Notes for Jacob Leander LOOSE

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Notes for Jacob Leander LOOSE

LOOSE Jacob L manufacturer b Franklin Co Pa June 17 1850 s Isaac and Scholl Loose removed to Sangamon Co 111 1860 ed schools of Franklin Co Pa and Decatur 111 High School m 1878 Ella daughter of Jonas Clark of Carthage Mo leaving school clerk for short
time in drv poods house Decatur 111 later at Chelopa Kns clerk In a dry goods store conducted by 2 of his brothers as DA Loose & Co interest of 1 brother firm becoming DA fc JL Loose established branch at Joplin Mo partnership dissolved soon after
elder taking Missouri business while he conducted Kansas business In 1882 with brother JS Loose bought controlling interest in Cork Cracker and Confectionery Co Kansas City changed 1889 to Loose Bros Mfg Co up large business which he with other biscuit
manufacturers consolidated as Am Biscuit and Mfg Co Incorporated May 15 1890 of which he was pres for 7 years until he retired and went to Europe Afterward business was merged into Nat Biscuit Co After long rest established in conjunction with brother
JS and others bakeries in competition with Nat Biscuit Co at Kansas City St Louis Dallas Minneapolis and other places as Loose Wiles Cracker and Candv Co of which Is pres Clubs Chicago Union League Midlothian Washington Park Chicago also Kansas City
and Kansas City Country Kansas City Office The Rookery Residence Auditorium Annex [The book of Chicagoans: a biographical dictionary of leading living men of ...by John William Leonard]
Created the "Jacob L. Loose Million Dollar Charity Fund" for the needy of
Kansas City.

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