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The brothers own lives and future careers would be influenced by their own family.  Their mother was Miene "Minnie" Schönberg, who was born on November 9, 1864 in Dornum, East Frisia in what is now Germany.  A younger brother - Abraham Elieser Adolf - was born a few years later; he would later become known as comedian and talent agent Al Shean.  Their parents, father Levy a ventriloquist and mother Fanny a harpist, would emigrate to the United States in 1880, settling in New York City, and it was there at the age of 20 that Minnie met and married a tailor named Samuel Marx, an immigrant from Mertzwiller, Alsace, France who was born October 23, 1859.<ref>http://judaisme.sdv.fr/perso/marxbr/geneal.htm</ref>  The couple would reside with her parents on East 85th Street, in what was then the Yorkville section of the Upper East Side, an area made up of poor Italians, Germans, and Irish.

The brothers own lives and future careers would be influenced by their own family.  Their mother was Miene "Minnie" Schönberg, who was born on November 9, 1864 in Dornum, East Frisia in what is now Germany.  A younger brother - Abraham Elieser Adolf - was born a few years later; he would later become known as comedian and talent agent Al Shean.  Their parents, father Levy a ventriloquist and mother Fanny a harpist, would emigrate to the United States in 1880, settling in New York City, and it was there at the age of 20 that Minnie met and married a tailor named Samuel Marx, an immigrant from Mertzwiller, Alsace, France who was born October 23, 1859.<ref>http://judaisme.sdv.fr/perso/marxbr/geneal.htm</ref>  The couple would reside with her parents on East 85th Street, in what was then the Yorkville section of the Upper East Side, an area made up of poor Italians, Germans, and Irish.

In 1886 Minnie and Sam had their first child, a son they named Manfred.  He did not live out the year, succumbing to tuberculosis (or more probably influenza) at the age of seven months on 17 July 1886.<ref>http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12415029</ref>  Five other sons would be born in the ensuing years:

In 1886 Minnie and Sam had their first child, a son they named Manfred.  He did not live out the year, succumbing to tuberculosis (or more probably influenza) at the age of seven months on 17 July 1886.<ref>https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12415029</ref>  Five other sons would be born in the ensuing years:

*Leonard, March 22, 1887

*Leonard, March 22, 1887

*Adolf, November 23, 1888

*Adolf, November 23, 1888