Smith-Kupersmith Family Papers

Myer Smith was the eldest of five brothers with the youngest being Stanley Kupersmith. In the process of Americanization, two of the brothers took the name Smith and the other three became Kupersmith’s. Myer Smith wed Mary Smith and the couple had two children, Evelyn Smith and Louis Smith. Mary Smith’s parents were Rebecca Sandler and Sam Yaronsky. In 1949 Evelyn Smith married Edward Levine after his World War II service in the Coast Guard. They had two children in 1954 and 1958, Linda Levine Keegan and Jeffery Levine. Edward Levine had a half-brother Barney Levine, an older brother Carl Levine, and a sister Beatrice Levine who married Julius Lazin. Beatrice and Julius Lazin had two children, Rona and Melvin Levine.

Stanley S. Kupersmith, whose photographs in scrapbooks make up most of this collection, was born in 1910 in the Russian Empire. Kupersmith graduated in 1927 from English High School in Boston, Massachusetts.

In 1941 he joined the United States army as a private in the 181st Infantry Company I. Kupersmith was later promoted to private first class, and then to corporal. After taking part in army maneuvers in the Carolinas he served in Europe, leaving the army with a bronze star and a honorable discharge.

After the war he worked in various clerking and office jobs. Stanley Kupersmith died in 1990.

1910

Stanley Kupersmith is born

1927

Stanley Kupersmith graduates from English High School

1941

Stanley Kupersmith enlists in the United States army

1941

Stanley Kupersmith is made a private, first class

1941

Stanley Kupersmith is made a corporal

1941

Stanley Kupersmith participates in military maneuvers in the Carolinas

1945

Stanley Kupersmith is honorably discharged from the army

1990

Stanley Kupersmith dies