When he died in 1900, Simon Zerkowitz is listed as "kaufmann" with an address of 2, Obere Donaustrasse 77, Vienna.
Vienna newspaper notice -- October 1900 (obituary)
Simon ZERKOWITZ, age 62, died 29 October 1900. Born in Trencsin, Ungarn, 8 March 1838. Services on 31 October 1900 at 10:30 a.m., burial in Central Cemetery... Survived by wife, Therese Zerkowitz geb. Smetana [married in Pressburg, 23 June 1889]; by four children, Franciska, Emil, Zerline, and Johana; by a brother, Filip Zerkowitz; by a sister, Julie Spitzer geb. Zerkowitz; by a sister-in-law, Bertha Zerkowitz; and by three brothers-in-law, Ignatz Smetana,Beni Smetana, and Sandor Smetana. Predeceased by his parents, Natan [Nathaniel / Alexander] Zerkowitz and Cacilie Zerkowitz geb. Kohn; by a brother, Bernat Zerkowitz; and by a brother-in-law, Samuel Spitzer.