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This continued until World War II when the Solingen factory was destroyed and "Boker USA" took control of the trademark until the German factory was rebuilt in the 1950s. In the 1960s and 1970s the company changed hands several times, with the US facility (Hermann Boker & Co) shutting down in 1983.
Boker was born in Philadelphia.His father was Charles S. Boker, a wealthy banker, whose financial expertise weathered the Girard National Bank through the panic years of 1838–40, and whose honour, impugned after his 1857 death, was defended many years later by his son in "The Book of the Dead."
George Henry Boker (1823-1890), an American poet, playwright, and diplomat; John G. Boker, creator of Boker’s Bitters (1828) John Robert Boker, Jr. (1913-2003), an award-winning philatelist; Nava Boker (1970), an Israeli politician and journalist; Zeev Boker, an Israeli Ambassador
Boker's Bitters was a brand of bitters manufactured by the L. J. Funke Company of New York City. [1] The ingredient is specified in nearly every cocktail that called for bitters in Jerry Thomas' 1862 book, How to Mix Drinks or The Bon Vivant's Companion. Among the ingredients were quassia, cardamom, and bitter orange peel. [citation needed]
Sde Boker (Hebrew: שְׂדֵה בּוֹקֵר, lit. 'Herding Field') is a kibbutz in the Negev desert of southern Israel . Best known as the retirement home of Israel's first Prime Minister , David Ben-Gurion , it falls under the jurisdiction of Ramat HaNegev Regional Council .
Zeev Boker is the current ambassador of Israel to Malta [1] as well as Israel's ambassador to Slovenia. [2] He previously served as the counsel general of Israel to New England from October 2018 [ 3 ] to March 2020. [ 4 ]
John Robert Boker Jr. (January 29, 1913 – April 12, 2003) was an American philatelist who amassed some of the most prestigious collections of 19th century stamps ever seen by stamp collectors. Before his death in 2003, the Collectors Club of New York declared him, in 1996, to be the "outstanding philatelist of the last half of the twentieth ...
Knickerbocker Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line), a New York City subway station Knickerbocker Field Club, a tennis clubhouse in Flatbush, Brooklyn; Knickerbocker and Arnink Garages, two stone buildings on Hudson Avenue in Albany, New York