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Billhead - Phillips & Liebenstein....167 & 169 (Offices / Corner of Superior & Roberts St (Factory), Chicago IL...1/21/1870 ......Mfg of Chairs and Furniture. Henry Liebenstein helped to set up his brother-in-law Joseph Spiegel in what was to become the nationally known Spiegel Catalogue. For the first 100 years of its history, Spiegel was primarily a family business. The company was founded in 1865 by German-Jewish entrepreneur Joseph Spiegel, the son of a German Rabbi and younger brother of Union Army Colonel Marcus M. Spiegel. After spending the final few months of the Civil War in a Confederate prison camp, Joseph Spiegel settled in Chicago, where his brother-in-law, Henry Liebenstein, ran a furniture business. With Liebenstein's assistance, Joseph Spiegel opened J. Spiegel and Company, a small home furnishings retail operation located on Wabash Avenue in Chicago's loop.

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Arc.MS.56, Box 20, Folder 8