Biographical Sketch of O. Delventhal, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Baden & Co., dealers in gents' furnishing goods, commenced business
in St. Joseph, Missouri, in the autumn of 1880, and in the short time
they have been here have won an enviable reputation.  O. Delventhal,
the junior member of the firm, is a native of Hanover, Germany, and
was born on January 7, 1855.  In his fourteenth year, he came to the
United States and became a citizen of Perry County, Missouri, and 
after a three years' residence, went to New York, where he filled a
clerkship for a time; then he removed to Davenport, Iowa, and finally
settled in Lincoln, Illinois, where he formed a copartnership with
Mr. Baden, gent's furnishing business, which they have since conducted
with a good degree of success.

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