Galveston, TX, United States
Isaac H. and Henrietta Kempner House. At the time of his death in 1894 Polish immigrant Harris Kempner, age 57, was a leading Galveston businessman with interests in banking, insurance, railroads, and cotton. Isaac Herbert Kempner, age 21 and the eldest of Harris Kempner's eight children, took over
his father's many businesses. In 1902 Isaac married Henrietta Blum, daughter of a prominent Galveston businessman. Isaac Kempner became an important businessman in his own right and after the devastat
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