Places

events

• 1925 The Daily News of New York runs the headline 'HUNT MISSING BOYS' — 1,000 DeWitt Clinton High School students plus 'every policeman in the city' are deployed to locate the missing Jeannopoulos brothers from their home at 130 W 26th St. (The paper names them as 'John, 15, and his brother Peter' — 'Peter' almost certainly Takis/Panagiotis.)
• 1928 Lazaros Jeannopoulos naturalized in New York City. His minor children — including Constantine at 12 — become US citizens automatically.
• 1937 Lazaros Jeannopoulos files a sworn affidavit in NYC — less than two years before his death.
• 1943 Peter Jeannopoulos born in New York City — Constantine and Sophie's first child.
• 1947 Sophie Jeannopoulos naturalized in NYC — Certificate No. 6705767, issued in her married name.
• 1960 Marie Jeannopoulos born in New York City, seventeen years after Peter — Constantine and Sophie's third child.

documents

document 1925-04-21

ATLANTIS Greek-American newspaper — "The Double-Dealing of Venizelos in the Asia Minor Campaign"

document 1925-10-11

Daily News — 'HUNT MISSING BOYS' (DeWitt Clinton High School)

document 1925-10-23

Greek Consulate General of New York — Certificate of Indigence and Identity for Lazaros

document 1926

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — NYC City Directory (Summer 1926)

letter 1926-10-23

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — handwritten letter draft from New York

birth cert 1931-08-28

Archimandrite Kontogeorgos — John Lazare birth certificate (Soma 1911, certified NYC 1931)

document 1933-12

"The Truth" Greek bi-weekly newspaper — clergy signatures page (NYC, December 1933)

document 1935-08

ALETHEIA newspaper — Lazaros as Director, Saint George Philadelphia closure

document 1937-11-29

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — Sworn Affidavit

document 1940

Takis Jeannopoulos — WWII Draft Registration (NYC, 1940)

document 1941

Achilles Jeannopoulos — WWII Draft Registration (NYC, 1941)

events

• 1924 Lazaros Jeannopoulos files his Declaration of Intention in New York — the first formal step of naturalization.
• 1925 An opportunist sends Lazaros Jeannopoulos and Eftyhia a ransom note demanding payment for the boys' return — a piece of the runaway-year correspondence the family kept.
• 1925 A 'Panagiotis Jeannopoulos' arrives in New York on the SS Byron — Takis Jeannopoulos returning from the runaway-to-Greece (Takis's birth name is Panagiotis Lazare).
• 1925 The Greek Consulate of New York issues identification certificate No. 3640 to Takis Jeannopoulos and John Jeannopoulos in the wake of their forged-passport return, plus a separate family card.
• 1927 Rhea Econom born in New York — the family's first US-born child.
• 1933 Takis Jeannopoulos arrives in New York on the SS Bremen — manifested US settlement after the runaway-return.
• 1938 Mary Jeannopoulos arrives in New York on the SS Normandie.
• 1941 Constantine Jeannopoulos arrives in New York on the SS Excalibur from Lisbon. He takes up a post at Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital.
• 1942 Sophie Jeannopoulos arrives in New York on the SS Serpa Pinto from Lisbon, last residence Évian-les-Bains. She rejoins Constantine.
• 1942 Constantine Jeannopoulos is granted NY State medical license No. 041039.
• 1951 Ines Jeannopoulos and her infant daughter Mya Durso arrive in New York on the SS Constitution from Cannes — John Jeannopoulos's family makes the Tunisia-to-US crossing.
• 1953 John Jeannopoulos born — Constantine and Sophie's second child, the future attorney.
• 1969 Columbia Record / VA Hospital listing places Constantine Jeannopoulos in orthopedics — finally resolving the longstanding question about his surgical specialty.

documents

document ~1924

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — handwritten curriculum vitae (education + medical training)

naturalization 1924-04-23

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — Declaration of Intention (Naturalization)

document 1942-11-16

Constantine Jeannopoulos — NY State Medical License No. 041039

document 1960-06-22

Sophie Jeannopoulos — Biographical Data (Joint Medical Authority, 1960)

document 1969

Constantine Jeannopoulos — Columbia Record (1969 listing)

document 1969-04-24

Constantine Jeannopoulos — Columbia Record / VA Hospital Orthopedics

events

• 1924 Eftyhia Jeannopoulos and the children arrive in New York on the SS Themistocles. Eftyhia is recorded as 'Eftimia' on the inspection cards; John Jeannopoulos is card #18 under the Greek name 'Ioannis'.

documents

immigration 1924-03-18

Jeannopoulos family — SS Themistocles Inspection Cards (Eftimia + Ioannis)

immigration 1925

Panagiotis Jeannopoulos — SS Byron Arrival 1925 (FamilySearch Summary)

immigration 1930

John Jeannopoulos (b. 1899) — SS Saturnia Arrival 1930

immigration 1933-07-26

Takis Jeannopoulos — SS Bremen Third-Class Arrival Manifest

document 1936

Research clue — 1936 NY arrival, friend "J. Jeannopoulos" of 24 rue Tournefort, Paris

immigration 1938

Mary Jeannopoulos — SS Normandie Arrival Manifest

immigration 1941-08-25

Constantine Jeannopoulos — SS Excalibur Arrival Manifest

immigration 1942-06-05

Sophie Jeannopoulos — SS Serpa Pinto Arrival Manifest

immigration 1951-11-30

Ines Valda & Eftichia Jeannopoulos — SS Constitution Arrival Manifest

documents

letter 1931-06-25

Greek Archdiocese — response to Saint Constantine Bronx trustees on parish boundaries

letter 1932-01-29

Greek Archdiocese — Bronx parish merger attempt (January 1932)

letter 1932-06-16

Greek Archdiocese — Bronx parish matter referred to Mixed Council

letter 1932-07-15

Greek Archdiocese — appointment of Father Michael Andreadis to Saints Constantine and Helen Bronx

letter 1932-12-29

Greek Archdiocese — temporary priest after Father Andreadis's departure

letter 1933-08-22

Greek Archdiocese of N&S America — letter to "Saint Constantine" Bronx parish on press strategy

events

• 1950 The 1950 US Census records Constantine Jeannopoulos, Sophie Jeannopoulos, and seven-year-old Peter Jeannopoulos as a household in the Bronx.

documents

census 1930

Achilles Jeannopoulos — 1930 Census (Bronx, FamilySearch Summary)

census 1930

Rhea Jeannopoulos — 1930 Census (Bronx, FamilySearch Summary)

document 1932-10-24

Saints Constantine and Helen Bronx parish — General Assembly minutes (building acquisition)

census 1950

Jeannopoulos household — 1950 US Census (Bronx)

census 1950

Sophie Jeannopoulos — 1950 Census (FamilySearch Summary)

events

• 1977 Sophie Jeannopoulos settles permanently in Santo Domingo. Constantine joins her in the following years.
• 1980 Constantine Jeannopoulos dies in Santo Domingo, age 64. Chronic renal failure; certifying physician Dr. Vinicio Calventi, later Vice President of the Dominican Republic.
• 2005 Sophie Jeannopoulos dies in Santo Domingo, age 83, of an aneurism — at the home of her daughter Penny.

documents

death cert 1980-11-08

Constantine Jeannopoulos — Acta de Defunción No. 31759

events

• 1939 Lazaros Jeannopoulos dies in Manhattan, age 68.

documents

death cert 1939-06-28

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — NYC Death Certificate No. 14380

death cert 1939-06-28

Lazaros Jeannopoulos — NYC Municipal Death Record

marriage 1968

Peter Jeannopoulos & Mireille Lebrun — NYC Marriage Record

documents

document 1923-05

Takis Jeannopoulos — refugee-year school notebook (Mytilene 1922-1923)

letter 1925-12-10

Mytilene attorney Chondronikis — Pergamon Assessment Committee circular to "the Pergamenes in America"

birth cert 1937-08-24

Metropolitan of Mytilene Iakovos — Constantine baptismal re-certification (Protocol 1575)

letter 1937-08-28

Mytilene law-office letter — procurement of Constantine's Greek certificates

events

• 1878 Josef Jakowski born in Poland — Sophie's father, the Warsaw obstetrician.
• 1890 Maria Jakowska born in Poland — Sophie's mother.
• 1959 Maria Jakowska dies in Poland just before her planned emigration to America — the last close relative on Sophie's Polish side.

documents

events

• 1911 John Jeannopoulos born in Soma. (Eftyhia later falsified records to 1913 to keep him a younger age.)
• 1911 Takis Jeannopoulos born in Soma.

events

• 1871 Lazaros Jeannopoulos born in Anatolia.

documents

document 1924-03-12

Vryoula Refugees Association + Protosynkellos of Ephesus — declaration on Lazaros

document 1924-03-13

Smyrna Metropolitanate (Locum Tenens, in exile) — testimonial to Lazaros

letter 1978-07-31

Athens Association of Pergamenes "Attalos" — Monument of the Martyrs of Pergamon (Circular No. 2)

events

• 1952 Eight-year-old Peter Jeannopoulos appears in a Bronx Zoo photograph that runs in regional dailies across the country (Richmond Times-Dispatch Apr 27, Des Moines Tribune May 1).

documents

photo 1952-04-27

Peter Jeannopoulos at the Bronx Zoo (Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 1952)

photo 1952-05-01

Peter Jeannopoulos at the Bronx Zoo (Des Moines Tribune, May 1952)

events

• 1943 Constantine Jeannopoulos is accepted into the US Army Medical Corps — his wartime service track begins.

documents

foia

Sophie Jeannopoulos — FBI FOIA File NY140-18428

document 1943-09-02

Constantine Jeannopoulos — Army Medical Corps Acceptance Card (INS)

events

• 1925 Lazaros Jeannopoulos obtains a US reentry certificate in Havana, Cuba — the late-1925 leg of the year's complicated travel for the family.

documents

immigration 1925-10

Havana — US Reentry Certificate (October 1925)

documents

document 1925-10-23

NYC Greek Consulate ID Certificate No. 3640

document 1925-10-23

NYC Greek Consulate ID Certificate (v2, family card)

documents

letter 1928-06-30

A.G. Sofianos to Lazaros — Eftyhia's compensation payout (first Sofianos letter)

letter 1928-09-18

A.G. Sofianos to Lazaros — Karamitrou compensation finances and family news

events

• 1920 Achilles Jeannopoulos born in Smyrna.

events

• 1922 Lazaros Jeannopoulos and family are issued laissez-passer No. 5412 from Soma — the document that gets them out of Anatolia three weeks after the Smyrna fire.

documents

passport ~1920

Jeannopoulos family — Laissez-passer from Soma

events

• 2002 Mya Durso dies on Staten Island — eldest of John Lazare and Ines Valda's three daughters, predeceasing both parents by two years.

documents

obituary 2002-03-30

Mya (Eftichia) Durso — Obituary

documents

document 1925-10-02

Assessment Committee of Soma — Lazaros's lost-property itemization (Diocese of Ephesus)

letter 1927-07-04

Soma Refugees Association of Thessaloniki — thanks to Lazaros for NYC fundraising

events

• 1922 Sophie Jeannopoulos born in Warsaw.

documents

letter 1933-08-29

Father John Aslanides (Brockton, MA) — Aletheia subscription complaint

documents

document 1974

Research clue — Peter G. Jeannopoulos, MA thesis at EKKE (1974)

documents

document ~1924

Eftyhia Yannopoulou — refugee registration declaration (Soma + Pergamos property)

events

• 1968 Serge Lebrun emigrates to the United States from Haiti, eventually working at Mellon Bank in Manhattan until retirement.

events

• 1971 Serge Lebrun and Marie Therese Chassaing buy a house at 34-38 92nd Street, Jackson Heights, jointly with Mireille and Peter — the Lebrun-Jeannopoulos household.

documents

events

• 1943 Josef Jakowski is killed at the Majdanek concentration camp for trying to help Jewish people during the German occupation of Poland. (Year approximate within the WWII window.)

documents

immigration 1941-08-15

Constantine Jeannopoulos — SS Excalibur Passenger Souvenir List

documents

document 1940

John Lazare Jeannopoulos — WWII Draft Registration (Minnesota, 1940)

events

• 1916 Constantine Jeannopoulos born in Mytilene / Smyrna.

documents

passport 1923

Lazaros family — Mytilene passport-control stamps (1923–1924)

documents

document ~1925-1926

Handwritten open letter to General Th. Pangalos, President of the Greek Government

documents

document

Constantine Jeannopoulos — Università di Perugia Foreigners' Enrollment Card

events

• 1968 Peter Jeannopoulos and Mireille Jeannopoulos marry in Queens — the Jeannopoulos and Lebrun lines join.

events

• 1941 Constantine Jeannopoulos and Sophie Jeannopoulos marry in Rome, on the eve of his crossing. They met as students at the University of Rome.

documents

letter 1923-12-26

Handwritten letter from Soma (December 1923)

events

• 1923 A handwritten letter is sent from Soma to the family on their refuge year in Mytilene — one of the few surviving Anatolian-era pieces of correspondence.

events

• 1948 John Jeannopoulos and Ines Jeannopoulos run a regional field hospital together in Sousse, Tunisia — North Africa, 1948–1951. Their daughter Mya (baptized Eftichia) is born in Tunis around 1949–50.