Leopold Adler

Leopold Adler (10 June 1861 – 13 January 1948) was an Austrian businessman based in Savannah, Georgia.

Early life Adler was born in Volyně, Bohemia, Austrian Empire, in 1861 to Moses Adler and Rosie Fischl. His family emigrated to New York when he was a child. His father was in a partnership named Adler & Landauer, with Julius Landauer, at 247 East 28th Street in Manhattan by 1878. He later became a paper stock dealer as a partner in Adler & Liebman. Leopold began his working life at the Altmayer department store.

Career

In 1892 (some sources state 1878, when he would have been 17 years old), Adler moved south to Savannah, Georgia, to become a partner in the city's Altmayer department store, on Savannah's Broughton Street, at its intersection with Bull Street. He later changed the name of the department store to Adler's. Italian native Dominic Paris (1886–1958) owned the beauty department in the store between 1929 and 1948, while Elizabeth Cannon (1903–1984) ran the furniture department between 1939 and 1949. by 1959. The Broughton Street store burned down in 1958. The business expanded to two other locations. The one in the Victory Drive Shopping Center closed first; the one in the Oglethorpe Mall was liquidated in 1985. a German immigrant to Savannah, in 1888. They had five children: Samuel, Melvin, Olga, Rena and Elsie. Hannah died in 1942.