Solomon Loeb - Biography

Solomon Loeb (June 29, 1828 — December 12, 1903) was a German American merchant in textiles and later a banker with Kuhn, Loeb & Co.. His father, a devout Jew, had been a small corn- and wine-dealer in Worms, which belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine. S. Loeb emigrated to the United States in 1849. He settled in Cincinnati with textiles merchants Kuhn, Netter & Co. He moved to New York City in 1865 and with his partner Abraham Kuhn started the banking house of Kuhn, Loeb and Co.. His second born son James Loeb joined the bank in 1888 (and left in 1901). Salomon Loeb gradually retired from running the business, but left Kuhn, Loeb & Co. only in 1899. He then started to work in real estate. He was a generous philanthropist.

Family

• First wife: Fanny Kuhn, sister of Abraham Kuhn
• Children of the first marriage:

Therese Loeb, who married Jacob H. Schiff in 1875, their daughter Frieda Schiff married Felix Warburg in 1895.

• Second wife: Betty Gallenberg, from Mannheim (Germany). A pianist.
• Children of the second marriage: Morris, Guta, James and Nina.

Morris Loeb (b. 1863 Cincinnati, d. 1912) professor of chemistry, married Eda Kuhn in 1895, the daughter of Samuel and Regina Wise Kuhn. Samuel Kuhn was a brother of Abraham Kuhn

Guta Loeb (b. Sept. 5, 1865 New York). She married Isaac N. Seligman, David Seligman's grandson.

James (Jimmy) Loeb (b. 1867 New York, d. 1933) banker

Nina Loeb (b. 1870 - d. 1945), married Paul Warburg in 1895.

See Loeb Family Tree

Homes

• East 38th Street

External links

• Solomon Loeb's beginnings in Cincinnati
• Loeb Collection was a gift to the Cincinnati Library
• Loeb, Solomon from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05