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Mayer Samuel Weiss
Updated May 27, 2025
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Mayer Samuel Weis was born on August 27th, 1829 in Miskolc, Hungary, to Abraham Weisz (1798 - 1908) and Chalotte Ratzersdorf (1818 - 1938). Both of his parents were born in Hungary. He had five younger siblings: four brothers, Samuel, Jakab, Mayer, and Ignatz and one sister, Dora.
Mayer Weiss married two times: First to Josephine Weiss, born 1835, in 1855 and next to Cecilia "Cisy" Steiner (1841 - 1913) in December of 1860. Mayer and Cisy had nine children: Herman, Meitl, Solomon, Nathan, Gottfried, Eric "Harry Houdini", Ferencz, Leopold, and Carrie.
Mayer received his Certificate of Ordination in Hungary in 1851. He left his wife and young children in Hungary and traveled to London, England, and then on to the United States. It is rumored that he killed a man in a duel and that he had to flee Hungary. By 1878, he had obtained a job as the Rabbi in Appleton, Wisconsin and he sent for his Hungarian family.
Mayer never learned to speak English and had difficulty getting another job after he lost his job in Wisconsin. After first moving to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the family moved to New York City and Mayer worked at a tie factor: R. Richter and Sons.
He died at the age of 63 after having an operation for tongue cancer and is buried in Queens, New York.
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