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- Rush, Benjamin, 1746-181317
- Physick, Philip Syng, 1768-18375
- Paris, Russel Clark, 1859-19464
- Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-18152
- Lyons, Champ, 1907-19652
- Agnew, Hulbert1
- Champneys, Jane Benson1
- Hare, Hobart A.1
- Huxham, John, 1692-17681
- Jones, Clement R., Jr.1
- McKnight, James1
- Pepper, William, 1874-19471
- 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