Jacob Epstein 1864-1945-Baltimore, MD
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Jacob Epstein 1864-1945-Innovative wholesale merchant to the South and collector of Old Master paintings.
Waymark Code: WM11NBJ
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 11/18/2019
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Jacob Epstein 1864-1945-Innovative wholesale merchant to the South and collector of Old Master paintings. As a philanthropist, he inaugurated the system of matching charitable grants.
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Except from above link-One of the largest businesses on the West Side in the early twentieth century the Baltimore Bargain House—a mail-order wholesale business that employed over a thousand people and earned profits in the millions that grew to become the fourth largest wholesalers in the county. Driven by the devotion of Jewish Lithuanian immigrant Jacob Epstein, the Baltimore Bargain House became a hub for Southern Jewish merchants and a local business community. When firm’s grand showroom at West Baltimore and North Liberty Streets opened in 1911, a crowd of 500 local businessmen, the Mayor of Baltimore, and the Governor of Maryland all attended the dedication.