Billhead from the mercantile business of Isidor Bush, located at the southeast corner of 4th and Elm Streets in St. Louis, Missouri. Dated March 30, 1874. The billhead notes that Bush was a leader in the Jewish community and founded the first Jewish weekly newspaper in New York City in 1849, which lasted only three months. Correspondence with Isaac Leeser is also mentioned.
Subject: St. Louis (Mo.)--History
No additional authority information available for St. Louis (Mo.)--History.
This 1889 broadside advertises grapevines from Isidor Bush & Co.'s American Wine Depot in St. Louis, Missouri. The broadside lists various types of grapevines with prices and features the company's address: 213 & 215 South Second Street, St. Louis. Isidor Bush (1822-1898) was a prominent figure in St. Louis, known for his contributions to viticulture and Jewish communal life.
Cabinet photograph of Adolph Klauber Sr. (1826-1891), taken by Voorhees in St. Louis, Missouri, circa 1885. Klauber is buried in the New Mount Sinai Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri. The photograph's description notes that he was the brother of E. Klauber, who moved to Louisville, Kentucky in 1853, and that Adolph served as a trustee of Congregation Adath Israel for over five decades.
PETION - TO SUB.DIVIDE LAND ASD BY COHEN AS A COMMISSIONER OF THE CITY; St. Louis, Missouri.....11/20/1835...Thomas Cohen was a silversmith and watchmaker who came to Chillicothe from Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1815, and left in 1817. His father?s name was Jacob Cohen. Since the younger Cohen had a Christian given name, the elder Cohen was probably a Jew married to a non-Jewish woman who raised their children Christian (a not-uncommon occurrence in the colonial era).