Pauline Lefevré was also known as Pauline Marx her (maternal aunt's (with whom she lived for a while) married name), and also as Pauline Scheckler (her stepfather's last name).
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There is much debate about who the parents of Pauline were. Her mother may or may not have been Minnie Marx, mother of the legendary Marx brothers.
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On January 18, 1885 Minnie married Samuel Marx (née Simon Marrix), although they later pushed back the date of their marriage to 1884 when they took in her sister Hänne (Hannah)'s illegitimate daughter Pauline, who was born in January of 1885, and began passing her off as their own.
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1930 census has Johanna Scheckler living in Pauline's household as her mother.
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All the above speculation is negated by (a) the 1930 census, (b) that Pauline was born in January 1884, not 1885, and (c) the birth record that shows Pauline was born the legitimate daughter of Max Lefevré and Johanna (under the name Pauline (her older sister's name)), albeit with the last name written as Levender, instead of Lefevré (who knows how the recording clerk heard the name spoken with a German accent).
It is also noted that much of the story regards Pauline's being illegitimate came from her cousin Groucho, who was not exactly known for telling things as they actually were.
"Groucho, who changed a host of names in his autobiography, Groucho and Me, so as not to libel the dead as well as the living, calls Hannah's daughter 'Sally', and claims she was abandoned at birth by Hannah's unnamed first husband, who had taken one look at the babe and fled to Canada.
Groucho's 1979 biographer, Hector Arce, concluded that this tale was apocryphal, and that 'Sally' or Polly — our Pauline — was Aunt Hannah's illegitimate daughter, from a loose liaison that predated Julius Schickler. The archival record, however, now reveals that there was indeed a previous husband, one Max Lefevre, a grocer, whom Hannah married in 1881."
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There is much debate about who the parents of Pauline were. Her mother may or may not have been Minnie Marx, mother of the legendary Marx brothers.
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On January 18, 1885 Minnie married Samuel Marx (née Simon Marrix), although they later pushed back the date of their marriage to 1884 when they took in her sister Hänne (Hannah)'s illegitimate daughter Pauline, who was born in January of 1885, and began passing her off as their own.
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1930 census has Johanna Scheckler living in Pauline's household as her mother.
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All the above speculation is negated by (a) the 1930 census, (b) that Pauline was born in January 1884, not 1885, and (c) the birth record that shows Pauline was born the legitimate daughter of Max Lefevré and Johanna (under the name Pauline (her older sister's name)), albeit with the last name written as Levender, instead of Lefevré (who knows how the recording clerk heard the name spoken with a German accent).
It is also noted that much of the story regards Pauline's being illegitimate came from her cousin Groucho, who was not exactly known for telling things as they actually were.
"Groucho, who changed a host of names in his autobiography, Groucho and Me, so as not to libel the dead as well as the living, calls Hannah's daughter 'Sally', and claims she was abandoned at birth by Hannah's unnamed first husband, who had taken one look at the babe and fled to Canada.
Groucho's 1979 biographer, Hector Arce, concluded that this tale was apocryphal, and that 'Sally' or Polly — our Pauline — was Aunt Hannah's illegitimate daughter, from a loose liaison that predated Julius Schickler. The archival record, however, now reveals that there was indeed a previous husband, one Max Lefevre, a grocer, whom Hannah married in 1881."
Pauline Lefevré was also known as Pauline Marx her (maternal aunt's (with whom she lived for a while) married name), and also as Pauline Scheckler (her stepfather's last name).
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There is much debate about who the parents of Pauline were. Her mother may or may not have been Minnie Marx, mother of the legendary Marx brothers.
~
On January 18, 1885 Minnie married Samuel Marx (née Simon Marrix), although they later pushed back the date of their marriage to 1884 when they took in her sister Hänne (Hannah)'s illegitimate daughter Pauline, who was born in January of 1885, and began passing her off as their own.
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1930 census has Johanna Scheckler living in Pauline's household as her mother.
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All the above speculation is negated by (a) the 1930 census, (b) that Pauline was born in January 1884, not 1885, and (c) the birth record that shows Pauline was born the legitimate daughter of Max Lefevré and Johanna (under the name Pauline (her older sister's name)), albeit with the last name written as Levender, instead of Lefevré (who knows how the recording clerk heard the name spoken with a German accent).
It is also noted that much of the story regards Pauline's being illegitimate came from her cousin Groucho, who was not exactly known for telling things as they actually were.
"Groucho, who changed a host of names in his autobiography, Groucho and Me, so as not to libel the dead as well as the living, calls Hannah's daughter 'Sally', and claims she was abandoned at birth by Hannah's unnamed first husband, who had taken one look at the babe and fled to Canada.
Groucho's 1979 biographer, Hector Arce, concluded that this tale was apocryphal, and that 'Sally' or Polly — our Pauline — was Aunt Hannah's illegitimate daughter, from a loose liaison that predated Julius Schickler. The archival record, however, now reveals that there was indeed a previous husband, one Max Lefevre, a grocer, whom Hannah married in 1881."
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There is much debate about who the parents of Pauline were. Her mother may or may not have been Minnie Marx, mother of the legendary Marx brothers.
~
On January 18, 1885 Minnie married Samuel Marx (née Simon Marrix), although they later pushed back the date of their marriage to 1884 when they took in her sister Hänne (Hannah)'s illegitimate daughter Pauline, who was born in January of 1885, and began passing her off as their own.
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1930 census has Johanna Scheckler living in Pauline's household as her mother.
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All the above speculation is negated by (a) the 1930 census, (b) that Pauline was born in January 1884, not 1885, and (c) the birth record that shows Pauline was born the legitimate daughter of Max Lefevré and Johanna (under the name Pauline (her older sister's name)), albeit with the last name written as Levender, instead of Lefevré (who knows how the recording clerk heard the name spoken with a German accent).
It is also noted that much of the story regards Pauline's being illegitimate came from her cousin Groucho, who was not exactly known for telling things as they actually were.
"Groucho, who changed a host of names in his autobiography, Groucho and Me, so as not to libel the dead as well as the living, calls Hannah's daughter 'Sally', and claims she was abandoned at birth by Hannah's unnamed first husband, who had taken one look at the babe and fled to Canada.
Groucho's 1979 biographer, Hector Arce, concluded that this tale was apocryphal, and that 'Sally' or Polly — our Pauline — was Aunt Hannah's illegitimate daughter, from a loose liaison that predated Julius Schickler. The archival record, however, now reveals that there was indeed a previous husband, one Max Lefevre, a grocer, whom Hannah married in 1881."
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