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TitleThe Geller family. Couple on their wedding day.
Biographical NoteThe families of Samuel (1879-1960) and Annie (nee Hanna Leah Gorbach, 1877-1947) Geller came to the United States from Poland/Russia at the end of the 19th Century. They settled in Brooklyn on a farm located at 1023 Sheffield Avenue. Samuel was a tailor and member of the United Garment Workers of America. Their children Irving (1906-1986), Benny (1910-1977), Morris (1912-1995), and sister Jean grew up on the farm. Morris, an automobile mechanic, opened a gas station with his brothers on their parents’ land around 1950. Morris married Minnie (nee Kaplan, 1916-1993) in 1944 and they had three sons: Richard (1945-2011), Allen (1950-) and Harold (1955-).