Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon for Solomon Bieley, former representative of several Jewish newspapers in the Western States, at the Neiberg Memorial Chapel, 141 Ludlow street. Rabbi A. F. Newman officiated and Cantor Mordecai Shapiro chanted the memorial.
Interment followed at Mount Lebanon Cemetery.
Bieley died Sunday afternoon at his home in Dover, New Jersey. He was eighty years old.
The deceased, born in Ukrania, was a scholar and practiced the traditional laws of the Jewish people. His family, Hassidim, during the Russo-Turkish war migrated from Austria to Russia.
One of Bieley’s ancestors on his father’s side was Rabbi Judah Leb Bernstein, the first land rabbi of Austria, while on his mother’s side he was descended from the family of Baron Eskeles, financial adviser of Carl the Sixth.
When the Bieleys arrived in Russia their family name was Babad, but since in Russia at that time there were no family names, they adopted the name Bieley some time afterwards.
In that country Bieley was a tobacco merchant. He attempted to organize tobacco dealers, but the Czarist government termed this socialism and forbade it. He lost his fortune during the pogroms of 1905 and emigrated here, at the age of 52. He at first entered the tobacco business but later became the traveling agent of orthodox Jewish papers.
Surviving him are his widow, Bessie, three sons, Louis, circulation manager of the Jewish Morning Journal, Paul and Boris, and two married daughters, Mrs. Nathan Kleinman and Mrs. Aaron Dolmatch.
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