♂ Henry SIEGEL
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Notizen zu dieser Person
Famille d'origine juive de Bade.
Il émigre aux Etats-Unis en 1867.
He began his career as a humble store merchandiser in Washington and then worked as a travelling salesman. Later working in the manufacture ofwomen wear with his brother, after ten years he withdrew his holdings,totalling $75,000, and with a partner organised the firm Siegel & Cooper in Illinois where he opened his first department store in Chicago, Siegel & Cooper Store, with aspirations of becoming “The Department Store King” of the USA. More stores followed: three department stores in New York and the Henry Siegel Co in Boston, among others, earning him themoniker “The Merchant Prince”. But in 1914 Siegel enterprises went into bankruptcy and Siegel Bank was found to be insolvent.
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Henri
Frebault
