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There was a an esteemed and widely known public figure, A Russian nobleman named Stachowitz. It is my theory is that during the early twentieth century our family name tended toward that spelling.

The Independent, Volume 54, page 661
Published: January 1902

A Russian Appeal for Religious Liberty

… the Marshal of the nobility in the Government of Orel, Mr. Stachowitz, has not only aroused the whole orthodox Church, but secured international attention.… for the first time a prominent and influential Russian official and layman in a convention consisting of clergymen and ecclesiastics, and assembled purposely to suppress religious dissent, could utter such sentiments on religious liberty and tolerance. ….. He openly declared that it should be the privilege of everybody to decide upon his religious convictions and that everybody should have the privilege of severing his connection with the State Church if he so desired, and the State should not any longer punish such a step. The address has been widely discussed by the Russian press…..

10/24/1903, London: Jack Stochervitch birth

1/13/1907, New York: Stasewich family arrival on the St. Louis from Southampton

8/9/1907 Immigration Hamburg to New York   SS Pennsylvania
Chaim Staschewitz (later Hyman) Estimated Birth Year: abt 1887  Age Year: 20  Residence: & Birth Nowydwor
Occupation: locksmith; Father: Matio [?]Staschewitz, Nowy Dwor; Brother: Isaac 175 Moore, Brooklyn

1/17/1910, New York City: Issy Stochkowitz Birth Certificate

3/19/1910 Boston, MA: Fannie Starshevitz Slotnick Death. She was the sister of Matys Nosan Stasowicz, aunt of Isaac et al.

Note that her father's name was Shepsel

4/21/1910, New York City: Stachowitz family Census

7/26/1910, NYC: Boruch (later, "Ben") Staschewitz arrives.

9/27/1913, New York City: Isaac Stackowitz Declaration of Intention

6/1/1915, New York City Census: Stachowitz

1921 Boston Directory: Benjamin, Isaac and Samuel Stachowitz.

1922 Auburn, Maine, Directory: Stackowitz

August 18, 1922: Massachusetts Death Record: Sarah Stokovitz, wife of Matthew Stokovitz.

May 22, 1926 City of Boston Death Certificate: Mathus Stakofsky

May 22, 1926. Anshi Poland Cemetery Central Street, Woburn, MA: Section: C-10 Grave: 16. photographed by Bill Porteous.
Matisyahu son of Shabtai./ Mathew Stachowitz

July 12, 1928 Paris Birth Jean Robert Waldman to Georges Waldman and Betsy Stochowitz

1937 Ethel Stachowitz Queen Mary manifest

12/5/1941 Boston Jewish Advocate: Ethel & Isaac Stachowitz. Ben and Hyman attended.

6/17/1947, Strafford County NH Probate Court: Stackowitz to Stack

Curiously, in the 1960s or 1970s, per Masonic records, Melvin Slotnick, grandson of Fannie Starshevitz Slotnick, changed his name to Melvin Stack.
Massachusetts, Mason Membership Cards, 1733-1990; Thanks to Eric Gardner for the tip!

1 Shepsl Stasiovich b: c1816
.. +Bayl Nysonovicheva b: c 1831
..... 2 Mathew Mattias Matityahu Nisan HaLevi Stasiovich b: 10/27/1855 in Zakroczym, Poland
.........+Sarah Sura Krajna Krydl Zlotnicka b: 1846 - 1853
..... 2 Fruma Fannie Starshevitz b: Abt. 1873 in Poland d: 19 Mar 1910 in Boston, MA
......... +Jacob Slotnick b: Bet. 1866 - 1868 in Poland d: 04 Jun 1938 in Boston, MA

Mathew/Matityahu was Isaac's & Hyman's and Ben's father. His name appears on their headstones. His sister Fruma/Fannie did come to the US and her (and Mathew/Matityahu's) father's name appears on her death certificate and headstone.