Abram M. Rothschild

Abram M. Rothschild or A.M. Rothschild (1853 – July 29, 1902) was an American businessman who founded the A.M. Rothschild Company.[1][2]

Abram M. Rothschild
Born1853
Nordstetten, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
DiedJuly 29, 1902 (age 52)
Chicago, Illinois
Cause of deathsuicide
NationalityAmerican
OccupationBusinessman
Known forFounder of A.M. Rothschild Company
RelativesNelson Morris (father-in-law)
Edward Morris (brother-in-law)
Ira Nelson Morris (brother-in-law)

Biography

Abram M. Rothschild was born to a Jewish family in 1853 in Nordstetten (today a district of Horb am Neckar), Baden-Württemberg, Germany, 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 to 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 29, 1902 in Chicago.[6][7] After his death, his wife married his cousin, Maurice L. Rothschild.[8][9][10]

References
  1. "Abram M Rothschild biography". Chicago Tribune. June 23, 1901.
  2. The World's Columbian Exposition Illustrated: February 1891 to February 1892. p. 11.
  3. "100 years of Chicago Jewry" (PDF). The Sentinel. August 1948.
  4. "DePaul Center Goldblatt Bros. & A.M. Rothschild & Co. - Department Store Building". chicago.designslinger. March 5, 2015.
  5. Roth, Nelson (Spring 2008). "Nelson Morris and "The Yards"" (PDF). Chicago Jewish Historical Society.
  6. "A. M. Rothschild, Successful Chicago Merchant, Commits Suicide While Despondent. Chicago, July 29, 1902". Woodford County Journal. July 31, 1902.
  7. "A.M. Rothschild Takes His Life". Chicago Tribune. July 29, 1902.
  8. "Mrs. M.L. Rothschild Dies". The Reform Advocate, America's Jewish Journal, Volume 64. December 23, 1922.
  9. "Maurice Rothschild, Chicago Merchant; Philanthropist Established His First Store at Seneca, Kansas". The New York Times. April 24, 1941.
  10. "Maurice L. Rothschild & Co. Building". Chicago Design Slinger. February 22, 2015.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.