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The Liebman –
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name in either family tree below for more information on many
individuals listed. For a full page, printable family tree,
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New Jersey and
Cleveland Branches
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Southern Loveman
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Loveman Merchants -
Dalton, Gadsden, Tuscaloosa
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Reuben Loveman (1827-1898) had been a Hebrew teacher
in Hungary, where he married and had two children. But he divorced
his first wife and emigrated to Cleveland, Ohio in 1859, and the
following year married Ernestine Schwartz (1836-1921), also a native
of Hungary. In Cleveland, they had two children: Linka and
Robert.
In 1865, after
the Civil War, the couple moved to Dalton, Georgia, where Ernestine
bore another daughter, Anna (1873-1920) and four more sons, Morris
(1866-1943), Samuel (1869-1904) Louis Napoleon (1870-1944) and
Berthold Auerbach (1876-1950).
Together with
Bernhard Friedman, said to
have been one of David Reuben's shipmates on the voyage to America, he
founded Loveman's Dry Goods Store on Hamilton Street in Dalton in
1865. It offered "a full line of clothing, parasols, shoes, sateens,
wall paper and other goods" and soon became the community's leading
retail outlet. Friedman, who was married to Ernestine's sister Adele
until her death in about 1879, would later marry Linka and become their son-in-law. The firm
eventually became Loveman and Sons and passed into the hands of
David Reuben's
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One of David Reuben's other sons, Louis Napoleon Loveman, was the owner of another retail establishment in Gadsden, Alabama, Herzberg Loveman Dry Goods.
The store stood on the corner of Broad and Third Streets in
downtown Gadsden and was a partnership with
Herman
Herzberg.
After Louis died in 1944, one of his sons, Eugene David Loveman
(1900-1971), who had worked in the business since the 1920s,
decided to close it after he had rebuffed several offers to
purchase it. |
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Louis Napoleon Loveman
(1870-1944), proprietor of Herzberg Loveman in Gadsden, Alabama.
Photo courtesy of Rhett Loveman. |
Eugene David Loveman
(1900-1971) took over the business after his father's death.
Photo courtesy of Rhett Loveman.
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According to
Eugene's wife, Margurie Elsie Crain Loveman (1914-2008), the
establishment did a creditable business, but he did not want to sell a
store with the family name in case he decided to re-open
it at a later date. |
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Above: At left,
Herzberg Loveman Dry Goods in Gadsden, Alabama in what appears to
be the 1920s.
Photo courtesy of Rhett Loveman. Click to enlarge. |
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David Reuben's second cousin
Emanuel P. Loveman (1848-1925), son of Mendel
Meyer (1812-1888) and his wife Bette Guttfreund (1827-?),
also did business with
Bernhard Friedman,
according to Friedman's granddaughter, the late Helen Friedman
Blackshear (1911-2003). After initial efforts in Nashville and
Pulaski, Tennessee and Atlanta that apparently also included
another cousin,
David Bernard Loveman
(1844-1926),
they set up a store in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on Market Street across
from City Hall. |
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After a fire destroyed their first store
in Tuscaloosa, the partners built a second in 1872. The two-story, brick building
was built on land vacant since Yankee
troops torched the University of Alabama's
Washington Hall in 1865. Friedman and Loveman
advertised the "largest and finest stock of dry
goods" ever brought to Tuscaloosa. |
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Friedman
and Loveman Wholesale Dry Goods and Shoes, on the site of the
former Washington Hall in Tuscaloosa, 1887. Click to
enlarge.
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Emanuel lived in New York, and most of his brothers worked
either in retail merchandising or a related field. His eldest
brother,
Adolph P. Loveman (1842-1935, was a cotton
broker, as was his younger brother
Herman P. Loveman (1850-1934).
Brother
Joseph Loveman (1851-?) was a dry goods merchant, as was
Joseph's son Emil Mayer Loveman (1881-1943). In 1918, when Emil
registered for the draft, he gave his place of employment as a
concern called Loveman Brothers, located at 906 Broadway in
Manhattan. And
William Loveman (1857-1929), the youngest of
Emanuel's brothers, lived in Nashville and founded the William
Loveman Millinery Company there at 456 Union Street; the firm
made and sold ready-to-wear and custom women's hats. |
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Scott D. Seligman, 2007-2019.
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