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     The first Sephardic Jew to arrive in 20th century Los Angeles was Mordecai Zeitoun, a veteran of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, a native of Algeria.
He was an entrepreneur in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, Missouri in 1904. ""Papa"" as he was affectionately known, along with his daughter Rose arrived in Los Angeles during the closing months of 1904. probably in October or early November. They were followed by brothers Louis and David Bramy. David married Rose Zeitoun on March 6, 1906 and their son, Roger was the first known Sephardi to be born in Los Angeles on February 14, 1907. Mordecai Zeitoun immigrated in 1904.

     Medicine: Hard Heart
Monday, Sep. 28, 1936

Last week a rare medical marvel named Regina Bramy died in San Francisco and Drs. Harold Brunn & Albert Lincoln Brown finally completed her case history.

Five years ago Mrs. Bramy. wife of a dress peddler, mother of four, went to Dr. Brown, complaining of pain in her chest. He decided that a general infection had inflamed the thin sac called the pericardium which contains the heart and caused it to adhere to Mrs. Bramy's breast bone. Surgeon Brown excised a section of the woman's sternum and ribs together with enough rib gristle to enable him to reach into her chest and free the pericardium from its adhesions. At the same time he removed a tiny bit of pericardial tissue. As he suspected, that wall of Mrs. Bramy's heart was beginning to turn to stone.

For three years Mrs. Bramy was able to look after her family. Then, to relieve her hardening heart, Surgeons Brunn & Brown were obliged to remove a rigid 2-by-3 in. section from her calcifying pericardium. That type of operation was rare. Rarer was the patient's survival in comfort for another two years.

Fortnight ago, in an operation whose consequences were pneumonia and death last week. Surgeons Brunn & Brown removed still more of the stone wall around Mrs. Bramy's heart. At her autopsy the remainder of her pericardium was found to be solid marble, 1/8 to 1/2 in. thick.

     On 19 October 1943 at U.S. World War II Army Enlistment, San Francisco, California, Name: Albert R Bramy Birth Year: 1915 Race: White, citizen (White) Nativity State or Country: Oregon State: California County or City: San Francisco Enlistment Date: 19 Oct 1943 Enlistment State: California Enlistment City: San Francisco Branch: No branch assignment Branch Code: No branch assignment Grade: Private Grade Code: Private Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men) Source: Civil Life Education: 2 years of college Civil Occupation: Instrument Repairman, Nonelectrical or Traffic Man, Railway (Car distributor, railway. ) or Dispatcher, Railway or Yardmaster Marital Status: Single, without dependents.

     Sarah Colling was a Tailoress in 1880.

     Willard William Kleeber graduated in 1938 at Reedsburg High School, Reedsburg, Sauk, Wisconsin.

     Mildred A. Wiseman graduated in 1936 at Reedsburg High School, Reedsburg, Sauk, Wisconsin.

     Vera Mae Kleeber graduated in 1938 at Reedsburg High School, Reedsburg, Sauk, Wisconsin.

     AUGUST KLEEBER, son of August and Maria (HART) KLEEBER, was born Aug. 19, 1861, in Winfield; married March 14, 1888, Lizzie McINTOSH, daughter of Lachlan and Catherine (CAMERON) McINTOSH. She was born Nov. 7 1869. They have eight children, as follows: Pearl, b. Nov. 14, 1889, at home; Glen, b. May 18, 1891, married Madaline BATES, and has two children, Glennet and Margaret; Venelia, wife of Charles OSENROTH; Clinton, b. March 17, 1895, d. July 20, 1897; Hilbert S., b. June 11, 1898, married and has two children, Wilard and Vera May; Hazel Luelia, b. Dec. 22, 1901, and married Albert HIRST - has one child, Winnifred; Mildred Theresa, b. Oct. 24, 1907; and Charlotte Elizabeth, b. April 3, 1908 (actually 03 Apr 1917).

     Elizabeth C. McIntosh had 5 with 4 living in 1900 children. She had 7 with 6 living in 1910 children.

     August KLEEBER came about this time also. He, a native of Wittenburg, Germany, came to America in 1845, stopped at Albany, where, in 1852, he married Maria HART, a native of that place, and one child Emeline was born there. This family located on the Henry WAGNER farm, where four more children were born: Leonard; August, married Elizabeth McINTOSH, Winfield; Julia, married Louis STRUBEING, and removed to Oshkosh, Wisconsin; and John, now a dentist of Madison.

     Maria Hart had 5 with 5 living in 1900 children.

     At Reedsburg, Sauk, Wisconsin, biography.³ KLEEBER, GLEN, Reedsburg. Inducted March 8, 1918, Baraboo; served as private, 244th Aero Sq. A.S; mustered out Feb. 7, 1919. On 5 June 1917 at World War I Draft Registration, Sauk, Wisconsin.

     Henriette (?) had 7 with 7 living in 1900 children.