[T1S1] son of German immigrants; siblings names and birth order; charter members, Rodef Shalom Temple; father, Morris Kaufmann, works as a peddler; opens a dry goods store on Carson Street in the South Side of Pittsburgh with his brothers; family genealogy; business is bought out by Gimbels Department Store before WWI; father's education; training for business at Jordan Marsh Store in Boston; military service during WWI; early medical care; living with brother Edgar after father's death; courtship and marriage; birth of children; recollections of peddling; early locations of the business.
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Identifier
pitt:ais196440.230_t1s1
Relation
ais196440.230
"Kaufmann, Oliver M. - December 16, 1977" Metadata
Metadata Details
Title
Kaufmann, Oliver M. - December 16, 1977
Creator
National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Pittsburgh Section
Description
Oliver M. Kaufmann, a businessman and philanthropist who worked in his family's department store; year of birth, 1898. [T3S5] clarification of some issues surrounding an interview with I. D. Wolf, Jr. in February of 1978; the Kaufmanns' relationship with
Contributor
Kaufmann, Oliver M. (interviewee), Egert, Dana;Abram, Shirley (interviewer), University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
1977-12-16
Type
oral histories (literary genre), Sound
Identifier
pitt:ais196440.230
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