Maria Ajar Immigration Record

This immigration record was produced at Ellis Island on December 26, 1911, sent to Bernard M. Sheridan, Superintendent of Schools in Lawrence, MA, and signed by Acting Commissioner Byron Hall. It confirms Maria Ajar's arrival in the United States on December 5, 1911. It provides further information about Maria, including her age, 16, her occupation, "domestic," and the fact that she was literate and traveling with her sister to join their brother in Lawrence, Massachusetts. It also indicates that they traveled on the S.S. Chicago on the French Line and were recorded on Manifest no. 16-2.

Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies

Byron Hall

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