Harold (Hebrew/Yiddish name Chaim Chaykel) was born in 1899 in Augustow, Poland (Russia), but he later changed his birthdate to 3 May 1903. He was the oldest of 4 children of Joseph Lipsky and Jessie Weinberg, and he attended Chader (Hebrew) School in Poland. He went to work at a young age, setting type for a printer, working as a stevedore, delivering fish for a fishmonger, and worked in a lumber mill. His father, Joseph, first left for the US in 1904, returning a few times before settling in Baltimore Maryland in 1912. Eight years later, in October 1920, Harold left his mother and younger siblings in Poland to escape the draft. He traveled first to Berlin, then Amsterdam where he boarded the ship Grampion to sail to Montreal, Canada. Father Joseph went to Canada to bring Harold back, and they visited Buffalo NY relatives before going to Baltimore where Joseph had a shoe shop. In December that same year, mother Jessie left Poland with Harold's siblings Blanche, Bessye and Irvin. Harold went to Ellis Island to meet them and bring them to Baltimore, reuniting the family for the first time in 8 years. While the family had spoken Polish, German, Russian and Yiddish, Harold attended night school to learn English and earn a high school diploma before he attended pharmacy school at night while working days at a print shop. Harold became a US citizen in 1926. The Lipsky family opened a drug store where the children worked along with their father. The family lived above the shop on Pennsylvania Ave. Brother Irvin also became a pharmacist and the family opened 2 more drug stores, one on Charles Street and one on Lexington and Pine. The Lipsky family moved to Forest Park area where Harold and his new bride Alma Goldman had an apartment on the top floor after their 1932 marriage. Harold and Alma later built a house in Baltimore where they raised their children. After Harold's retirement the couple moved to an apartment. Harold died at age 86 in Baltimore survived by his wife Alma and 2 children.