Benzel Kallen^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]}

1814 - 1893  (78 years)

• Name	Benzel Kallen  [1, 2, 5]
  Birth	19 May 1814	Telz, Kovno governorate, Russia (now Telšiai, Lithuania)   [1, 2, 5, 6, 7]
  Gender	Male
  Name	Yosef Bentsion Kalon  [3, 4, 6]
  Residence	1883	Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
  Death	27 Feb 1893	Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States   [1, 2, 6, 7]
  	Place: 65 Liberty St.; cause: phthisis pulmonalis [pulmonary consumption]; physician: Dr. Myron Lane
  		Benzel Kallen death rec Chicago 1893
  Burial	United States   [1, 6]
  Person ID	I122272317960	Martin Rind Tree
  Last Modified	31 May 2026

  
  

  Father	Meyer Kalon,   b. abt. 1790, Telz, Kovno Governorate, Russia (now Telšiai, Lithuania) d. 6 Apr 1855, Telz, Kovno Governorate, Russia (now Telšiai, Lithuania) (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Mere,   b. abt. 1793   d. 17 Nov 1868, Telz, Kovno Governorate, Russia (now Telšiai, Lithuania) (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F1482	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Basa Khonolovna,   b. abt. 1815, Kovno Province, Russia (now Lithuania) d. 26 Sep 1879, Telz, Kovno governorate, Russia (now Telšiai, Lithuania) (Age 64 years)
  Children	1. Bernard (Borach) Kallen,   b. Abt. 1837, Telz, Kovno guberniya, Russia (now Telšiai, Lithuania) d. 2 Sep 1901, Chicago, Cook, Illinois (Age 64 years)   2. Clara Kallen,   b. Dec 1841, Telz, Kovno guberniya, Russia (now Telšiai, Lithuania) d. 18 March 1916, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States of America (Age 74 years)   3. Anna Kallen,   b. Oct 1861, Telz, Kovno guberniya, Russia (now Telšiai, Lithuania) d. 7 May 1905, Galesburg, Illinois (Age 43 years)
  Family ID	F1943	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 May 2026

  
  

• Sources

  [S157453432] Ancestry.com, Cook County, Illinois, U.S., Deaths Index, 1878-1922, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). [S157419581] Ancestry.com, Web: Illinois, U.S., Select Deaths Index, 1877-1916, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). Isadore Levinson autobiography. P. 98: "I was introduced to a young lady from Telz, from the state of Kovno Russ-Polen, of a respectable family, she and her father were living with a brother" (in 1883). / P. 167: "September 4-1896 my wife gave birth to a boy our only son we named him after my wifes, and my father (Peretz ben Zion) Paul Ben" Marriage records at LitvakSIG. Marriage record of Borukh Kalon, 18 Nov 1858, and marriage record of Krosa Kalon, 22 Oct 1861, both identify their father as Bentsel Kalon. LItvakSIG revision lists. Date of reivsion: 25 Apr 1834 / Head of household: Meier Kalon; age at last revision, 24; at this revision, 42 [b. 1791/2] / Wife of Meier: Mere Kalon; age at this revision, 37 [b. 1796/7] / Son of Meier: Bentsel Kalon; age at this revision, 18; at last revision: newborn [b. 1815/6] / Wife of Bentsel: Base Kalon; age 18 [b. 1815/16] Burial record at Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois. Surname: KALLEN / Given name: J. B. / Date of birth: 1815 / Date of death: 28 Feb 1895 / Collection: Oakwoods - Ohave [Shalom] Mariampol Cemetery / Notes [location]: E 06 09 // פ"נ / אחי היקר בן (תורה) / יראת ה' טהורה שו(חט) / ובודק מר ברוך בן / מוהר יוסף בן ציון / קאלען / בן (ס_) (כ_) שנה ____ אלול / התרכא לפק (LIGATURE) / תנצבה // here is buried / my dear brother, son of Torah/moral / G-d fearing purity, slaughterer / and checker MR (honorific) Baruch son of / MOHR (honorific) Yosef BenTzion / Kallen / 60 (something) years old ____ Elul / 5621 by the small count (ligature) / May his soul be bound in the bond of life (abbreviation) Cook County death record of Benzel Kallen at FamilySearch. Name Benzel Kallen / Sex Male / Age 78 / Death Date 27 Feb 1893 / Death Place Cook, Illinois, United States / Death Place (Original) Chicago, Cook, Illinois / Death Age 78y 9m 12d [implies birth on 19 May 1814] / Birth Year (Estimated) 1815 / Birthplace Russia / Marital Status Widowed / Race White / Ethnicity American / Record Number 36 / Cemetery Waldheim