Briefly worked at the Targownik umbrella factory in the mid-1920's.
When Rubin Kaplan came to the US around 1924, his Uncle Szloma Chaim Targownik came and got him from the HIAS house and took him to his apartment at 123 Grand St. which was above the umbrella shop. Rubin wrote in his memoirs: " My uncle's wife, his second - of the Isaacson family, was a fine woman. I slept in the dining room,while in a small room next to me lived a Russian family who paid rent....my Uncle's son Rubin [Rywen Targovnik] and his wife Sarah lived across the street. They worked in the shop, fiximg an umbrella, or selling one. Most of the umbrella industry was in the hands of the Miedzyreczer landslite. Uncle got work from his landslite [Note from Alison: must have been from Nina's gr-grandfather [Icek Hersz Targownik] who owned the umbrella factory??]. Cousin Rubin had a black Ford and he took me along on his deliveries....Rubin and Sarah were very nice to me. They had two daughters, Sylvia and Blanche. Alfred was a baby then, less than a year old. It was a cold winter, and they would bundle him up and put him to sleep in a carriage outside. Uncle's dog, a small mutt, would watch the carriage. If the baby cried, he would come barking to Sarah. Somehow he also sensed Erev Shabbat - at least Uncle swore that the dog knew, and would rush upstairs and stay there. Blanche was a beautiful girl, but had consumption, and died."