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Guggenheim, Meyer

 Person

Biography

U. S. Senator, served from 1907 to 1913.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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

 Item
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

Guggenheim Family, 1910, 2011

 File
Identifier: B111.04.0004.0016
Abstract Meyer Guggenheim (1828-?) came to Philadelphia from Lagnau, Switzerland when he was nine years old. Meyer married his wife Barbara and began working as a peddler, but soon left the streets and opened a store. The couple had eleven children. Guggenheim went west to Leadville, Colorado, in the late 1850s to take care of the A.Y. Mine, which he had received as payment from a buyer. After mining proved to be less profitable than he had expected, Meyer went into the business of smelting. With...
Dates: 1910, 2011

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