Joseph Fatman ^{1 2}

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1860 in New York, New York, NY. ¹ The 1860 census recorded Joseph Fatman, tobacco dealer, 46, living with wife Fanny, 40, both born in Bavaria. With them are children born in Pennsylvania: Isabel 18, Louisa 14, and Solomon 16; and children born in New York: Rachel 13, Therese 9, William, 8, Frederic 7, Charlot 5, and Alfred, 3. Also in the home is a servant, Clara Gross, 24, born in Germany.

2. Cause of Death: bowels, perforation of intestine. Fatman, Joseph, 55, Germany, merchant., Oct 1869, New York, New York, NY. ⁵

3. Obituary: New York Herald: obituary of Joseph Fatman on 12 Oct 1869 in New York, New York, NY. ⁶ Joseph Fatman
This gentleman, prominent among our Jewish fellow citizens, died in this city last week, and was burried sunday evening last. Mr. Fatman was a native of Germany, where he was born about 1813. He immigrated to this country about thirty years ago, and began life in the humble calling of a pedlar in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. By his energy and industry he was enabled, two years later, to open a factory in Philadelphia, which he continued in operation some six years, at which time he moved to New York and began business as a retail dealer in cigars. About the year 1861 his transactions were exclusively wholesale, his firm having become one of the largest in the tobacco trade in this city, whith extensive branches in New Orleans, Galveston, Bremen, and Liverpool. While engaged in amassing the large fortune he possessed Mr. Fatman found time to perform works of charity. He was one of the most active officers of the Mount Sinai Hospital, and was for a long time president of the Hebrew Benevolent Society and the Orphan Asylum. To these institutions he made large donations, amounting in one instance to $10,000, and was unremitting in releaving the wants of his coreligionists, as well as of the poor general. To the Jews of the country in particular, and to all lovers of humanity, whether Christian or Jew, the intelligence of Mr. Fatman's death will be heard with regret.

Joseph married Frances Brandeis. (Frances Brandeis was born in 1817 in , , Bayern, DEU,^{1 7} died on 29 Jan 1881 in New York, New York, NY ^{7 8} and was buried in Brooklyn: Salem Fields Cemetery, Kings, NY ⁷.)