Jacob Moritz Loeb

. Rose Stein, born April 2, 1876 in Chicago, and died in Chicago on October 6, 1952. She was married on June 1, 1897 to Jacob M. Loeb. Jacob M. Loeb was born in Chicago on September 17, 1875 and died in Chicago on February 17, 1944. From this union they had 5 children--Mildred Loeb, Caroline Loeb, Hamilton Loeb, Mary Jane Loeb, and John Jacob Loeb. Jacob M. Loeb and Ruth separated but never divorced. Jacob M. Loeb was a very successful insurance man head of Eliel & Loeb Company, Insurance. Side Note: Jacob M. Loeb's nephew was Richard Loeb of Loeb-Leopold Fame; and Jacob was the family spokesman during the trial as his brother Albert was too sick during the trial.

Jacob M. Loeb, highly respected German-Jewish businessman and philanthropist, who in 1928 was an alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Illinois, was active in the Chicago Jewish Relief Committee (organized in 1914) and the American Jewish Relief Committee for War Sufferers (WWI), was president of the Chicago Board of Education and served as the long-time president of the Chicago Hebrew Institute.