Freudenthal, Carmen K., 1898-1991

Louis Edwin Freudenthal was born June 18, 1895, to Phoebus and Amalia Lewy Freudenthal, in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Phoebus was the fourth generation of his family to settle in New Mexico. Phoebus left from Germany in 1869 at age thirteen, to work for an uncle, in Las Cruces. He eventually established his business, Louis Freudenthal and Company, named for his father. The business was sold to Adolph Jacoby in 1899 when Phoebus took over the management of Solomon Commercial Company in Arizona. Phoebus and Amalia had two other children: Bernard who eventually settled in California; and Robert, who died in infancy.

Freudenthal attended school as a child in Solomonville, Arizona. Later Freudenthal was sent to live with relatives in New York, where he attended private schools and eventually graduated from De Witt Clinton High School. Freudenthal graduated from Cornell University in 1916, majoring in agricultural studies.

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