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Benjamin Kotolowitz celebrated his 110th birthday yesterday afternoon in the auditorium of the Bialystoker Home for the Aged, 228 East Broadway.
Mr. Kotolowitz, believed to be the oldest Jew in New York City, was born in Lithuania and came to the United States in 1900. He has 200 children, grand children and great grand children all over the world.
President Roosevelt sent his felicitations to Kotolowitz.
Wounded at Antietam, Colonel Leopold Blumenberg of the Union Army served as provost-marshal in Baltimore for the remainder of the Civil War.
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