It is named for Bernard Seligman. who came to New Mexico in 1850. His son. Arthur. was governor of the State from 1930 to 1933. Youll be within reach of many other places named for Jews if you vacation in the Ohio and Mississippi valley States. On the Mesabi Range iron ore country in Minnesota youll run into the St. Louis County village of Sax. founded by Solomon Sax. a Lithuanian immigrant who opened that area to settlement in 1893. Just north of Madison. Wis.. is the oddlynamed town of Slinger. which is a contraction of Schlesingerville. founded in the 1840s by Solomon Weil Schlesinger.
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