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SOLOMON BAMBERGER is one of the foremost business men of St. Mary's, who has been the chief promoter of many of its leading enterprises, and is identified with various of its mercantile, manufacturing and financial interests.  He was born in Bavaria, Germany.  Jan. 12, 1816, a son of a Bavarian merchant.  David Bamberger, who died in his native land in 1890, at the venerable age of seventy-nine years.
     Our subject is the third of nine children, all of whom are living.  He laid the foundation of his education in the common schools of his country, and subsequently completed it in a commercial college at Bamberg.  Ambitious to see something of the world and to try life in America, where he felt confident he could win his way to a fortune, he turned his back on his pleasant old home and on his childhood friends when only fourteen years of age, in the year 1860, and, embarking at Bremen in October, landed at New York two weeks later.  Thence he came to Ohio, and, for the next five years his life was passed in Sandusky, where he clerked for a short time, and then engaged in the clothing business for himself.  In 1854, he went to St. Joseph, Mo., where he was in business three years.  In 1868, he returned Eastward, and spent a year as a clerk in a dry-goods store in New York City.  In 1869, he again took up his residence in Ohio, coming to St. Mary's, where he has since engaged in the clothing business, with the exception of the year 1886, which he passed in New York.
     In 1887, Mr. Bamberger and two other gentlemen built the Fountain Hotel, in which he has a one-third interest, and he occupies a fine and handsomely fitted up store in the building, in which he carries a complete line of gentlemen's clothing, such as is furnished by the best establishments of the kind in the large cities of the country.  Our subject's attention is by no means confined to the management of this concern, but he has launched out in other directions, and has made himself a public benefactor by his far-seeing and well directed enterprise.  In 1880, he associated himself with T. E. Hollingsworth in the lumber business, which they still carry on.  He is President of the People's Building and Loan Association, which is in a flourishing condition under his careful and capable management; and he is Treasurer and stockholder of the Bimel Carriage Company, which was organized in 1892; and in 1890 he helped to organize the Home Banking Company, of which he is Vice-president.  He is a member of the Bamberger & Bollingsworth Oil Company, which has four wells, all producing a good supply of oil; he has also valuable property interests in St. Mary's, including his large and handsomely appointed frame residence on the corner of South and Main Streets, which he erected in 1887.  He is President of the Graphic Publishing Company, which issues the Republican organ of this city, and, as with everything else with which his name is connected, is well conducted on a sound and paying basis.  In politics, he acts with the Republican party.  He was a member of the Board of Education one term, and takes a friendly interest in the schools of the city.  Socially, he is a Mason of the highest standing.  He is Master of Mercer Masonic Lodge No. 121, and is High Priest of St. Mary's Chapter No. 51.
     Mr. Bamberger was married in 1874, in New York City, to Miss Lena Cohn, a native of that city, and a daughter of L. H. Cohn, who was a German by birth, and was a fresco painter in that city.  Three children have blessed the congenial wedded life of our subject and his amiable wife, whom they have named respectively Ray, Lewis and Gilbert.
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