Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, pp 546-550 [McCracken] LEOPOLD FRIEDMAN, deceased, was born in Germany in the year 1829. He was given a liberal education, in the best schools of Germany, and at the age of twenty-six left his native land for America, to seek his fortune and a home. His father was one of the largest wine merchants of Nuremberg, Germany, but the young man, possessing a good education, and noble ambitions, set out to battle for himself. Upon his arrival in this country, he entered the wholesale dry-goods business in the city of Louisville, Kentucky. When the Civil war came on, this concern having large business relations with the south, suffered heavy losses, by reason of the ravages of the war and the extreme financial depression prevailing at that time. Consequently, at the end of the war, Mr. Friedman found himself with very little resources, but still possessing that spirit of aggressiveness and ambition, and he again became active in business affairs as a member of the firm of Griff & Co., which soon gained a large volume of business, and enjoyed a heavy trade of enormous profits. Having been a wine merchant in his native land, he now turned his attention to a form of business akin to that of his youth. Accordingly, he established a vinegar factory in Louisville, which proved successful. In 1878, being influenced by his son, Joseph L., who had preceded him to Paducah, Kentucky, in 1875, Mr. Friedman came to this city and connected himself with the company under the style of Joseph J. Friedman & Company, and it soon gained a profitable business manufacturing a vinegar that became famous for its high quality. Mr. Friedman remained in charge of this business till his death, which occurred in 1886. His son, Joseph L. Friedman, who had meanwhile been connected with him, assumed full control on his father's death, and successfully conducted the enterprise till 1890, when it was sold to the company now operating it, under the name of the O. L. Gregory Vinegar Company. Mr. Leopold Friedman was highly esteemed by all who knew him. He was genial, kind and considerate; in business dealing, he was fair and just. To his family, he was kind and generous, and in his death there passed away a good citizen, an excellent business man, a faithful friend, a beloved husband and father. Long will he be held in affectionate memory. His good wife survives him, and is well known in Paducah, her friends being numerous. Perhaps no lady of the city is more generously loved and respected than she. She possesses many excellent traits of character, and is both an educated and cultured lady. In her early life, she was noted for almost unsurpassed beauty, grace, and refinement that solicit admiration and reverence. She possesses marked religious sentiment, her religion being that of the Hebrew faith. Friedman Griff Gregory = Germany http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/mccracken/friedman.l.txt