Career
He was elected the Mayor of Paterson, New Jersey on April 9, 1883. He was one of the original founders of the Miriam Barnert Hebrew Free School and the Barnert Memorial Hospital and the Barnert Memorial Temple. He was born on September 20, 1838 in Posen and emigrated in 1849.
He was elected the Mayor of Paterson, New Jersey on April 9, 1883.
He founded now-closed Barnert Hospital in Paterson, New Jersey in 1908. That same year he filed suit to have the Barnert Memorial Temple returned to his control.
He created the Daughters Of Miriam Home Foreign The Aged And Orphans in 1921. He died on December 23, 1927 of pneumonia.
His statue stands outside of the Carrere & Hastings designed Paterson City Hall, along Garret Hobart and Andrew McBride.