Personal
In 1874, 43-year-old Moses met 17-year-old Pauline Reich, and they married within the year. In 1876, their first child, a son named Alexander, was born in New York. They would eventually have eleven more children. Soon after the birth of his first son, he moved his young family back to Ottawa where he started his business. Moses would spend most of the rest of his life in Ottawa, except for a period when he and his family lived in Mattawa (1882 to 1885) and Montreal (1885 to 1891).
One of his daughters, Lillian Freiman (1885–1940), followed in her father’s involvement in philanthropy. She served as head of the Canadian branch of WIZO and was recognized for her services for war veterans when she was awarded with the Order of the British Empire.
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