Carl David Rosenbaum was born 1892 in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, NC, the eldest of 4 known surviving children (1 boy/3 girls) born to Jewish-German immigrant, Julius Rosenbaum, and his wife Addie L. Jenkins.
His father, born in Germany-Austria, immigrated to the U.S. in 1885. It is not known what port he entered, or whether he immigrated alone or with family members. It is known he was in Tarboro ca. 1888-1891, when he met and married Addie Jenkins, a Christian woman from Pitt County, NC, who converted to Judiasm when she married. Julius prospered as a merchant in Tarboro and was part of the small community of Jews who settled there after the Civil War. In 1908, his father built a Victorian Home on Park Avenue, overlooking the commons, which still exists today.
Raised in the family home his father built on Park Avenue, Carl atteded UNC (1913-1915), but left the University to serve in the Military during World War I where he was a Sergeant in a base hospital. He returned to Tarboro after the war and later clerked for Rosenbloom-Levy Company, a general mercantile store in Tarboro.
In 1921, at age 29, he met and married a local Christian girl, 20-year old Myrtle Keel, of Pitt County, NC. The couple would have two children:
* Myrtle "Winifred" Rosenbaum PLUNKETT (1921-2013)
* Carl David Rosenbaum, Jr. (1927-2006)
In 1930, the couple built a modest cottage a few blocks east of his parent's house, on Park Avenue. The house still stands today (ca. 2008).
Carl Rosenbaum died in 1946 at age 54. His wife of 24 years never remarried, and passed in 1995 at age 94.
His father, born in Germany-Austria, immigrated to the U.S. in 1885. It is not known what port he entered, or whether he immigrated alone or with family members. It is known he was in Tarboro ca. 1888-1891, when he met and married Addie Jenkins, a Christian woman from Pitt County, NC, who converted to Judiasm when she married. Julius prospered as a merchant in Tarboro and was part of the small community of Jews who settled there after the Civil War. In 1908, his father built a Victorian Home on Park Avenue, overlooking the commons, which still exists today.
Raised in the family home his father built on Park Avenue, Carl atteded UNC (1913-1915), but left the University to serve in the Military during World War I where he was a Sergeant in a base hospital. He returned to Tarboro after the war and later clerked for Rosenbloom-Levy Company, a general mercantile store in Tarboro.
In 1921, at age 29, he met and married a local Christian girl, 20-year old Myrtle Keel, of Pitt County, NC. The couple would have two children:
* Myrtle "Winifred" Rosenbaum PLUNKETT (1921-2013)
* Carl David Rosenbaum, Jr. (1927-2006)
In 1930, the couple built a modest cottage a few blocks east of his parent's house, on Park Avenue. The house still stands today (ca. 2008).
Carl Rosenbaum died in 1946 at age 54. His wife of 24 years never remarried, and passed in 1995 at age 94.
Carl David Rosenbaum was born 1892 in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, NC, the eldest of 4 known surviving children (1 boy/3 girls) born to Jewish-German immigrant, Julius Rosenbaum, and his wife Addie L. Jenkins.
His father, born in Germany-Austria, immigrated to the U.S. in 1885. It is not known what port he entered, or whether he immigrated alone or with family members. It is known he was in Tarboro ca. 1888-1891, when he met and married Addie Jenkins, a Christian woman from Pitt County, NC, who converted to Judiasm when she married. Julius prospered as a merchant in Tarboro and was part of the small community of Jews who settled there after the Civil War. In 1908, his father built a Victorian Home on Park Avenue, overlooking the commons, which still exists today.
Raised in the family home his father built on Park Avenue, Carl atteded UNC (1913-1915), but left the University to serve in the Military during World War I where he was a Sergeant in a base hospital. He returned to Tarboro after the war and later clerked for Rosenbloom-Levy Company, a general mercantile store in Tarboro.
In 1921, at age 29, he met and married a local Christian girl, 20-year old Myrtle Keel, of Pitt County, NC. The couple would have two children:
* Myrtle "Winifred" Rosenbaum PLUNKETT (1921-2013)
* Carl David Rosenbaum, Jr. (1927-2006)
In 1930, the couple built a modest cottage a few blocks east of his parent's house, on Park Avenue. The house still stands today (ca. 2008).
Carl Rosenbaum died in 1946 at age 54. His wife of 24 years never remarried, and passed in 1995 at age 94.
His father, born in Germany-Austria, immigrated to the U.S. in 1885. It is not known what port he entered, or whether he immigrated alone or with family members. It is known he was in Tarboro ca. 1888-1891, when he met and married Addie Jenkins, a Christian woman from Pitt County, NC, who converted to Judiasm when she married. Julius prospered as a merchant in Tarboro and was part of the small community of Jews who settled there after the Civil War. In 1908, his father built a Victorian Home on Park Avenue, overlooking the commons, which still exists today.
Raised in the family home his father built on Park Avenue, Carl atteded UNC (1913-1915), but left the University to serve in the Military during World War I where he was a Sergeant in a base hospital. He returned to Tarboro after the war and later clerked for Rosenbloom-Levy Company, a general mercantile store in Tarboro.
In 1921, at age 29, he met and married a local Christian girl, 20-year old Myrtle Keel, of Pitt County, NC. The couple would have two children:
* Myrtle "Winifred" Rosenbaum PLUNKETT (1921-2013)
* Carl David Rosenbaum, Jr. (1927-2006)
In 1930, the couple built a modest cottage a few blocks east of his parent's house, on Park Avenue. The house still stands today (ca. 2008).
Carl Rosenbaum died in 1946 at age 54. His wife of 24 years never remarried, and passed in 1995 at age 94.
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