LDS film # 09962913, Excerpts from History of Kentucky, Illustrated, 1885, by
Battle, Perrin, and Kniffin.  Appeared in the Central City Messenger and
Times-Argus, Central City, Kentucky, in seven installments during May, June,
and July 1959.

Charles Mendel, Born in Germany, Operated Store in Greenville in '85

CHARLES MENDEL, Muhlenberg County, was born in Germany, January 13, 1855, and
is the sixth of seven children born to Alexander and Eva (Kahn) Mendel,
natives of France and Germany, respectively.  Charles received a good
education in his native country, which he left in October 1869, for the United
States; located in Cromwell, Ohio County, KY, where he was engaged as salesman
in a dry goods house for his brother for three years.  In 1873 he engaged in
business for himself in Morgantown, Butler County, where he remained until
1880, then located in Greenville, and has one of the largest dry goods stores
in the county.  He was married September 6, 1882, to Minnie Oppenheimer, of
Owensboro, daughter of J.M. Oppenheimer, a native of Heidelberg, Germany, and
Carrie (Shields) Oppenheimer, of Baltimore, MD.  One child blesses their
union: Raymond I.  Mr. and Mrs. Mandel are members of the Jewish faith.

Mendel Kahn Oppenheimer Shields
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Germany France Ohio Butler MD

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