Mayer, Leopold, 1838-1926
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
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.
Blazing the Trail, Panel 2, 2001
One of 12 exhibit display panels from the exhibit "Blazing the Trail: Denver's Jewish Pioneers." Panel titled "Blazing the Trail: Denver's Jewish Pioneers" features Fred Salomon, Frances Wisebart Jacobs, Benjamin Jacobs, Philip Hornbein, Leopold Mayer and Otto Mears.
Exterior of Leopold Mayer's Bank and Dry Goods Store in Saguache, Colorado, circa 1885
A group of men stand on the wood sidewalk in front of a row of buildings. A sign reads, "Gotthelf & Mayer Bank, Dry Goods and Clothing, Groceries" and other signs read, "Saguache County Bank", "Gotthelf & Mayer" and "Ruby Saloon". Leopold Mayer began as a shoe and boot merchant.
Mayer Store, between 1880-1889
Group of people stand on a boardwalk in front of the Isaac Gotthelf and Leopold Mayer store and bank in Saguache, Colorado. Sign over the door says, ''The Gotthelf and Mayer Mer.''