Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, pp 528-529 [McCracken] MRS. REUBEN LOEB, widow of the late Reuben Loeb, who for many years was identified with the best interests of Paducah, Kentucky, and who died in March, 1902, is a lady who enjoys the deepest respect of her neighbors and friends in Paducah, and is now living in that city, surrounded by many of the comforts of life supplied by her husband's foresight and love. Reuben Loeb was born in Germany, December 12, 1829, and came to America when only seventeen years of age. The first eight years of his life in America were spent in different parts of the country, and in 1854 he located in Paducah, where he embarked in a wholesale liquor business, and at the time of his death was a member of the firm of Loeb, Bloom & Company, and his interests in that concern are now held by his widow and children. At one time Mr. Loeb was also engaged in a dry-goods business in that city, and interested in the Western District Tobacco warehouse, one of Paducah's substantial institutions. He also owned much valuable realty in different portions of the city, and was one of the most important factors in the financial life of Paducah. His estate was so large that his family are left in very comfortable circumstances. Mr. Loeb was married in 1877, in Galveston, Texas, and these children were born: Sidney H., who travels for Loeb, Bloom & Company; Jessie B., who is the bookkeeper for the same firm; Florence M., who is at home; and three now deceased. Socially Mr. Loeb was a member of the Masonic fraternity of Paducah, in which he was very prominent, and he bore his part in all public improvements and all movements calculated to prove of benefit to the community at large. Mr. Loeb was a man who made and retained friends, and at the time of his death was sincerely mourned by many outside his own family, who knew and appreciated his many excellent qualities of mind and heart. Loeb Bloom = Germany TX http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/mccracken/loeb.r.txt