# Wilmington <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Wilmington (English)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>New Castle County, Delaware, United States</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>39°44′N 75°33′W</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Wilmington, Delaware's largest city, sits on the Delaware River near the Pennsylvania border and functioned historically as an industrial and chemical-manufacturing center within the Philadelphia region. Delaware was the last of the original thirteen states to organize a permanent Jewish community: the Moses Montefiore Mutual Aid Society was founded in Wilmington in 1879, when the city held roughly 25 Jewish families. Between 1880 and 1910 the community grew rapidly as East European immigrants arrived, expanding to hundreds of families and reaching nearly 4,000 people by 1929, which makes Wilmington the primary "Wilmington" of Jewish-immigrant genealogical relevance. (A separate Wilmington exists in North Carolina; Delaware is assumed here as the more likely match for this vault—flag if a North Carolina connection is known.) <small>Sources: Jewish Historical Society of Delaware — Over 100 Years of Active Jewish Life in Delaware (jhsdelaware.org); Jewish Virtual Library — Delaware; Wikipedia — Wilmington, Delaware.</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Loretta Cherrin (b.1937)]] | Born 11/22/1937, Died 07/06/2012 | | [[Joan Cherrin (b.1939)]] | Born 09/18/1939, Died 06/08/2013 | | [[Richard Jay Cherrin (b.1940)]] | Born 09/20/1940, Died 02/05/2018 | | [[Gary Cherrin (b.1944)]] | Born 03/27/1944, Died 11/14/2007 | | [[Grace Ann Pollett (b.1944)]] | Born 03/28/1944, Died 05/18/2017 | | [[Samuel E Himber (b.1968)]] | Born 09/25/1968 | | [[Jennie Hochman (b.1901)]] | Died 10/1977 | | [[Murray Marty Ascher (b.1899)]] | Died 1989 |