| Event |
Date |
Details |
| Birth |
31 AUG 1903 |
Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
- Source:
- Social Security Death Index
Quality: Primary
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| Death |
26 SEP 1989 |
Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
- Source:
- Social Security Death Index
Quality: Primary
Source Text: 335-34-9707 (IL) b. 31 Aug 1903 d. Sep 1989 lr. 60611 (Chicago, Cook, I
L)
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| Census |
7 JAN 1920 |
Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
- Source:
- 1920 IL Federal Census
Quality: Secondary
Source Text: 1920 Chicago, Cook, Illinois: Roll: T625_319 Page: 7B ED: 628 Image: 00
94
7 January 1920, 1100 Laflin St, dwelling 53, family 78
Merovitz??, Joseph head, owns with mortgage, 47, imm 1883, naturalized 1
892, lit, b Russia of Russian parents speaking Jewish
Ray, wife, 45, imm 1883, naturalized 1891, lit, b Russia of Russian par
ents speaking Jewish
Josette?, dau, 19, single, lit, b IL
Bessie, dau, 17, single, lit, b IL
Harold, son, 16, in school, lit, b IL
Abe, son, 15, in school, lit, b IL
Sidney, son, 9, in school, lit, b IL
|
| Interment |
29 SEP 1989 |
|
| Obituary |
28 SEP 1989 |
Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
- Source:
- Chicago Tribune Historical Archive
Page: Record Number: 19890928OB8901170674
Quality: Secondary
Source Text: HAROLD MAROVITZ, RETIRED ATTORNEY, BOXING JUDGE
By Jerry Thornton
Services for Harold Marovitz, 86, a retired attorney and former boxing j
udge, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in the chapel at 5206 N. Broadway.
Mr. Marovitz died Tuesday in his North Side home. He retired from law p
ractice last year.
He was a lawyer for 63 years and was a founding partner of the Loop law f
irm of Marovitz & Marovitz, which he began with his brother, Abraham Li
ncoln Marovitz, now a senior U.S. District Court judge. Their younger b
rother, Sydney, who died in April, later became a partner.
`TMHe was really the best all-around lawyer between the three of us,`TM J
udge Marovitz said. `TMHe was the bookman. He did all our brief work and k
ept us abreast of the changing laws.
`TMHe was highly ethical and a great influence on my life and my brother
`s. He was the dean. We were three brothers, but the best part of it wa
s we were three friends.`TM
Mr. Marovitz was a member of the American Bar Association, Illinois Sta
te Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association, where he was on the b
oard of managers and active in committee work.
A lifelong Chicago resident, he garduated from Kent Law School in 1925.
`TMAside from being a lawyer, he was very active with the state boxing c
ommission during the heydays of boxing,`TM said his son, James, a Deerfi
eld village trustee.
`TMHe was a man of great integrity,`TM his son said. `TMHe was known to be v
ery honest and straightforward. You always knew where you stood with hi
m.`TM
A senior boxing judge for the Illinois State Athletic Commission, Mr. M
arovitz judged prizefights from 1933 to 1983. He was ranked one of the t
op five judges in the country in 1954 by Ring Magazine.
Mr. Marovitz was never a boxer himself, but he once escaped being cited f
or contempt of court in 1936 after he and a fellow attorney got into a f
istfight, according to a newspaper account of the incident.
`TMHe was a pretty temperamental guy,`TM said Judge Marovitz, who was a a
mateur boxer himself. `TMWe came out of the Maxwell Street area where so
meone could question your judgment, but not your integrity, because our f
ather always told us not to be afraid to stand up for what we believed i
n.`TM
Along with his fondness for boxing, Mr. Marovitz also was an avid bowle
r and once bowled a 299 game, his brother said.
Survivors also include his wife, Gertrude, and another son, Sanford, ch
airman of the English Department at Kent State University in Ohio.
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| Attribute |
Details |
| Residence |
1100 Laflin St
- Source:
- 1920 IL Federal Census
Quality: Secondary
Source Text: 1920 Chicago, Cook, Illinois: Roll: T625_319 Page: 7B ED: 628 Image: 00
94
7 January 1920, 1100 Laflin St, dwelling 53, family 78
Merovitz??, Joseph head, owns with mortgage, 47, imm 1883, naturalized 1
892, lit, b Russia of Russian parents speaking Jewish
Ray, wife, 45, imm 1883, naturalized 1891, lit, b Russia of Russian par
ents speaking Jewish
Josette?, dau, 19, single, lit, b IL
Bessie, dau, 17, single, lit, b IL
Harold, son, 16, in school, lit, b IL
Abe, son, 15, in school, lit, b IL
Sidney, son, 9, in school, lit, b IL
|
| Occupation |
lawyer
- Notes:
-
Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory (Sk Pub Lib Ref 923 M1969, 2 vol)
Born 1903 JD 1925 partner in Marovitz, Powell & Pizer Nathan Powell,
born 1911, law 1934 Edwin Pizer, born 1912, law 1935
|
| Occupation |
senior boxing judge for the Illinois State Athletic Commission
|
| Soc. Sec. No. |
335-34-9707 (IL)
- Source:
- Social Security Death Index
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