I don't know if this will be of any help to you, but I just found amongst my inlaws' papers a check for three pounds sterling, drawn on Highland Park State Bank in Highland Park, MI to Mrs. Moushguinaz Assarian in Aleppo, Syria. Dated 5 Nov 1919. I was trying to figure out the connection between the check and the Glorian/Kachmanian part of my tree.