Marie Hajjar Immigration Record

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

Immigration Service, on December 30, 1911. 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. certifying Marie Hajjar's (Hagjar) arrival in the United States on December 5, 1911. It lists her age as 17, her occupation as servant, her literacy as yes, and destination as Lawrence, Massachussetts, to join her brother. It also specifies that she traveled on the S.S. Chicago of the French line (Manifest no. 16-1).

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