Meat industry and trade

Abstract Shul Baer Milstein, the patriarch of the Cotopaxi colony opened his own kosher meat market along with his sons who also worked in the business. Max Milstein died in 1947. Louis Heller was born in 1885 and died in 1960. Louis Heller and his brother Allan mailed Kosher meat to over 50 Jewish families in the west. Collection contains financial records, articles, and accounts of a "riot" between Rabbi Yiddelson and George Ginsburg and Morris Radetsky over the Rabbi's requiring two Shochets...

Abstract Louis K. Sigman, the owner of K&G packing, the largest independent meat packing plant in Colorado, was the son of East European immigrants. Born in 1881, he moved to Denver as a young boy. To support himself, Louis shined shoes and sold matches and newspapers to earn enought money to bring his parents to Colorado from Russia. In Denver, his father opened Sigman's Grocery in the West Colfax neighborhood. Louis began his meat business with just one calf and went on to become a...