MARCUS KAHN, Mason City. The subject of this memoir was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, March 24, 1848; at 2 years of age, he with his parents, emigrated to America, and located at Mt. Pulaski, Logan Co., Ill., in 1850: here his father, Moritz Kahn, engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1856, when he removed his goods to Lincoln, where he was engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1866, at which time he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he resided several years, and about the year 1870, returned to Lincoln, where his decease occurred Aug. 24, 1876; his widow died Oct. 26, 1878. Marcus Kahn attended the common and graded schools at Lincoln, and completed his education by a term at the Commercial College. at Cincinnati; .his mercantile education was obtained in the store of his father, after which, in 1868, he opened in the clothing trade at Harvard, McHenry Co., Ill., continuing the same until July, 1870, when he removed his stock to Mason City, and continued the same business until July, 1879, and is now engaged in the well-known banking house of F. N. Smith & Co. His marriage with Anna Rothschild was celebrated in Petersburg, Menard Co., in October, 1876, at which place her birth occurred in 1857; they have one child by this union, Julius M. Mrs. Kahn was a daughter of Moses Rothschild, one of the early pioneers of Menard Co.



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