The First Kancziger Aid Society was the NY-based landsmanshaft organization for former residents of Kańczuga. It was founded in Manhattan in 1902 with the purpose of helping the sick and destitute from Kańczuga, by members that lived on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The founding directors were Isaac Trauring, Aaron Wiesenfeld, Harris Rubenfeld, Marcus Trauring, Samuel Wiesenfeld, Nathan Schiffman, Pinkas Tarnowker, Philip Wolfman, and Max Frommer.

Below is the certificate of incorporation of the society, which was filed on Jan 8, 1902. After the cover, the first page has the name and purpose of the organization, the second page has the list of directors (with their addresses), and the final page has the signatures of the directors.

This document was shared many years ago in the Yahoo group for Kańczuga descendants, but as Yahoo is cutting back on group functionality, including deleting all files stored in the groups, I thought it would be useful to post it here.

This is the same society which created the cemetery sections for its members in the Mt. Zion cemetery in Queens, NY and the Mt. Lebanon cemetery in Iselin, NJ. Click on the links to those cemeteries to see photographs of the gravestones in them.

Now the certificate:

Are you related to any of the founding directors? If so, post a comment and tell everyone a bity about your relative.