The Gibrans settled in Boston's South End, at the time the second-largest Syrian-Lebanese-American community[17] in the United States. Due to a mistake at school, he was registered as "Kahlil Gibran".[2] His mother began working as a seamstress[3] peddler, selling lace and linens that she carried from door to door. Gibran started school on September 30, 1895.