Died at North Long Branch.
Immigrated to the United States in 1846 (13 years old).
Julius and his brothers were merchants and started the company "Hammerslough Bros. Clothing" and opened up locations in New York, Illinois and Missouri.
Julius was friends with POUS Abraham Lincoln, the following are inserts from the publication "Abraham Lincoln and the Jews":
Unlike many 19th Century American Christians, Abraham Lincoln considered many Jews his friends. The first Jew whom Lincoln might have befriended was Julius Hammerslough, a young store owner in the Illinois state capitol of Springfield....
By all accounts, Hammerslough was a proud Jew. As a young man he’d served as secretary of Baltimore’s Hebrew Assistance Society. In 1865, when his new home town of Springfield built its first synagogue, Hammerslough served as its president. At a time when Jews were viewed with suspicion, Lincoln treated Hammerslough as an equal. Once Lincoln became president, Hammerslough was a frequent guest at the White House. Hammerslough died in 1908; his obituary in the New York Times described him as a “warm friend of Abraham Lincoln”.
Contributor: Deborah Forsberg (49656921)
Immigrated to the United States in 1846 (13 years old).
Julius and his brothers were merchants and started the company "Hammerslough Bros. Clothing" and opened up locations in New York, Illinois and Missouri.
Julius was friends with POUS Abraham Lincoln, the following are inserts from the publication "Abraham Lincoln and the Jews":
Unlike many 19th Century American Christians, Abraham Lincoln considered many Jews his friends. The first Jew whom Lincoln might have befriended was Julius Hammerslough, a young store owner in the Illinois state capitol of Springfield....
By all accounts, Hammerslough was a proud Jew. As a young man he’d served as secretary of Baltimore’s Hebrew Assistance Society. In 1865, when his new home town of Springfield built its first synagogue, Hammerslough served as its president. At a time when Jews were viewed with suspicion, Lincoln treated Hammerslough as an equal. Once Lincoln became president, Hammerslough was a frequent guest at the White House. Hammerslough died in 1908; his obituary in the New York Times described him as a “warm friend of Abraham Lincoln”.
Contributor: Deborah Forsberg (49656921)
Died at North Long Branch.
Immigrated to the United States in 1846 (13 years old).
Julius and his brothers were merchants and started the company "Hammerslough Bros. Clothing" and opened up locations in New York, Illinois and Missouri.
Julius was friends with POUS Abraham Lincoln, the following are inserts from the publication "Abraham Lincoln and the Jews":
Unlike many 19th Century American Christians, Abraham Lincoln considered many Jews his friends. The first Jew whom Lincoln might have befriended was Julius Hammerslough, a young store owner in the Illinois state capitol of Springfield....
By all accounts, Hammerslough was a proud Jew. As a young man he’d served as secretary of Baltimore’s Hebrew Assistance Society. In 1865, when his new home town of Springfield built its first synagogue, Hammerslough served as its president. At a time when Jews were viewed with suspicion, Lincoln treated Hammerslough as an equal. Once Lincoln became president, Hammerslough was a frequent guest at the White House. Hammerslough died in 1908; his obituary in the New York Times described him as a “warm friend of Abraham Lincoln”.
Contributor: Deborah Forsberg (49656921)
Immigrated to the United States in 1846 (13 years old).
Julius and his brothers were merchants and started the company "Hammerslough Bros. Clothing" and opened up locations in New York, Illinois and Missouri.
Julius was friends with POUS Abraham Lincoln, the following are inserts from the publication "Abraham Lincoln and the Jews":
Unlike many 19th Century American Christians, Abraham Lincoln considered many Jews his friends. The first Jew whom Lincoln might have befriended was Julius Hammerslough, a young store owner in the Illinois state capitol of Springfield....
By all accounts, Hammerslough was a proud Jew. As a young man he’d served as secretary of Baltimore’s Hebrew Assistance Society. In 1865, when his new home town of Springfield built its first synagogue, Hammerslough served as its president. At a time when Jews were viewed with suspicion, Lincoln treated Hammerslough as an equal. Once Lincoln became president, Hammerslough was a frequent guest at the White House. Hammerslough died in 1908; his obituary in the New York Times described him as a “warm friend of Abraham Lincoln”.
Contributor: Deborah Forsberg (49656921)
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