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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: LOEWENSTEIN, Solomon
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Sandy Spradling
SSpradling@AOL.com
September 25, 1999
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History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative
Citizens
W.S. Laidley
Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL.
1911
p. 407
SOLOMON LOEWENSTEIN, who founded in Charleston, W. Va., the hardware and
saddlery business now carried on by his sons, Isaac, Joe and Abe, was born in
1834 near Berlin, Germany, and came to America in 1860, locating at Columbus,
Ohio. At the time of the Civil war he enlisted for service in the Union army,
as a private in the 23d Ohio Vol. Infantry, and was honorably discharged
after a military service of three years. He then came to Charleston and
opened a harness shop, having learned his trade in Ohio, and conducted the
business alone until 1890, when he took his two elder sons, Louis and Moses,
into partnership, and the business developed into a wholesale and retail
hardware, harness and saddlery concern. In 1903 the eldest son, Louis
Loewenstein, died at the age of thirty-five years. He left a widow, Ida
(Hananer) Loewenstein, who now resides in Pittsburg, Pa. The father and other
son continued the business until 1909, when both died and the younger sons
succeeded, these three brothers being Isaac, Joe and Abe the present
proprietors of the business. They have a dozen men on the road, besides
numerous other employees. The business, which is very large and is both
wholesale and retail, utilizes five floors and a basement at Nos. 223-225
Capitol Street, Charleston.
Mrs. Solomon Loewenstein, whose maiden name was Henrietta Fecheiner, was born
in Ohio, of German parents, and was mar-ried to Mr. Loewenstein at
Cincinnati, Ohio. She still survives and makes her home with her sons. She
has three married daughters, namely: Amelia, who married Samuel Hess and
resides at Charleston, having one son, Morton; Mamie, also a resident of
Charleston, who married David Pear and has two children-Howard and Louis; and
Bella, who is the wife of Arthur Isaacs, of Columbus, Ohio.
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