Alexander Moshe Lapidos
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Alexander Moshe Lapidos[1] (1815–1906)[2] is known for his authorship of Divrei Emes, a Mussar sefer, published posthumously (Vilna, 1910).[3]
His father, Rabbi Tzvi Lapidos, was a wealthy scholar who arranged that the 13 year old Alexander Moshe, whose in-person high-level interaction with many of the famous rabbis of that era were well known, should marry the only daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Yanova, a suburb of Kovna, Shimon Shushitzky. Over time Yenta and Alexander Moshe Lapidos had three daughters.
After the death of Rabbi Lapidos' first wife, he married a second time. With this wife, Gruna, he had a son and 3 more daughters.
The obituary describing her death at age 36[4] mentioned both the poverty under which they had lived and her unusual involvement in dealing with local Maskilim.
Thirty six years before his death, Rabbi Lapidus married again. His third wife, Mina, was from Mir; her father was Rav Chaim Yehudah Leib Tiktinsky, rav of Mir.[5]