Kohlberg family papers, 1875-1985.

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Kohlberg family papers, 1875-1985.

Correspondence, photographs, news clippings, and ephemera documenting the activities of the Kohlberg family and history of El Paso. Includes information on the tobacco company owned by the Kohlberg family and the meeting between presidents Taft and Díaz in El Paso in 1909. Also contains some genealogical information.

ca. 6.5 linear feet.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7523063

University of Texas at El Paso

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Kohlberg Brothers. La Internacional Cigar Factory.

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Kohlberg family.

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The Kohlbergs were successful business and civic leaders who made important contributions to the development of El Paso and West Texas. Ernst Kohlberg was born in 1857, in Beverungen in Westphalia, at the time a province of Prussia. While employed by Solomon C. Schutz, he traveled to El Paso in 1875. He wrote a series of letters home describing his experiences. His father saved the letters and returned them to Ernst, whose son Walter later translated them. They became the basis of the book Lette...

Kohlberg, Olga Bernstein, 1864-1935.

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Kohlberg, Walter, 1885-1949.

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Kohlberg, Ernst, 1857-1910

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Born in Beverungen, Prussia, Ernst Kohlberg (1857-1910) immigrated to Texas in 1875 with Solomon C. Schutz and settled in El Paso, then called Franklin. Kohlberg worked in stores owned by Schutz on both sides of the Rio Grande, studied Spanish, and became deputy United States consul in El Paso del Norte, Mexico, and assistant postmaster in Franklin. After losing all his money investing in a gold mine in Jesús María, Mexico, Kohlberg moved to San Francisco, where he worked as a clerk...