I have someone who was born in 1890 in Chicago to a German-immigrant family. His father was a druggist, a salesman, etc. I don't think they were wealthly. However, he became a newspaper editor/writer and apparently had money, lots of it. He was supposedly involved with the Al Capone era, involved with gangsters but never a gangster himself. I find him on the 1930 census, married to his second wife and has a child. Somewhere around 1932 he moves to Miami Beach, FL where he dies in 1962. I have his death certificate which has very little information on it - except to say that he was born in Chicago and was a newspaper editor/writer. It's possible that he moved to Miami Beach to be involved in gangster-related activities. When did the Al Capone era end in Chicago? Would there have been any gangster-related reason for his leaving Chicago for Florida? I'm trying to reconstruct this man's life. It's interesting. He wasn't a nice man to his children. Thanks, Annie