Samuel Clasen Values Codes: I – E Samuel Clasen was born in Rosedale, Kansas, five miles south of Kansas City, Missouri. He graduated from a business college in Kansas City, MO, and joined his father’s retail store. Samuel won election to the Rosedale council in 1909,
Read more →Kansas Leadership Offices Kansas had a small contingent of Jewish officeholders in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Kansas’s Jewish population was 819 in 1877 and rose to 9,450 by 1917. Fifteen Jewish Kansans won 35 elections, 35th highest in the country. Eleven of the fifteen Jewish officeholders won
Read more →August M. Bondi Values Codes I – H – E – L August M. Bondi was born Anshl Mendel Bondy in 1833, in Vienna, Austria. Bondi grew up among the Austrian elite, and was educated secularly as well as religiously. As a teenager, he attended the Academic Gymnasium
Read more →Adolph Gluck Values Codes I – E – L – P Adolph Gluck was born in 1843 to a poor family in a small town in Hungary. He arrived in the United States with his parents in the 1850’s. Along the way . . . The Glucks settled first
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