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Trade Card - Isaac Rothschild Leading Clothier.......103 & 104 W. Second St., DAVENPORT, IOWA...Fine comical scene of a Travrling Man....verso blank Isaac Rothschild was born December 4, 1844, in Landkreis Freudenstadt, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. He entered the clothing business in Davenport in 1863. Isaac married Rosa Auerbach on February 6, 1871, in Davenport. She had actually been a schoolmate of his while a child in Germany, the daughter of Berthold Von Auerbach of Frankfort-on-the-Main, who had come to Davenport, like many Germans, to live. In 1890, Isaac Rothschild advertised the very latest fad - black lamb's wool underwear! When the Ringling Bros. Circus came to town in May 1895, the much anticipated occasion was accompanied by a number of robberies and thefts, the chief of which was the burglarizing of Isaac Rothschild’s residence. While much of Davenport lined the downtown streets to see the circus parade, the thieves absconded with the goods, mostly jewelry, valued at $1,000. Isaac Rothschild remained in business until about 1899 when he was forced to file for bankruptcy. In 1900 he became a clerk for Mosenfelder & Kohn Clothiers and the following year began a 14-year career with the J.H.C. Petersen’s Sons’ Department Store. In November 1914 when he accepted a position at the Neustadt Clothing

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Arc.MS.56, Box 14, Folder 13