{geni:about_me} Julie Zerkowitz was named in honor of her father's great-grandmother, Judith Pick (c1742-bef 1809) of Trencin. She married Moritz Exl in 1871 and was the mother of 14 children. She first came to the U.S. in 1891,but returned to Hungary within a year or two. On 17 December 1896, Julie (Zerkowitz) Exl and her five youngest surviving children all re-entered the United States, joining her husband Moritz in Cleveland, Ohio:

Ship "Friesland", arriving in New York Harbor, 17 December 1896: EXL, Julie, age 43, wife, from Hungary, en route to Cleveland, Ohio daughter, Erna, age 17, daughter, Sali, age 14 son, Alexander, age 13 [son], Henne, age 10 daughter, Roska, age 6