6. Max² Aronoff (Salman¹ Aronow) was born in Dagda, Latvia, Russia 1890. Max died 1949 in San Gabriel, CA, at age 59.

He married Sarah Bernice Greenspoon February 20, 1925 in Brookline, MA. Sarah was born May 6, 1900 in Tzarogrod, Poland, Russia. Sarah was the daughter of Louis Greenspoon and Ida Bronfman. Sarah died May 12, 1993 in Santa Monica, at age 93. Sarah and Max Aronoff are the parents of Richard Newell Aronoff. Sarah and Max Aronoff are the parents of Robert Lewis Aronoff.

Max and Sarah Bernice Greenspoon are the parents of Richard Newell Aronoff. Max and Sarah Bernice Greenspoon are the parents of Robert Lewis Aronoff. Max arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, around the age of 17, thanks to his brother Sam providing the funds for passage from Dagda, Latvia. Max was taken in by people from Dagda or the nearby area, who were presumably related. He remained in Halifax a number of years, probably until the early 1920's, whereupon he immigrated to the Boston, MA, USA. In 1925, he married Sarah Bernice Grinspoon in which they happily shared "wedded bliss" until Max's passing. He died of cancer (a melanoma on the bottom of his foot). He was the first of the 9 Aronoff siblings to die. He was otherwise healthy, medically speaking, other than he was an inveterate smoker up to within a couple of years of his death.

He did not know any English before arriving in Canada. He never attended formal schooling, but totally self-educated himself. He was fluent in Yiddish when first arriving in Canada, but became an only-English speaker as the years wore on -- although, he would read Yiddish books for pleasure.

He and his wife were granted a Ford, Mercury and Lincoln dealership in a small New England town and opened that dealership in 1930 and successfully operated it until 1948, when diagnosed with the cancer which consumed him. That business was sold and the family moved to San Gabriel, California. Max died about 10 months later after moving. MDs had said he would last another 5 years in a "warm climate" which occasioned the family's move to California. Even though the family had a certain financial security with a well-respected and established small busines in the community, the decision was made to move for Max's health.

The family was not religious, in fact, there was no "Jewish" life in that small town in New England. It should be noted that Henry Ford was a reknown anti-Semite at the time and yet a dealership was granted to them (did the Ford Motor Company think they were not Jews?). In all of New England, there was maybe one other "Jewish" Ford dealer (Ware, Massachusetts).

While the purpose of the move to Calif was effectively thwarted, the family started all over again and managed to re-established itself under a condition which might be described today as a "single parent 'family' with dependent children". The remaining family never thought in those terms. It simply moved on doing the best it could. Both children graduated from college, USC and UCLA, and had their own successful careers. Max's widow did the same developing real estate interests by herself. Submitted May 4, 2005.

Max Aronoff and Sarah Bernice Greenspoon had the following children:

+ 16 i. Richard Newell³ Aronoff (still alive).

17 ii. Robert Lewis Aronoff (still alive).

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