Author: Floyd S. FiermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Adolph Schwartz, a jew, was born in 1866 at Stropko, an Austrian- Hungarian village (later in Czechoslovakia), He immigrated to United States in 1833, stayed a short while at New York, then Cincinnati, San Francisco, San Diego, and Juárez, Mexico. At Juárez, he went into business with Simon Picard. He moved to El Paso, Texas, in 1900, where he opened a dry goods store, which became the Popular Store chain; and went into real estate. He brought relatives from Europe to help in running the business. He and his wife, Fanny Amstater, had three children. He died in 1941 while working at his store and was succeeded in business by his nephew, Maurice Schwartz. Includes some information about his family and related families.
