Sadie Halpern and Jacob Kaplan - Married 1904

At 18, Jacob Kaplan escaped from Russia in 1897, on the back of a hay wagon, when the Cossacks came to his village to conscipt the young men into the Army. He made his way to England and worked there for one year to pay for passage to the United States. He was a experienced cap maker, having worked in his Uncle's cap factory since he was nine years old, so that finding work in his trade was no problem.

Sadie Halpern came to the United State with her family around 1900 and they settled in Boston, Mass. where she met Jacob.

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Sadie Kaplan from Chernovitz, Austria	Jacob Kaplan from Butramuntz, Russia	Daughter Ceceil born 1906
Kaplan Twin Daughters Died 1908	Milton Sidney born 1911	Arnold John born 1916
More Kaplan Family HIstory A few years after Sadie and Jacob were married times were bad in Boston so they moved to Indiannapolis, Indiana, where Jacob looked for work and became a junk man with a horse and wagon for about a year. Then he went to work in a factory that made seat covers for the new invention called automobles. They moved back to Boston and he went to work at a local uniform cap factory owned by Fred H. Wentworth. In no time he was made the forman of the factory and when Mr. Wentworth died his wife sold the business to Jacob for One dollar, because her husband said Jacob made a lot of money for them. He stayed with the Wentworth Uniform Cap Co., until he retired right after World War II and moved to South Miami, Florida with his wife Sadie.