Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1919 — CELEBRATING 86TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH. [ARTICLE]

CELEBRATING 86TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH.

Abraham Leopold is celebrating the 86th anniversary of his birth today, December 2, at his home on South Front street, having been born in Germany the second day of December in the year 1833. When about twenty years of age Mr. Leopold emigrated to this country and, like all emigrants, his worldly possessions were few, consisting of a silver dollar and the clothes he wore upo nhis back upon arrival in this country. The purchase of a loaf of bread reduced the silver dollar to ninety-five cents, and from that ninety-five cents Mr. Leopold built his present comfortable fortune. After a few months spent in the east, Mr. Leopold located in Chicago, where he remained until 1863, at which time he came to this city, where he has continued to reside since that time.