David Aronberg Explained

David Aronberg
Birth Date:April 3, 1893
Birth Place:Manchester, England
Office:29th Mayor of Ashland, Kentucky
Term Start:January 1, 1952
Term End:1955
Predecessor:Will C. Simpson
Successor:Wilburn Caskey
Office2:31st Mayor of Ashland, Kentucky
Term Start2:1960
Term End2:1964
Predecessor2:Wilburn Caskey
Successor2:Wilburn Caskey
Death Place:Ashland, Kentucky
Spouse:Sadie Freyman
Parents:Lewis Aronberg and Leah (Tarshes) Aronberg
Children:Gloria E. (Levine) and S. Harold Aronberg
Signature:aronberg_sig.jpg

David Aronberg (April 3, 1893 – February 11, 1967)[1] was a mayor of Ashland, Kentucky.[2] He was also a merchant, involved in the real estate business, and a soldier in the United States Army during World War I. Aronberg was a member of the Freemasons, Shriners, Kiwanis, Forty and Eight, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Elks, as well as the American Legion, of which he was vice commander.[3] [4] Aronberg was also chairman of the National Civil Defense Committee.[5]

Aronberg owned a chain of retail stores, being the senior partner of Aronberg and Pfeffer, along with David Pfeffer, from 1923 to 1956.[6] [7]

Aronberg was Jewish, and attended Congregation Agudath Achim in Ashland.[8]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.timeformemory.com/fh_obituary.cfm?obitid=15841&fhid=2&locationid=4 Time For Memory
  2. A History of Ashland, Kentucky 1786 - 1954
  3. http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/arnoldus-arzeno.html#00S1DX1Z0 The Political Graveyard
  4. The public papers of Governor Lawrence W. Wetherby, 1950-1955 by Lawrence Wetherby
  5. Hearings, Volume 1, United States Congress (1963)
  6. The National Jewish monthly: Volume 43 (1928)
  7. Fairchild's list of store executives (1930)
  8. Who's who in world Jewry by Harry Schneiderman and Itzhak J. Carim