page_title: Max Samuel Grifenhagen
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Max Samuel Grifenhagen / Family Origins / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Passenger list showing the immigration of Max's father, Benjamin William Grifenhagen (originally spelled Greifenhagen)
context_page_description: Max Samuel Grifenhagen was an American entrepreneur, businessman, manufacturer, and notable Republican politician in New York City in the early 1900s. He was the noted sheriff of New York County, an alderman, and a city registrar.
context_section_description: Max was born on May 12, 1861, in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois to Benjamin William Grifenhagen (January 3, 1820; Wollstein – November 4, 1866; Chicago, IL) and Esther Voss Grifenhagen (December 24, 1819 Wollstein – August 18, 1909; New York, NY).
  His parents, Benjamin and Esther, immigrated from the former German town of Wollstein in the Posen Province, Prussia, Germany, (now Wolsztyn, Poland) to the United States in the mid 1850s with Max's older brother, Jacob B. Grifenhagen (January 7, 1852; Wollstein – March 6, 1914; New York, NY).
  Max's parents then had a daughter, Bertha Grifenhagen (April 22, 1857 – May 13, 1923), in Boston, Massachusetts. They eventually settled in Chicago, Illinois, where they would give birth to Max Samuel Grifenhagen and his two younger siblings, Edward Grifenhagen (November 25, 1863 – November 25, 1914; New York, NY) and Florence Grifenhagen Rosenblum (July 2, 1866 – May 18, 1937; New York, NY).
caption: Passenger list showing the immigration of Max's father into the United States
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