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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in Loeb Family Papers #5142-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Jay Wiener of San Francisco, Calif., in 8 December 2003 (Acc. 99676). Addition received from Carwile Guy in March 2015 (Acc. 102196).

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Processed by: Jesse Brown, December 2004

Encoded by: Jesse Brown, December 2004

Updated because of addition, October 2018

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• Canton (Miss.)--Social life and customs.
• Family--Louisiana--Social life and customs.
• Family--Mississippi--Social life and customs.
• Genealogy.
• Gross, Mary.
• Jewish families--Louisiana.
• Jewish families--Mississippi.
• Jews--France--Alsace.
• Jews--Southern States--Social life and customs.
• Jews--United States.
• Loeb family.
• Loeb, Jacob.
• Reichshoffen (France)--Social life and customs.
• Shreveport (La.)--Social life and customs.
• Wiener, Jay Lucien.

• Samuel G. Wiener, Sr., Architectural Records (#83); William B. Wiener Papers (#522); Bill Wiener, Jr., Papers (#381) at the Noel Memorial Library Archives, Louisiana State University Shreveport.

Jacob Loeb was born in Reichshoffen in the Alsace region of France. He emigrated to the United States after the United States Civil War, having spent the war years in Mexico. He married Mary Gross on 2 January 1866 and settled in Canton, Miss. Jacob Loeb and Mary Gross had ten children, many of whom settled in Shreveport, La. As of the printing of the family history in June 1998, there were more than 120 living descendents of Jacob Loeb and Mary Gross. Notable descendants include brothers Samuel Gross Wiener and William Wiener, architects who were among the earliest proponents of the International Style of architecture in America, and Jacques Wiener, Jr., a judge on the United States Fifth District Court of Appeals.

The collection includes two volumes of family history materials relating to the Loeb family, a southern Jewish family descending from Jacob Loeb and Mary Gross of Canton, Miss. The contents, compiled and edited by Jay Lucien Wiener, include copies of photographs of members of the Loeb family and newspaper clippings relating events in the lives of Loeb family members, many of whom settled in Shreveport, La. Also included are written reminiscences from living descendants of the Loeb family about experiences growing up in the family and information on their lives at the time of the printing of the compilation in 1998. At the end of the second volume there is information on Reichshoffen, France, Jacob Loeb's birthplace, as well as entries from the Loeb family Haggadot detailing Passover seders, 1882-1991. Several family trees are also included.