Hey everyone! I figured I'd take my first shot at a TL after lurking for ages. All criticisms welcome!
After selling all their worldly belongings, taking handouts from family friends, and engaging in petty crime, the married couple who would come to be known as Benjamin and Catherine Douglas purchased their tickets to a better future in America for their third child. Catherine being well into her pregnancy, she convinced her husband that America promised more than the chaos of the Russian Empire. A few months after their arrival in Manhattan, on 18 December 1878, a child named Iosef would be born, a child that would change the destiny of America and the larger world for years to come.