Zeyda Blank listed as age 16 in 1874 on the Revision List.
According to Hal, he was a banker or money lender and a successful businessman with enough money to send his children over on the boat to America. Sarah Altman said that only 3 of the children came to America and that the rest of the family died in the Russian Revolution.
He passed away before Pesach (Passover) in early 1923, after being bedridden and spending a lot of money for his care.