First listed in the 1905 New York state census in Manhattan, as a butcher (44 RUS) with his family who have been in the US 2 yrs. Wife Dora (42, RUS) and Philip (19, RUS), Sadie (12, RUS), Joseph (9, RUS), Morris (7, RUS).
David is listed in the 1910 Mahattan census as proprietor of a Butcher store (48, RUS) having been married 22 years, with 5 of their 9 chlldren surviving, and having immigrated in 1904. His family consisted of wife Dora (45, RUS), Philip (21, RUS), Sadie (17, RUS), George (14, RUS), Morris (12, RUS) and Annie (2, NY).
He was living in the Bronx in 1920 as a butcher (59, RUS) with wife Dora (54, RUS) having immigrated in 1907 and not naturalized, with son George (24, RUS), daughter Helen (12, NY), and son Murray (22, RUS) with his wife Merium (19, RUS).
Listed in the 1930 census one page before his brother Jacob in Lebanon, CT, as a farmer (69, POL) having immigrated in 1894 and first married at age 26, with his wife Dora (66, POL) who immigrated in 1895. With them is son George (34, NY) a country club manager, with his wife Beatrice (29, NY) and children Irving H. (9, NY) and Howard F. (4yr 3mos, NY) plus a couple servants.