Toulfi Goenem Immigration Record

An immigration record, issued by the United States Department of Commerce and Labor

Immigration Service, on December 14, 1912. It was was produced at Ellis Island, sent to Bernard M. Sheridan, Superintendent of schools in Lawrence, MA, and signed by Acting Commissioner Byron Hall. It certifies that Toulfi Goenem arrived in the United States on December 3, 1912. It provides his age, 16, occupation, "pupil," and destination, New York, to join relatives. It also indicates that he traveled on the S.S. Kaiser Franz Josef I on the Austro-American line (Manifest no. 37-26).

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Ellis Island, New York