Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-08-06
GATHERED TO HIS FATHERS.

GATHERED TO HIS FAIHEhS.
Sir Moses Montefore, the Centenariau
| Hebrew Philanteropfst, the Man Who
"Loved His Fellow Men," Taken to His
/ Rewara-A sketch OF His Life and Noble
i Deeds.
LONDON, July, 2s.-Sir Moses Monte.
1 fore died at his home at Gravesend at
1880 this afternoon. He was born Octo-
Der oath. 1884.
Sir Moses Montefiore was born October "a.
ls& at Leghorn, Italy, and not in London.
the tn american Hsa cyei Hedf sta tes
The error is natural. since Sir Moses
Italian ancestors celebrated as London
| bankers for more than two hundred years.
| Moses was the first born son of Joseph Elias
Montefiore and his wife Rachel Mocatta, and
| his native city made special preparations
| for the celebration of his centenary-indeed,
| nearly AL the towns In Italy was presented
| to him on that day, and at Rome rab-
hinlea The is n one of the ods
est and most honorable families in Italy;
| But Sir Moses was brought up and educated
after a careful commercial training
he was admitted to membership in the
Stock e. In ISL Them he married
law of Nathan Meyer Rothschild the
founder of the London branch of that house.
her husband for full fifty years enough
| unhappiiy chiIdIess), was his unwearied as
lady of great mental endowment, charm.
ing character, of fine literary tastes, and
she wrote an interesting account OF one OF
her husband, published In 1871, under the
title, Notes Of Private Journal OF visit
to Egypt and PALESTINE" She died Septem-
haY9 Sir MnSpS embodied &
his love and bereavement in his noble, de-
clared determination to'embalm her mem.
ory by "redoubling his benevOlence toward
the living" This he has done by his an.
nual gift in her name to Belle Lane Jews
ways. The Convalescent Home at south
Norwood was built BY yav the Mon English
ish College in Ramsgate in her name.
HE WAS SHERIFF..
1t is fact we'll worthy of note amid what:
ever record OF court ceremonial and OF
Of
elected Sheriff of London, the first jew who
had ever been chosen for that office; and
Her Majesty when she visited the city on the
follow ing Lord Mayors Day The expansion,
equality, which has been one of tue most
remarkable characteristics of the reign of
Queen Victoria, could hardly have been
more becomingly inaugurated than by the
compliment which sovereign and city paid
to Sir Moses Montefiore. The compliment
was merited, for Sir Moses already had
world wide fame for his philanthropy The
wear before he went through Syria, which
had been racked by earthquakes and ravag-
eGi by plague, and in nearly every town gave
large sums of money for the relief Of the
starving sufferers He made his 81, second CO =.
and in company with the famous French
lawyer, NJ. CrenieuX, for the relief of the
Rm fnnd of Of wSc Mas
his own contribution. In a personal inter-
view with Mehemet Ali he made such an i'm
preston upon that Pasha of Egypt that he
at once relea the Jews who had been i'm
prisoned, granted the free return of fugitives
and guaranteed such future protection as
Sir Moses demanded. The Pasha's personal
regard for him was such that when he sent
his son to England to be educated he placed
turn from this successful expedition, Queen
Victoria showed her pleasure by granting to
porters in his family arms, a privilege con-
ceded only to peers of the realm and to
time a magnificent memorial, scuiptured by
Baltic in 200 ounces of solid silver, was pre-
scented to him by deputation of f eitizen rs
testimonial to his worth and work.
HIS NOBLE DEEDS.
In 1912, in a time of epidemic, he estab-
lished dspensary in Jerusalem, and sent
out a physician to take charge of it, paying
the entire expenses and pedsing himself to
sustain the institution TIL a regular hospital
could be built In 1916, when the Cars
ukase removed thousands of Hebrew fami.
lies from Poland to Russia, Sir Moses and
person al intercesSion, induced Nicholas fl rSt
to suspend and then to abandon the nkase.
He then made tour to visit his own people
in Russia and Western Poland, scattering
profuee largesses In every town. The favor
umphal journey, and on his return to En-
gland, at the instance of Premier Sir Robert
baronet. 1t would require columns to re-
count in detail all the public benefactions
of Sir Moses and volumes to record bis pri-
vate charities. In 1884, when the famine
broke out in Palestine, he collected
E2e.eoo, went again to the East and
firman permitting him to hold real estate in
Jerusalem. to establish poor houses, and to
and agriculture. He made six successive
visits to Constantinople, each time securing
from the Sultan some concession Cor the re-
assistance nee Of the British G Government, Louis
Napoleon and Isabella of spain, all strongly
of Morocco a firman guaranteeing to the
prosecuted Jews the same protection ac-
London congratuiatory1a addresses came to
him from every civilized country in the
world, and the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and
other city authorities celebrated the return
Of the philanthropic octogenarian by a ban
quot in GuildhalI. His last visit-the seventh |
to his proteges In Palestine was in 1885, in his
eighty second year, when the country was |
suffering from drought and the people from |
cholera He expended vast sums for the re. |
lief of the sufferers, and suggested and Sc
cured greatly improved facilities for supply. |
ing the city of Jerusalem with water. AS |
memorial of his successful journey, on his |
return he sent sums of money from his own |
means to each OF the synagOgues, colleges, |
schools and various charitable Jewish insti- |
tutions in Great Britain. The successive |
birthdays of Sir Moses have been celebrated |
in London and elsewhere, and the occasion |
in 1873 was specially marked by his receipt of
''the freedom of the city of London" with a
valuable present, in token of his universal
benevoIence, which had been confined to no
class or creed, but was unbounded it
was constant On the oath of October last
Sir Moses attained his hundredth birthday,
and his centennial anniversary was cele-
brated in England with great ecIat