Résumé

Engineer, Hessler, Taylor and Company, Seattle, WA, 1928. Hessler, Taylor and Company was a cost and production engineering firm, with an office in Room #6649 of the White-Henry-Stuart Building. The business was run by H.E. Hessler and S.G. Taylor. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1928, p. 832.)

Mechanical Engineer, US Navy Yard, Seattle, WA, 1940. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1940; Census Place: Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: m-t0627-04376; Page: 61B; Enumeration District: 40-69, accessed 11/07/2023.)

Founding Partner, James B. Notkin and Associates, Mechanical Engineer, Seattle, WA, 1951-1966. Notkin may have opened an engineering consultancy by 1950. The 1950 US Census listed his occupation as "consultant-professional own business, mechanical engineering & engineering concern." He may have incorporated officially in 1951. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: 826; Page: 19; Enumeration District: 40-166, accessed 11/07/2023.)

College

The 1940 US Census indicated that Notkin had completed four years of college coursework. His wife, Natalie, had completed five. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1940; Census Place: Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: m-t0627-04376; Page: 61B; Enumeration District: 40-69, accessed 11/07/2023.)

Relocation

James Benjamin Notkin was born in Samara, Russia, on 11/27/1898. Notkin lived in Seattle by 1922 and was naturalized a US citizen on 11/26/1927 in Seattle, WA. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives and Records Administration (Nara); Washington, D.C.; Naturalization Records of the U.s. District Court For the Western District of Washington, 1890-1957; Microfilm Roll: 79; Microfilm Serial: M1542, accessed 11/07/2023.)

Notkin and his wife Natalie resided in the Weir Apartments, 1307 East 41st Street, Apartment #K in Seattle in 03/1928. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives and Records Administration (Nara); Washington, D.C.; Naturalization Records of the U.s. District Court For the Western District of Washington, 1890-1957; Microfilm Roll: 79; Microfilm Serial: M1542, accessed 11/07/2023.)

In 1940, James and Natalie Notkin lived at 2013 East 63rd Street in Seattle. They had a Russian-born boarder living with them, Natalie Lvova (born c. 1899 in Russia). She lived in Harbin, Manchuria (under Japanese occupation at the time as "Manchukuo,") in 1935. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1940; Census Place: Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: m-t0627-04376; Page: 61B; Enumeration District: 40-69, accessed 11/07/2023.) He and his wife continued to live at this same address in 1950. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: 826; Page: 19; Enumeration District: 40-166, accessed 11/07/2023.)

Spouse

He wed Natalie Brodskaya (born 01/20/1900 in Kherson, Ukraine, Russia-d. 08/06/1970 in Seattle, WA) on 03/07/1922 in Seattle, WA. She came to the US aboard the Kashima Maru sailing from Yokohama, Japan, to Seattle, between 07/30/1921 and 08/13/1921.

In 1928, she worked as an assistant librarian at the Seattle Public Library. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives and Records Administration (Nara); Washington, D.C.; Naturalization Records of the U.s. District Court For the Western District of Washington, 1890-1957; Microfilm Roll: 79; Microfilm Serial: M1542, accessed 11/07/2023.)

Natalie Notkin worked as a librarian at a Seattle university in 1940. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1940; Census Place: Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: m-t0627-04376; Page: 61B; Enumeration District: 40-69, accessed 11/07/2023.)