Weidenfeld, Joseph Edgar
Joseph Edgar Weidenfeld, wholesale millinery;
born in: Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, on April 2, 1868;
son of: Herman Weidenfeld and Henrietta Weidenfeld, nee: Henrietta Pflaum
education: public schools of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and Spencerian College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin;
married: Florence Weidenfeld, nee: Florence Sallinger, in Chicago, on September 19, 1901;
daughters: Sylvia Dorothy Weidenfeld, Marion Florence Weidenfeld.
Was clerk in store at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, 1884-6;
came to Chicago, 1886, and worked in millinery business until 1888;
went to Milwaukee and in charge department store, 1889-93;
returned to Chicago and was in commission business, 1893-5;
again in millinery business, with Chicago Mercantile Company, 1895-1901;
president: Todd, Smith & Company, woman's apparel, 1901-9;
since then member of the Chicago Mercantile Company.
Recreations: hunting, fishing.
Office: 159 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
Homes: 7616 N. Greenview Avenue, Rogers Park, and Harmony Cottage, Lake Catherine, Antioch, Illinois.
Source: Book of Chicagoans, 1917.