Summary
'Educated Ethiopian' held in the Passaic County (Paterson NJ) jail in 1905, said to be a Freemason and Odd Fellow, from a place called 'Mockombar' 144 miles north of Cairo; probably the same itinerant man reported elsewhere under other newspaper spellings (Waltzkowitz, Wolskowicy, Volskovitz, Lescovitz) — identity not resolved here.

Events involving this person

Paterson NJ jail holds Samuel Valskabomann, 'educated Ethiopian', efforts made to secure his release
2 March 1905 (probable)
Samuel Valskabomann
A Paterson, New Jersey newspaper reports that Samuel Valskabomann, described as a 38-year-old 'negro Jew' and 'Educated Ethiopian' born near Cairo at a place called Mockombar, is held in cell 26 of th
Samuel Valskabomann arrives in the United States to write sketches for Purim
before 3 March 1905 (probable)
Samuel Valskabomann
According to the Shepherdstown Register's account of his imprisonment, Samuel Valskabomann — spelled 'Valekabomann' in the same column — 'came to this country to write a number of sketches for the for