COL. EINSTEIN AND M. GUGGENHEIM

Among the several research projects exploring KI’s past is our recognizing the fact that over the years, the membership has included several distinguished personages. Two of the very earliest were Colonel Max Einstein (1822-1906) who served in the Civil War and Meyer Guggenheim (1828-1905) the legendary and highly successful industrialist who began as a Philadelphia peddler. Interestingly, these two may have had more in common than the published histories and biographies have described individually. read more …