Abraham Kuhn

Abraham Kuhn (June 20, 1819 – May 30, 1892) was an American merchant and banker of Jewish Germans origins, a founding partner in 1867 of New York City's Kuhn, Loeb & Co., one of the great US investment-banking firms of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Biography Born the son of Simon and Therese Kuhn in Harxheim, a village near Mainz, in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, now part of the Rhineland-Palatinate, Kuhn migrated to New York about 1840, with his brothers Solomon and Max. In 1849, he married Regina Loeb, a sister of his future partner, Solomon Loeb. In 1849 he was earning a living in the US as a peddler. In 1850, he formed a general partnership in a merchandising firm in Lafayette, Indiana, with his brother-in-law Solomon Loeb, and by 1860, they were manufacturers of men's clothing and had a successful dry-goods merchant business in Cincinnati, Ohio. They made their fortune from making and supplying uniforms to the military.

Kuhn's daughter Ida married Eduard Cohen and was the mother of Emilie (Mimi), Sophie, Edwin, and Albert Cohen, but the two sons died in infancy. Emilie (Mimi) married a notable Egyptologist, Ludwig Borchardt. This was a substantial fortune, then exchangeable for 53.7 kilograms of gold.