Malka arrived from Baligrod, Austria in 1900, with her children, Harry, Jenny and Lottie, to join her husband Selig. Together the family built a small summer boarding house into the famous Grossinger's Hotel in the Catskill Mountains.∼From the Sullivan County Democrat DOWN THE DECADES in an issue printed Tuesday August 28 2012 page 6B:
"1952 Mrs Malka Grossinger, 81, matriarch of the family which founded Grossinger's Hotel and Country Club in Liberty, NY, died Saturday at the Catskill Mountain resort near Liberty. When Mrs. Grossinger's health failed the coiupled moved to Ferndale where they purchased a farm house tried their hands at chicken raising and market gardening. Failing in this venture, they decided to rent rooms in the seven-room- farm house, purchased for $450. and during their first season took in nine boarders who paid $9.00 per wook. By 1918, the business became so successful the couple set up tents in the back yard to take care of the increasing number of guests. Their daughter, Jennie, quit her job in the garment industry and came to the farm to help prepare meals and do chores. Her husband, Harry, remained in the city working in a clothing factory and spreading the work to city dwellers of the new boarding house in the Catskills."
"1952 Mrs Malka Grossinger, 81, matriarch of the family which founded Grossinger's Hotel and Country Club in Liberty, NY, died Saturday at the Catskill Mountain resort near Liberty. When Mrs. Grossinger's health failed the coiupled moved to Ferndale where they purchased a farm house tried their hands at chicken raising and market gardening. Failing in this venture, they decided to rent rooms in the seven-room- farm house, purchased for $450. and during their first season took in nine boarders who paid $9.00 per wook. By 1918, the business became so successful the couple set up tents in the back yard to take care of the increasing number of guests. Their daughter, Jennie, quit her job in the garment industry and came to the farm to help prepare meals and do chores. Her husband, Harry, remained in the city working in a clothing factory and spreading the work to city dwellers of the new boarding house in the Catskills."
Malka arrived from Baligrod, Austria in 1900, with her children, Harry, Jenny and Lottie, to join her husband Selig. Together the family built a small summer boarding house into the famous Grossinger's Hotel in the Catskill Mountains.∼From the Sullivan County Democrat DOWN THE DECADES in an issue printed Tuesday August 28 2012 page 6B:
"1952 Mrs Malka Grossinger, 81, matriarch of the family which founded Grossinger's Hotel and Country Club in Liberty, NY, died Saturday at the Catskill Mountain resort near Liberty. When Mrs. Grossinger's health failed the coiupled moved to Ferndale where they purchased a farm house tried their hands at chicken raising and market gardening. Failing in this venture, they decided to rent rooms in the seven-room- farm house, purchased for $450. and during their first season took in nine boarders who paid $9.00 per wook. By 1918, the business became so successful the couple set up tents in the back yard to take care of the increasing number of guests. Their daughter, Jennie, quit her job in the garment industry and came to the farm to help prepare meals and do chores. Her husband, Harry, remained in the city working in a clothing factory and spreading the work to city dwellers of the new boarding house in the Catskills."
"1952 Mrs Malka Grossinger, 81, matriarch of the family which founded Grossinger's Hotel and Country Club in Liberty, NY, died Saturday at the Catskill Mountain resort near Liberty. When Mrs. Grossinger's health failed the coiupled moved to Ferndale where they purchased a farm house tried their hands at chicken raising and market gardening. Failing in this venture, they decided to rent rooms in the seven-room- farm house, purchased for $450. and during their first season took in nine boarders who paid $9.00 per wook. By 1918, the business became so successful the couple set up tents in the back yard to take care of the increasing number of guests. Their daughter, Jennie, quit her job in the garment industry and came to the farm to help prepare meals and do chores. Her husband, Harry, remained in the city working in a clothing factory and spreading the work to city dwellers of the new boarding house in the Catskills."
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