Bernhard Kuppenheimer

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Bernhard Kuppenheimer

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Birthplace: Kuppenheim, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg
Death: October 28, 1903 (74)
Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
Place of Burial: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States of America
Immediate Family:

Son of Jonas Loew Kuppenheimer and Caroline Kuppenheimer
Husband of Augusta Kuppenheimer
Father of Jonas Kuppenheimer; Emma Stern; Louis Bernhard Kuppenheimer and Albert B. Kuppenheimer
Brother of Louis Kuppenheim; Jennie (Maria Anna) Falk; Amalie Aron; Leo Kuppenheimer and John Kuppenheimer

Managed by: Nicolette Nicholson
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About Bernhard Kuppenheimer

Kuppenheimer (B.) & Co. Bernard Kuppenheimer emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1850 when he was 21 years old. In 1865, he became a partner in the Chicago clothing firm of Kohn, Claybugh & Einstein, which had been established two years earlier. In 1876, the old firm dissolved, and B. Kuppenheimer and his son Jonas started their own men's clothing company. By the 1880s, when they employed as many as 1,000 people to manufacture garments, annual sales reached $1 million. By 1910, the company employed close to 2,000 men and women at shops around the city. Kuppenheimer continued to operate independently as a leading manufacturer of men's clothing until 1982, when it was purchased by another old Chicago clothing company, Hart, Schaffner & Marx (later Hartmarx). By the mid-1990s, when the company was headquartered in Atlanta, sales were lagging, many of its stores were closing, and it entered into bankruptcy. After Hartmarx sold the troubled company to an intermediate investment group, Kuppenheimer was purchased in 1997 by the Men's Warehouse suit retailer, who closed many more Kuppenheimer stores and eventually folded the Kuppenheimer business into its own. See also Hart, Schaffner & Marx.

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Bernhard Kuppenheimer's Timeline

1829
July 22, 1829
Kuppenheim, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg
1854
June 19, 1854
Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, United States
1856
March 28, 1856
Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, United States
1857
July 18, 1857
Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, United States
1866
May 31, 1866
Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
1870
1870
Age 40
Chicago Ward 4, Cook, Illinois, USA
1903
October 28, 1903
Age 74
Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
October 29, 1903
Age 74
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States of America