Abraham David (Birnbaum) Beame (1906 - 2001)

Born 20 Mar 1906 in London, England, United Kingdom

Husband of Mary (Ingerman) Beame — married 18 Feb 1928 in Manhattan, New York County, New York, United States

Died 10 Feb 2001 at age 94 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

Preceded by
John V. Lindsay

104th Mayor of New York City
1974-1977

Succeeded by
Ed Koch

Biography

Abraham (Birnbaum) Beame is Notable.

Abraham was born in 1906 in London, England, a son of Philip Birnbaum and Esther Goldfarb. In an oral history interview, Abraham Beame described the story of his family's emigration, as had been told to him by his father. Abraham Beame said that his parents were born in Russia and lived in Warsaw (then part of Russia). His father Philip (last name not given in the oral history), a learned man and a socialist, had become involved with a group opposed to the czar. One day he heard that he was about to be arrested, so he immediately packed up to leave for America, taking his two sons with him. He told his pregnant wife to go to London to stay with her sister who lived there, and said he would send for her after he got to America. Abraham was born in London during the months that his mother was there.^[1]

He arrived in New York in August 1906 with his mother Esther and brothers Isidore and Joe.^[2] (Apparently the brothers had gone to London with their mother, rather than accompanying their father to America.) His father Philip had preceded them to America, arriving in New York in March. ^[3] His mother's sister who had lived in London also went to New York, possibly at the same time as Esther and the children, and lived near the Beame family.^[1]

The family lived on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His mother died when he was 6 years old, and Abraham knew very little about her.^[1]

He married Mary Ingerman on 18 February 1928 in Manhattan.^[4] They had two sons.

He died at age 94 on 10 February 2001, at New York University Medical Center in Manhattan, New York, from complications of open heart surgery.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Abraham Beame oral history interview (audio recording), 17 May 1993. Box: EI-316; Oral History Project, Ellis Island Immigration Museum. Ancestry.com. New York City, Ellis Island Oral Histories, 1892-1976 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. At https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2142&h=2827
2. ↑ "New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JF8X-7NP : 18 December 2020), Abraham Birnbaum, 1906.
3. ↑ Naturalization petition of Philip Beame, "New York, County Naturalization Records, 1791-1980," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9M8-7JTB?cc=1999177&wc=MDSY-H3D%3A326209701%2C329454101 : 7 November 2018), New York > Petitions for naturalization and petition evidence 1913 vol 121, no 29601-29637, 29728-29850 > image 303 of 365; Citing multiple County Clerk offices of New York.
4. ↑ "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24WP-SQ9 : 10 February 2018), Abraham D. Beame and Mary Ingerman, 18 Feb 1928; citing Marriage, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York City Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,653,338.
5. ↑ McFadden, Robert D. Abraham Beame Is Dead at 94; Mayor During 70's Fiscal Crisis. The New York Times, 11 February 2001, page 1.

• "New York State Census, 1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9K6-YBZ : 8 November 2014), Abraham Beame, New York, New York, New York, United States; from "New York, State Census, 1915," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2012); citing p. 07, line 17, state population census schedules, 1915, New York State Archives, Albany.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4VQ-ZQH : accessed 21 December 2020), Abraham Beam, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 733, sheet 14A, line 24, family 296, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1529; FHL microfilm 2,341,264.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQRG-15R : 28 July 2019), Abraham Beame, Assembly District 18, Brooklyn, New York City, Kings, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 24-2102A, sheet 4B, line 49, family 84, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2601.
• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JP4Z-XY8 : 19 May 2014), Abraham D Beame, 10 Feb 2001; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).

See also:

• Wikipedia: Abraham Beame
• Wikidata: Item Q329910, en:Wikipedia
• Abraham David “Abe” Birnbaum Beame (1906-2001) on Find A Grave: Memorial #151704275 retrieved 17 September 2019