David LILIENSTERN

                   NOTES:
    Lived at 148 Attorney St. in 1866 when he filed for naturalization. Naturalized Oct 26 1866. Bundle 165, record 87.
                  

                   From FindAGrave.com: Morris, his wife Mathilda, and their four sons George, Eugene, Henry, and Oscar moved to Mount Pleasant in 1881. He bought an interest in Hargrove's General Merchandise which was located on the corner of North Jefferson and East Second Streets. A charter for a banking institution was issued to the First National Bank, in Mount Pleasant, TX on April 5, 1892. Morris was on the first Board of Directors.

Passport application:
Born at Ortenberg, Germany on 14 Feb 1842.
Immigrated aboard the Annapolis from Havre, France, on or about May 1 1852. 
Resided 48 years uninterrupted in the US.
Lived in New York City; Clayton, Alabama; and Mt Pleasant, Texas.
Naturalized at New York on 26 Oct 1866
Passport application for 3 months, made 4 May 1900.

Description:
Age 58, 5'4". Dark Brown eyes, Medium nose, medium mouth, medium chin, almost entirely gray hair (originally black), Medium complexion, round face.

Dallas News - Jan 14 1900, Lilienstern-Badt Cotton Company was incorporated, stock of $20,000. Company to buy and sell cotton. Morris Lilienstern, J. M. Badt., E. S. Lilienstern.

Dallas News - July 15 1912 - Organized First State Bank of Talco in Mt. Pleasant, $12,000 capital.

Dallas News - Morris Lilienstern Dead - Retired Banker and Business Man of Mt Pleasant passes away at Paris. Paris Texas, Feb 22, Morris Lilienstern of Mount Pleasant, aged 74 years, died at a sanitarium in Paris this morning and the body was taken back to his home this afternoon for burial, accompanied by his three sons, E. S., George and Oscar Lilienstern, and a number of friends. The deceased was a wealthy retired capitalist and philanthropist who had lived in Mount Pleasant many years. E. S. Lilienstern is president of the Guaranty State Bank of Mt. Pleasant. 
---M. Lilienstern, aged 74 years, of this city and one of the best known business men, bankers and cotton dealers in this part of the state, who died at Paris today, will be buried in Mount Pleasant wednesday. Mr. Lilienstern was a resident of this city for forty years and leaves an estate valued at $100,000. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Werener of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Messrs. Eugene, George, and Oscar Lilienstern of this city.
                  

                   NOTE:
    Lived in Boston in 1917 and 1921, according to city directories.
    Death recorded on 7 Jan 1933, Certificate #817, in Manhattan.
                  

                   NOTES:
    H. Lilienstern appears as a mortgager of $135 for household furniture to L. Lilienstern in NYC, between May 16 and 22, 1890. Likely Hermon and Lafayette Lilienstern, brothers
    Arrived in the US aboard the Steamer America, sailing from Bremen to NYC on 11 Mar 1867. 18 years old, listed as "merchant"
    1910 - Sold his store to his son in law Bird Old Sr. (Letter from Herman Old)
    1914 - Sold their store to Bird Old Sr. and moved to Cincinnati.
    1917 - Hermon died and was cremated.  Sara moved back to Mt Pleasant to live with daughter Ruth and husband Bird Old.

Daughter Ruth wrote to a kids section of the newspaper on 2 Feb 1896:
Ruth Lilienstern, Mt Pleasant, TX. - Mr Big Hat and cousins' I thought I would write you for the first time. I am 7 years old. I started to school in the summer. I am in the first reader. I have two sisters and two brothers. We had a big burn out one Sunday morning. Iona Caldwell has a little deer. Our next door neighbor has a little baby girl. My sister Fannie, has the mumps now. My sister, Blanche, won the medal. I got a pretty doll Christmas. Mota Rolstor got the prize in arithmatic for learning the multiplication table in a week.

Daughter Fannie wrote to a kids section of the newspaper on 10 Jan 1897:
Anna Belle Clement and Fannie Lilienstern, Mount Pleasant, Tex. - Mr Big Hat and Cousins; It has been a long time since we have written to you. Our town is building a new courthouse now, and it has a very pretty steeple, but it is too heavy for the foundation, and it will have to be torn down. The people of this town are going to put a clock in the steeple that can be heard two miles from town when it strikes. We are in fractions in our arithmatic. We all will be happy when merry Christmas is here. Our fathers take The News and we take the Cozy Corner from our brothers. One of our friends, Esther Badt, who is 13 years of age, has joined the Cozy Corner.

Elected Mt. Pleasant City Alderman on Apr 2 1907.
                  

                   NOTES:
    Jewish Messenger text from June 5, 1891: Hebrew Orphan Assylum "...The Betty Frankenheimer prizes of $10 each, in commemoration of the giver's birthdate, went to Lafayette Lilienstern and Sallie Morris..."
    Death recorded on 31 May 1925. Certificate number 14784 in Manhattan.