Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1919 — CITY OF GREAT FINANCIERS [ARTICLE]

CITY OF GREAT FINANCIERS

Frankfort-on-Main Celebrated for Remarkable Men of Genius It Has Given to World Frankfort, the famous German town on the River Main, is the birthplace of the world’s greatest millionaires. It is a wealthy commercial city, and quite disproportionately famous in comparison with its actual size. The Rothschilds, whose ancestral home is now the solitary relic of the once famous Jewish quarter of the city; the Sterns and the Speyers in England, and the Kahns, the Kuhn, Loeb & Co., in this country, would alone suffice to make it remarkable as the birthplace of international financiers. Even more extraordinary is the number of successful financial firms which had their birth or whose founders were born on the banks of the Main. The, reason which is usually given for this seemingly strange coincidence is that the geographical position of Frankfort is such that a mixture of races is fostered, and that has been proved to be specially favorable to financial genius.