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   The founding of Kuhn, Loeb & Company in New York

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Of Solomon Loeb's relocation to New York, the founding of Kuhn, Loeb & Company and its early partners Abraham Wolff and Louis A. Heinesheimer


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Tired of making clothes and not yet old enough to retire, Solomon Loeb decided that banking was the right profession for him to exerce in the bustling financial capital of America. He thus established Kuhn, Loeb & Company as a private banking venture at Nr 31 Nassau Street in 1867, while his wife chose a proper brownstone mansion on Murray Hill, where she could be admitted to the essentially German born elite of Jewish-American society. Abraham Kuhn soon retired from both the Cincinnati textile business and the new banking venture in New York, to return to Germany with his wife, the former Regina Loeb, and his two daughters Ida and Emily. In 1876, Ida Kuhn married the artist painter Eduard Cohen. She should not be confused with Eda Kuhn,   ...

 

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