Rosenbaum, Max, 1887-1966.

Max Rosenbaum was born in New York in 1887 and later moved with his family to Selma, Alabama. After serving in World War I, he traveled around visiting friends from the Army. In 1923, Rosenbaum married Ruth Elgutter, the daughter of a prominent Jewish family that immigrated from Germany to Newellton, Louisiana, near Natchez, and then to Baton Rouge. He then went to work at his father-in-law's business located on Third Street, the Guarantee Shoe Store. Two years later, the couple's only son, Bert Rosenbaum, was born. Max Rosenbaum continued to work in the family business for many years, traveling to nearby states in order to purchase shoes to stock the store. He died in 1966.