Greenbaum, Leopold 1836 – 1891

GREENBAUM, STRAUSS, LOEWENSTEIN

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Date: 12/12/2014 at 13:35:36

Iowa Plain Dealer January 15, 1891, P2 C2

DIED.

GREENBAUM—At his home in Cresco, Iowa, Jan. 10, 1891, Leopold Greenbaum, aged 55 years.

The sudden death of Mr. Greenbaum was a great shock to our community. Between 4 and 5 o’clock of last Saturday afternoon, Mr. Greenbaum while at his store complained of a very distressing feeling in his chest and stomach, and called in Dr. O. B. Bowers who gave him some medicine, and had Mr. Dean take him home with a team. Feeling chilly and distressed he went to bed. His wife chanced to be out calling, but his daughter applied hot water cloths to his chest and back and were doing all they could to help him when Mrs. G. returned home. She said to him that she was sorry that she was out when he came, but he told her that the girls had done all that was possible, and that he was feeling better and thought that he might go back to the store. They persuaded him not to try to go back to the store, and he remained in bed. Dr. Bowers, feeling anxious about him, soon called, but finding him more comfortable and apparently gaining, went away. A few minutes afterward he said he felt worse, and seemed to faint away. Dr. C. D. Roome, who lives in the next house, and who happened to be at home, was summoned, and responded immediately. Upon looking at Mr. Greenbaum he told the family that he thought he was dead, but as he might possibly be in a comatose condition he summond{sp} Dr. Bowers to come up with his battery to see if they could bring him to. But in vain; he had breathed his last. His death occurred about six o’clock, only about an hour after reaching home.

Drs. Bowers and Roome ascribe his death to paralysis of the heart.

His brother, H. Greenbaum and son, of Marshalltown, reached here on a freight train on Sunday, and Mrs. Greenbaum’s nephew, Emanuel Loewenstein, of Chicago, arrived on the Monday noon passenger train.

The remains were taken to Davenport on the afternoon passenger and express train on Monday, accompanied by Mrs. Greenbaum, her daughter Stella, her sons Albert and Harry, and Mr. Greenbaum of Marshalltown. The funeral services will be held in Davenport in the synagogue according to the Jewish ritual.

Mr. Greenbaum visited Davenport two weeks ago. How little did he think that his body would so soon go back over the same road to his old home!

Leopold Greenbaum was born in Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, Jan. 8, 1836. He came to Davenport, Iowa, in 1853. He has lived and done business in Beloit, Wis., Elmira, N. Y., Marshalltown, Anamosa and Davenport, Iowa. He was married in 1868 in New York City to Miss Adelaide Strauss.

In July 1887, Mr. Greenbaum, then residing at Davenport, succeeded A. Zundelowitz in the clothing business in Cresco, bringing his family here, and this has been their home ever since. His wife and four sons and four daughters survive him, and have the sympathy of a large list of friends in their sad bereavement.

Mr. Greenbaum was a good citizen and an honorable merchant, and his death is sincerely lamented.—Howard County Times.