Herman
Roth
Born in Hungary
Ancestors 
Son of Ignatz Roth
and Sali Roth
Brother of
Hannah Cecilia (Roth) Schlesinger, Bertlan Roth, Ettelka (Roth) Radin, Samuel Roth, Julia Roslyn (Roth) Schlesinger and Caroline Harriet (Roth) Howard
Husband of
Phoebe (Schweitzer) Roth
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at age 72
in New York, New York, United States.
Profile last modified
| Created 21 Jul 2019
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Biography
Herman Roth was born in Szanto, (now Abaujszanto) Hungary, in 1874 son of Ignatz Roth and Sallie Roth, and was eight years old when he arrived in New York with his parents. He grew up in Manhattan and was a law student in 1897 when he vouched for and witnessed the naturalization petition of his uncle, Aaron Roth, and was an attorney with an office in Manhattan, when he vouched for his wife's uncle, Abraham Sonnenstrahl, who applied for passport in 1906. Herman and his family moved across the river to New Jersey and lived at Jersey City from about 1916 to 1930, when they purchased a home on 85th Street in a new development in Jackson Heights, Queens. Herman was a practicing attorney with an office in Manhattan up until shortly before his untimely death when struck by a car in 1946. He was described as a kind and gentle man by his children, who said that unlike many lawyers who became quite wealthy, to the disappointment of his wife's family, he never became wealthy because he was always willing to help those who were unable to pay for his services.
Sources
- Hamburg Passenger lists, 1850-1934, 1880-1889, Band 046, folio 2224, ship "Rugia," departed November 22, 1882. Digital image at Ancestry.com.
- United States Naturalization Records Index, 1791-1992. Ancestry.com.
- United States Census, 1900, New York, Manhattan, 111th St, p. 34A, family #233.
- New York State Census, 1905, New York County, Manhattan, 24th Dist. Block C, p. 41, family #106.
- New Jersey State Census, 1915, Hudson County, Jersey City, Ward 9, Webster Ave, p. 5, family #59 at Ancestry.com.
- United States Census, 1920, New Jersey, Hudson County, Jersey City, Ward 11 p. 8B, family #496.
- Jersey City, New Jersey, City Directory, 1922, "Roth, Herman, lawyer (wife Phoebe), 153 Hancock." p. 990. Ditto, 1925, p. 870.
- New York Extracted Death Index, 1862-1948, FamilySearch.org.
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