Word: eubigheim
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...Lakewood, N. J. at the age of 78, he was neither rich nor remembered. The Retail Napoleon had had his St. Helena as well as his Waterloo. Henry Siegel arrived in the U. S. in 1867, aged 15, the eighth of the ten sons of the burgomaster of Eubigheim, Germany. He started clerking in Washington at $3.50 a week. He soon owned stores in Manhattan, Chicago and Boston, homes in Manhattan, Westchester, London. He entertained lavishly, filled his homes with art. Much of this art consisted of paintings, busts, statuettes, bas-reliefs, medallions, etchings, biographies of Napoleon Bonaparte.* For between...
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