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Thanks B-59, we'll add his full name to the catalog record.

He was one of the 249 persons deported to the Soviet Union in December 1919. "Feodor Kushnarev -This man is about twenty-one years of age. He formerly resided at 242 East Twelfth Street. He is a Hebrew and says he left Russia to study in the United States, but had never intended to make this country hie permanent home. He was an organizer for the union and was quite active in all its affairs. He is a strong advocate of free love." New-York tribune., December 23, 1919, Page 3, col. 2 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1919-12-23/ed-...

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More at a site with brief reportage on the Buford Deportees: "Kushnareo (or Kushnarev), Feodor; alias Dalney, Alexander Avrich, Anarchist Voices. 367: Worked on Khleb i Volia. Jewish. Organized branch of URW in New Haven with K.F. Gordienko. Became secretary of URW in NY. NY Tribune 23 Dec 1919: About twenty-one; resided at 242 E. 12th St.; Hebrew, left Russia for U.S. to study, organizer in Union of Russian Workers, “a strong advocate of free love”. Claghorn, The Immigrant’s Day in Court: (392) Jewish. Born in Kiev. Came to U.S. via England in 1914. Studied at NYC People’s House. Denied that he was an anarchist, claimed belief in organized government. Described URW as an organization for self-enlightenment. Had received education in Russia." editorsnotes.org/projects/emma/notes/96/

If you read the unvarnished history of the Russian Revolution you will find that many of the instigators had a similar background. The odd part about it is that the very same people were dealt with ruthlessly under the Communists. Useful Idiots indeed...

James Martinus Schoonmaker (1842-1927), Civil War veteran, vice-president of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railway Company, on the board of directors at Mellon Bank; husband of Rachel Cook, father of three (Gretchen, William, and JM Jr.): profilesintime.blogspot.com/2007/03/james-martinus-schoon...

Thanks pennylrichardsca for the information about the career of James Schoonmaker. He even had a cargo ship named after him! We'll fill in the title information next time we update the record.

Photo is inscribed with the date (in reverse), 6/25/[19]13. That was the year in which a biography of Schoonmaker was published, titled "Colonel J. M. Schoonmaker and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad -- A Study of Personality and Ideals." You can read the complete text on Google Books: books.google.com/books?id=eH0pAAAAYAAJ&dq=j+m+schoonm...

Wystan: Thanks for spotting the date on the negative. We can add that information to the description, too, when we update it. Nice to connect it up with the biography!

I started a Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Martinus_Schoonmaker