Mordecai Solski was a timber merchant. Apparently, his family remained in the timber business throughout the Russian Revolution and World War I. His son, Joseph Leib (J.L.) Saul finally became a US citizen in 1920 and shorly thereafter requested help from the US State Department with the brand new Lithuanian government.
The first three documents show J.L. Saul's naturalization process.
In September of 1922, J.L. Saul began filing documents with the Secretary of State in Washington, D.C. requesting assistance with reimbursement for timber he owned in Lithuania.
The following documents describe J.L. Saul’s purchase of timber rights on July 10, 1914 from Ivan Donitrievitch Nakasny and his efforts to stop the Lithuanian government from cutting the timber in 1922. His brother-in-law, Chaim Elias Brauer, was managing the businesses in Lithuania.
The following documents have been archived as Record Group 59, General Records of the Department of State and are available here.
There are eight pages of correspondence beginning with Image 62 and continuing thru Image 69.
This is the only information that I have about these efforts. If you know how this story turned out, please let us know!
