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- K. Straus and Company Inc.1
- Kuhn, Adam, 1741-18171
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-18651
- Marshall, John1
- McKnight, James1
- Pepper, William, 1874-19471
- Rosenbach, Morris1
- Spiller, Robert E.1
- The company was founded by Karl Straus born in 1845 who was a Jewish German immigrant. Straus arrived in Philadelphia in 1867 and he began a wholesale liquor business. In 1888 he became a tobacco merchant opening his own company named K. Straus & Co. Straus died in 1920 leaving the business to his nephew Adolf Loeb who incorporated the company in 1922.1
- University of Georgia. Libraries1