LOEB, Sol., GER., then St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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SOL. LOEB, OPELOUSAS.--Mr. Loeb, a merchant and planter of this place, is a
native of Germany, born near the river Rhine, December 8, 1838.  His father,
Aaron Loeb, died when our subject was an infant, and when about ten years of
age young Sol came to New York, where some of his relatives had preceded him.
He remained in New York for some time, afterward attending school in Hartford,
Connecticut; after which he was located in Woodville, Mississippi, until the
breaking out of the Civil War.  Though a native of a foreign land, and
partially reared among those against whom he afterward fought, Mr. Loeb was
intensely southern in sentiment, and at the first call of his adopted
Southland, he shouldered his musket, and, enlisting in the first company
Wilkinson Rifles, Sixteenth Mississippi Regiment, he went out "to conqueror be
conquered."  During the time of his service he operated in Virginia under
Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.  He was in the battles of Cross Keys,
Winchester, Harper's Ferry, Port Republic, the seven days' fight around
Richmond and the second battle of Manassas, in which he received a severe
flesh wound, from the effect of which he lay in Richmond two months, when, his
general health being greatly impaired, he received his final discharge.  He
shortly afterward went to Mexico and engaged in business.  While there, in
1864, he met and married Miss Jeannette Marks, of New Orleans, who, like
himself, had gone to Mexico to escape the turbulent effects of the war.  After
the close of the war he removed to New Orleans and here embarked in business.
During the yellow fever scourge of 1867, Mrs. Loeb died, and our subject
removed to Opelousas and located in business.  In 1876 he married the second
time, Miss Sarah Feibelman, of New Orleans.

Mr. Loeb is the happy father of seven children; first, Mrs. Jacob Frankel, the
issue of the first marriage.  Three sons and three daughters have been born to
the second union.  Mr. Loeb is a thorough, progressive American citizen.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
55-56.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.