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Note: Max was born in Wurtenburg, Germany on February 11, 1812. We first find Max in the US in Philadelphia in 1850 where he living at a hotel and worked as a merchant. In 1860 he was living, perhaps by himself in Deal Island, Maryland where he is listed as a merchant. In 1866, he married Amelia. His wife must have joined him for awhile for their son Samuel was born there in 1868.
Deals Island is in Somerset County on the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland... In the days of the pirates, it is said, so many swashbuckling characters gave the place such a wicked reputation that map makers marked it "Devil's Island."
Max made a brief stop back in Baltimore, because his daughter Rose was born there in 1870. The next stop for Max was Silver Run, Maryland where he was the the postmaster. His daughter Bertie was born there in 1873. Silver Run, Carroll County, Maryland.... In 1729 a number of Germans on their way from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to Virginia, on reaching the rich lands of what is now Carroll, abandoned their long journey and settled on the site of present Silver Run. These first settlers were joined by German settlers between 1730-1740. Again a large migration was made to this section in 1848 when German and Swiss settlers came to section by the way of Annapolis and Baltimore.
We know Max was back in Baltimore in 1874, because, that is where is youngest son Harry. We loose track of Max until 1890 where he was living at 1536 Orleans Street with his son Harry . That same year Max died of cancer at the age of 78 while living at that address. Max lived off and on in Baltimore for nearly 40 years.
Max is buried in the Hebrew Friendship Cemetery, but not in the plot with the rest of the Erlangers. He is buried about 25 yards south of the main Erlanger plot in an area that belonged to the Bikur Cholim Congregation. His name is on the map, but no stone marks his grave. It can be identified as it is the third row in and the third grave on the right. There is an open space at this spot but no stone.
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