Layla Akel Immigration Record

This immigration record was produced at Ellis Island on Jamuary 11, 1912, sent to Bernard M. Sheridan, Superintendent of Schools in Lawrence, MA, and signed by Acting Commissioner Byron Hall. It confirms Layla Akel's arrival in the United States on December 21, 1910. It provides further information about her, including age, 16, and destination, Lawrence, Massachusetts, to join her mother. It also indicates that she was able to read and write and listed her occupation as a servant. The document also names the ship she arrived on, the S.S. Philadelphia of the American Line, and its manifest No. 2-23.

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