DAVID KAHN.

DAVID KAHN.
David Kahn, one of Sheridan's foremost business men and leading citizens, is at the head of the Citizens State Bank as its president and is manager of the Sheridan branch of the Bloom Shoe & Clothing Company. Alert and enterprising, he is watchful of every opportunity pointing to legitimate success and in the utilization of these opportunities he has reached a most creditable and enviable position, while his life record should serve to stimulate and encourage others, showing what may be accomplished through individual effort. Mr. Kahn is a native of France. He was born on the 7th of July, 1866, and is a son of Moses and Jeannette Kahn, both of whom passed away in France, the mother being a victim of the present world war. David Kahn was reared to his fifteenth year in his native country and during that period attended the common schools. In 1881 he resolved to try his fortune in the new world and crossed the Atlantic to the United States in company with Henry Hyman, of Iowa, who was visiting in France at the time and took an interest in the young lad. After arriving in this country Mr. Kahn entered the employ of Moses Bloom, a clothing merchant of Iowa City, in whose service he remained from 1881 until 1888. He then became an employe of Sol Bloom, a brother of Moses Bloom, working in his store in Sturgis, 'South Dakota, until 1890, when he was transferred to Mr. Bloom's store at Deadwood, South Dakota. There he continued until December, 1892, at which time he came to Sheridan, Wyoming, to take charge of the store which had been opened the previous month by the Bloom Shoe & Clothing Company, and for the past twenty-five years he has conducted the business and has built up the largest clothing and shoe trade in Sheridan. He is considered one of the most prominent merchants and business men of the city. He has shaped the policy of the house and has made it an institution of fair dealing and of earnest effort to please the patrons, ever recognizing the fact that satisfied customers are the best advertisement. Extending his efforts into other fields, he became one of the organizers of the Citizens State Bank in 1912. He was made a member of its board of directors and in 1914 was elected to the presidency of the institution. He also largely directs the policy of the bank and has ever displayed cognizance of the fact that the bank which most carefully safeguards the interests of depositors is the one most worthy of patronage and support. The success of the bank is attributable in no small measure to his efforts and business discernment. He is a man of keen sagacity and of indefatigable energy and carries forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes. In 1899 Mr. Kahn was united in marriage to Miss Bertha C. Kutcher, a daughter of Theodore Kutcher, of Sheridan, who has now passed away. Mr. and Mrs. Kahn have one son, Albert B. Fraternally Mr. Kahn is connected with Sheridan Lodge, No. 9, K. P.; and Sheridan Lodge, No. 520, B. P. 0. E. He is also a member of the Sheridan Commercial Club and is interested in all of its well defined plans for the upbuilding of the city, for the advancement of its commercial connections and for the upholding of its standards of citizenship and of civic progress. His entire life has been actuated by a spirit of advancement and the determination which led him to sever home ties and seek the opportunities of the new world has remained one of his salient characteristics and has carried him forward to most important business connections.

David Kahn, one of Sheridan's foremost business men and leading citizens, is at the head of the Citizens State Bank as its president and is manager of the Sheridan branch of the Bloom Shoe & Clothing Company. Alert and enterprising, he is watchful of every opportunity pointing to legitimate success and in the utilization of these opportunities he has reached a most creditable and enviable position, while his life record should serve to stimulate and encourage others, showing what may be accomplished through individual effort. Mr. Kahn is a native of France. He was born on the 7th of July, 1866, and is a son of Moses and Jeannette Kahn, both of whom passed away in France, the mother being a victim of the present world war.
David Kahn was reared to his fifteenth year in his native country and during that period attended the common schools. In 1881 he resolved to try his fortune in the new world and crossed the Atlantic to the United States in company with Henry Hyman, of Iowa, who was visiting in France at the time and took an interest in the young lad. After arriving in this country Mr. Kahn entered the employ of Moses Bloom, a clothing merchant of Iowa City, in whose service he remained from 1881 until 1888. He then became an employe of Sol Bloom, a brother of Moses Bloom, working in his store in Sturgis, 'South Dakota, until 1890, when he was transferred to Mr. Bloom's store at Deadwood, South Dakota. There he continued until December, 1892, at which time he came to Sheridan, Wyoming, to take charge of the store which had been opened the previous month by the Bloom Shoe & Clothing Company, and for the past twenty-five years he has conducted the business and has built up the largest clothing and shoe trade in Sheridan. He is considered one of the most prominent merchants and business men of the city. He has shaped the policy of the house and has made it an institution of fair dealing and of earnest effort to please the patrons, ever recognizing the fact that satisfied customers are the best advertisement. Extending his efforts into other fields, he became one of the organizers of the Citizens State Bank in 1912. He was made a member of its board of directors and in 1914 was elected to the presidency of the institution. He also largely directs the policy of the bank and has ever displayed cognizance of the fact that the bank which most carefully safeguards the interests of depositors is the one most worthy of patronage and support. The success of the bank is attributable in no small measure to his efforts and business discernment. He is a man of keen sagacity and of indefatigable energy and carries forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes.
In 1899 Mr. Kahn was united in marriage to Miss Bertha C. Kutcher, a daughter of Theodore Kutcher, of Sheridan, who has now passed away. Mr. and Mrs. Kahn have one son, Albert B.
Fraternally Mr. Kahn is connected with Sheridan Lodge, No. 9, K. P.; and Sheridan Lodge, No. 520, B. P. 0. E. He is also a member of the Sheridan Commercial Club and is interested in all of its well defined plans for the upbuilding of the city, for the advancement of its commercial connections and for the upholding of its standards of citizenship and of civic progress. His entire life has been actuated by a spirit of advancement and the determination which led him to sever home ties and seek the opportunities of the new world has remained one of his salient characteristics and has carried him forward to most important business connections.