A._M._Rothschild

Abram M. Rothschild

Abram M. Rothschild

American businessman (1853–1902)

Abram M. Rothschild or A.M. Rothschild (1853 – July 28, 1902) was an American businessman who founded the A.M. Rothschild Company.[1][2]

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Biography

Abram M. Rothschild was born to a Jewish family in 1853 in Nordstetten (today a district of Horb am Neckar), Kingdom of Württemberg, the youngest child in a family of thirteen.[1][3] In 1856, he immigrated to Davenport, Iowa where he joined his brother, Emmanuel, who had founded a retail store.[1] The store was renamed to E. Rothschild and Bro.[1] After the Great Chicago Fire, the brothers established a branch operation on the near west side of Chicago which soon morphed it into a clothing manufacturing operation.[1] In 1881, they liquidated their retail operations and went solely into clothing manufacturing with their company, the Palace Clothing Company; Abram served as president and built production facilities in a number of cities.[1] He served as a director of the Columbian Exposition and Vice President of the National Bank of the Republic.[1] In 1895, he built a retail store under his name, A.M. Rothschild Company, with his father-in-law Nelson Morris and his brother-in-laws Edward Morris and Ira Nelson Morris as silent partners.[1] It became one of the largest retail stores in Chicago.[4]

Personal life

In 1882,[2] he married Augusta Morris, daughter of Nelson Morris, the founder of the Chicago meatpacking company Morris & Company;[5] they had one child, Melville Nelson Rothschild.[2] Rothschild committed suicide by revolver on July 28, 1902, in Chicago.[6][7] After his death, his wife married his cousin, Maurice L. Rothschild.[8][9][10]

References

  1. [1]
    "Abram M Rothschild". Chicago Tribune. June 23, 1901. p. 43. Retrieved November 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. [2]
    The World's Columbian Exposition Illustrated: February 1891 to February 1892. 1892. p. 11.
  3. [3]
    "100 years of Chicago Jewry" (PDF). The Sentinel. August 1948.
  4. [4]
    "DePaul Center Goldblatt Bros. & A.M. Rothschild & Co. - Department Store Building". chicago.designslinger. March 5, 2015.
  5. [5]
    Roth, Nelson (Spring 2008). "Nelson Morris and "The Yards"" (PDF). Chicago Jewish Historical Society.
  6. [6]
    "A. M. Rothschild, Successful Chicago Merchant, Commits Suicide While Despondent". Woodford County Journal. Chicago. July 31, 1902. p. 6. Retrieved November 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. [7]
    "A.M. Rothschild Takes His Life". Chicago Tribune. July 29, 1902. p. 1. Retrieved November 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. [8]
    "Mrs. M.L. Rothschild Dies". The Reform Advocate, America's Jewish Journal, Volume 64. December 23, 1922.
  9. [9]
    "Maurice Rothschild, Chicago Merchant; Philanthropist Established His First Store at Seneca, Kansas". The New York Times. April 24, 1941. p. 21.
  10. [10]
    "Maurice L. Rothschild & Co. Building". Chicago Design Slinger. February 22, 2015.
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