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Seminararbeit Brentano;
„Browning Genealogy: Evansville Area Obituary Search“;
History of Indiana 1922, Volume 3
- Aus der „History of Indiana 1922 Volume 3”, section Charles W. Bradley, M.D., ist über Sol A. Brentano folgendes zu entnehmen:
“Sol A. Brentano, treasurer of the Midland Furniture Company has had led an active and interesting career, culminating in his attainment of a position as one of the prominent business men of Evansville. He was born in this city, November 30, 1879, and is a son of August and Mahla (Kahn) Brentano, the former a native of Austria and the latter of Evansville. (…) Sol. A. Brentano attended the public schools of Evansville, graduating from the high school in 1898, and later spent three years at the Rose Polytechnic Institute, from which he received the degree of Civil Engineer in 1903. He next took a bridge engineer’s course from the International Correspondence Schools, Scranton, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1905. During a period of seventeen years Mr. Brentano was engaged as a construction engineer and in this time travelled extensively in following his profession. He spent two years to Los Angeles, California, then returning to Evansville, where he oversaw the construction of buildings for the old State Bank, Stanley Hall and the Wheeler school. In 1918 Mr. Brentano became efficiency engineer for the Midland Furniture Company, which had been started in 1910 by John Stephans, and which was purchased from that gentleman by Nestor Brentano in 1915. In 1918, Sol A. Brentano became secretary and treasurer of the company, but since that time a reorganization has been effected, the present officials being: Nestor Brentano, president; Sidney Ichenhauser, vice-president; Sol A. Brentano, treasurer; and Sam Brentano, secretary. The business of this concern is the manufacture of living room suites, in addition to several specialties put forth by company, these including a “spinet desk” and “chifforobe,” the product having a wide sale all over the United States. Sol A. Brentano has charge of the factory, at Seventh and Ohio Streets, while Nestor Brentano superintends affair at the offices of the company, in the Lions Building, corner of First and Main Streets, suite 203-4-5. The firm belongs to the Chamber of Commerce. While Mr. Brentano gives his principal attention to the Midland Furniture Company, he also has other interests, and is a stockholder in Raphael Brothers, the Southern Stove Works, the United States Furniture Company, the Brentano Investment Company, the Sunbeam Electric Company, the Furniture Building, and other enterprises. A Republican in politics, he has taken a keen interest in civic affairs, and as the firs building inspector of Evansville drafted the first building ordinance of the city, with the assistance of Albion Fellows Bacon. October 23 1907 at Los Angeles, Mr. Brentano was united in marriage with Miss Kathryn Doyle of Keokuk, Iowa, whose father was a large landholder in the Hawkeye state. To Mr. And Mrs. Brentano there have been born three children; Kathryn Loraine, who was born in 1908; Mahla Anne, born in 1911; and A. Doyle, born in 1913. Mr. Brentano’s family are all members of the Church of the Assumption, and with them, he is a regular attendant, although not a member” .
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