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In 1892 Isaac Cooper and his wife's brother, Louis Levy, established the firm of Cooper & Levy, a grocery, hardware, and woodenware business. They supplied most of the prospectors during the Alaska-Klondike gold rush and acquired a considerable fortune by the time they sold out ten years later to the Bon Marché department store. In 1892 Esther Levy and her daughter, Lizzie Levy Cooper, organized Seattle's first Jewish welfare society, the Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent Society. Over time, both served as president of the organization. Lizzie Levy Cooper was also president of the Seattle Council of Jewish Women, vice president of the state council, president of the Ladies Auxiliary to Temple De Hirsch. She died in 1915. Two of Lizzie Levy Cooper's brothers, Aubrey Levy, a lawyer, and Eugene Levy, a motion picture theater promoter, in partnership with Isaac Cooper (Lizzie Levy Cooper's husband) formed the Republic Operating Company and in 1927 built the Republic Building at Third Avenue and Pike Street. All of the income from this building was willed to the Jewish Welfare Society, the Caroline Kline Galland Home for the Aged, and the Seattle Children's Orthopedic Hospital of Seattle.
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