Hello Annie, What is his name? Have you looked for an obituary in Miami, FL? There might also be some newspaper articles on him between 1930 and when he died in 1962 in Miami. If he was ever in prison, there might be a paper trail there also. Also, if he was an editor for a newspaper, I'd start looking there first. I can only imagine that there would be a pretty substantial obituary for him there. Marianne in CA >>>>> >Message: 2 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:11:50 EST From: Cardi2@aol.com Subject: [COOK-CO-IL] 1920's and 1930's in Chicago To: cook-co-il@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <c81.98797cf.32b8dca6@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" 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