Nanci and Allan Garon's Family Website
Jews of Hibbing - Introduction

Many of our Jewish ancestors imigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe and settled in the Duluth, Superior, the Iron Range and the surrounding areas of Northern Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. They came in the late 1800s and early 1900s. This family website is about our family, our huge extended family and about many of the other Jews who settled and lived in this region. This page is specifically about the Jews of Hibbing, Minnesota.

Some of our family names that have been associated with Hibbing are as follows: Lindeke, Gram, Bloom, Henry Cohen, David Oxman, Benesovitz, Stein, Hallock, Vernon Norvitch, Edelstein Zimmerman, Stone, Sher.


Links to other sites or pages of interest

Historic Hibbing Images - - click here      (page on this website)

The Relocation of Hibbing, 1919–1921 - - click here      (MNopedia website)

Hibbing - Welcome to Bob Dylan's Hibbing - - click here      (website)
Family and Friends - Dountown (busnesses) - School Days - Hertzl Camnp - Recreation and Music - Society

Gordon Family History in Hibbing - - click here      (pdf file)
from Phil Gordon - June 2008
"It was 1922. I was about 5 years old and moved with my family from Virginia, Minnesota to another iron range town, Hibbing."




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