Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1920 — CELEBRATES 77TH BIRTHDAY [ARTICLE]

CELEBRATES 77TH BIRTHDAY

HAS BEEN A RESIDENT OF RENSSELAER SINCE ; 1863. This Thursday, August 12, 1920. Mrs. Abraham Leopold, wife of Rensselaer’s most prominent retired merchant, passed her seventy-seventh milestone. The journey on this happy and useful voyage was begun in Germany on August 12, 1843. When about eighteen years of age she came to America. At the age of twenty she was joined in happy wedlock with her,, faithful husband and located/ in this city. Since 1863 x Mr. and Mrs. Leopold have been identified with the activities and- progress of Rensselaer. His splendid business success and large part in the upbuilding of the city has been fully equalled by her devotion to home and family. No higher compliment can be paid to any person than to say, “she is a good mother,” and these are the words of praise given to her by her children and her neighbors. If we will study the character of the persons who are doing the world’s work and are useful and influential in the circles in which they move, we will find 'back of each a good mother. We are sure that each son ana daughter of Mrs. Leopold would, if asked, say, “whatever success has come to me is due in a very large measure to the guiding influence and love of my mother.” Mother Leopold is justly proud of her children, all of whom have become men and women of excellent character and are meeting with success in their professional or business careers. '.Her oldest daughter, Mrs. Leo Wolfe, is the wife qf Hammond’s leading merchant. Mrs. Lewis Haas, another daughter, is a resident of Tipton, where her husband is a very successful merchant and another daughter, Gertrude, is still a member of the Leopold home. All of these daughters are prominent in the social activities of their respective cities. Her sons are Benjamin, a prosperous merchant of Brook; Simon, of Colorado Springs, Colo., is meeting with success in the west- Louis is located in Chicago and of the leading men with the firm of Kapper & Kapper, a large clothing firm; Isaac and Moses are located in this city. The former is a successful real estate agent and the latter is prominently connected with the Farmers and Merchants National Bank. Moses is one of the leadink attorneys of the Jasper county bar and enjoys a large practice here and in.the surrounding counties. He is very active in politics and is' now serving as the chairman of the Jasper County Republican Central Committee. . The two daughters, who live out of the city, were present at the birthday dinner at the Leopold home.