Wadia Habib Immigration Record

An immigration record issued by the United States Department of Commerce and Labor, Immigration Service on January 6, 1913. 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 Wadia Habib arrived in the United States December 3, 1912. It provides her age, 16, occupation, servant, and destination, Lawrence, Massachusetts, to join her brother in law. It indicates that she traveled on the S.S. Kaiser Franz Josef of the Austro-American line (Manifest no. 40-5).

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Byron Hall

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