Biographical Sketch of Jake Marx, Springfield, Greene County, Missouri

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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This gentleman was born in Prussia, November 13, 1850 and is the son of
Emanuel and Hannah Marx.  In 1867 he came to America and located in
Louisville, Kentucky, where he was a clerk in a dry goods clothing
house for two years.  He then went to Paducah, Kentucky, and sold the
same line of goods for about eight years.  He came to Springfield in
February, 1878 and was a partner in the dry goods and clothing house of
Cohn Bros. & Co.  He bought out his partners and has since carried on
the business alone.  He carries an immense stock of fine goods and is
deservedly popular.  Mr. Marx was married at Louisville, on the 19th of
September, 1877, to Miss Francis Cohn.

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