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Mayer, Leopold, 1838-1926

 Person

Biography

Leopold Mayer was born in Alsace-Lorraine in 1838 and immigrated to New York when he was 11 years old. In 1859, at the beginning of the Colorado gold rush, he began a 70-day walk to Auraria (Denver), Colorado from Levinworth, Kansas. He went into the general merchandise business and served on the second Denver City Council. In 1880, Leopold and Barbara Mayer and their sons went to Saguache, Colorado, where Leopold Mayer became a rancher and later founded a bank and dry goods store. He served as a state representative while in Saguache. Leopold and his family moved back to Denver in 1893 and he died in Denver in 1926. Leopold Mayer married his second wife Pauline Schlossmann May 1887 in Chicago.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Blazing the Trail: An Early History of Denver’s Jewish Community, 2009

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Identifier: B230.03.0023.00008
Abstract

Brief description of several early Jewish leaders of commerce, philanthropy, religion, and community as well as several Jewish lawyers, doctors, merchants, and politicians in Colorado.

Dates: 2009

Leopold and Barbara Mayer and Son, 1884

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Identifier: B063.05.0038.00064
Abstract

Leopold Mayer, first wife Barbara, and son pose with two unidentified women on the porch of the Mayer home at 18th and Ogden in Denver, Colorado.

Dates: 1884

Leopold and Pauline Mayer, circa 1900

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Identifier: B063.05.0038.00063
Abstract

Leopold and Pauline Mayer pose together for a studio portrait.

Dates: circa 1900

Mayer Home in Saguache, 1884

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Identifier: B063.05.0052.00016
Abstract

Leopold and Barbara Mayer stand by the gate in front of their home in Saguache, Colorado. Their sons Sam, Fred, and Adolph and an unidentified boy sit on horseback in the front yard around an unidentified man.

Dates: 1884