Most of the cigarmakers of those days were members of the International Cigarmakers Union. Their president was a guy by the name of Gompers who is well known in Union circles. From what I can determine so far, there was also a cigarmakers union in Germany, at least I know there was one in Hamburg. The two unions may have been allied, at least in part. Their records are hard to find as not all of them were preserved. Those that are, are in collections. These men sometimes moved around a lot. It is not easy to get information from the repositories, and what they do have is incomplete. If you have any records that may tell you from which hall he worked out of, if it still exists, you MAY be able to get information from them. If you put the name of either Gompers or the International Cigarmakers Union into your search engine you should get lots of hits. Good Luck Dorothea On 4/4/2008 4:37:42 AM, Patricia Jaquay ([email protected]) wrote: > All the comments about cigars struck a jumbled cord in my brain. If I > remember right, Clay, New York, was once known as Cigarville due the cigar > making factory and the growing of the tobacco around that area. > > It has been along time since > I've heard that name, and truthfully my memory doesn't always serve me > well. Clay is about 7 miles west of Cicero on Rte. 31 and in Onondaga > County. > > I have no idea about any cigar factory in Oneida. Just the mention > of the industry made me think back. > > Pat J. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYMADISO- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message