Godfrey Hattenbach
German-American businessman and city founder
About Godfrey Hattenbach
Lived 1813 – 1879 (aged 65–66).
Godfrey Hattenbach (March 13, 1813 – August 12, 1879) was a German-American businessman who is credited with taking part in the founding of three towns.
Personal life and death Hattenbach was born on March 13, 1813, in Darmstadt, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. He married Frances Hattenbach in Baltimore, Maryland, and they had seven children. Hattenbach is said to be the father of Sioux City, Iowa's Jewish community by the Sioux City Journal and the book A History of the Sioux City Jewish Community 1869 – 1969, originally moving there in 1858.
He later raised a hefty amount of funds, and he might have moved back to Cincinnati because of a report of Native Americans invading. He started a cigar manufacturing business in Cincinnati and operated it for three years. Hattenbach then returned to Sioux City.
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Who was Godfrey Hattenbach?
German-American businessman and city founder (1813–1879)
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Godfrey Hattenbach was born in 1813.
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Godfrey Hattenbach died in 1879.
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