Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Baum, Max February 3, 1842 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 133
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

Max Baum, a leading merchant of Uniontown, was born in 
Germany February 3, 1842, and came to the United States in 
1865 and located first in Cumberland, Maryland, where he 
remained for one year-thence to Baltimore, where he remained 
but six months, when he returned to Cumberland, and on 
August 5, 1867, came to Uniontown, Penna, and engaged in the 
clothing business. In January, 1879, he removed to his 
present stand at the corner of Main and Morgantown streets.
    Mr Baum is the oldest merchant clothier at Uniontown, 
and has by close attention to business, never fail courtesy 
and the strictest honesty, gained a host of friends and the 
good will of all who know him, and has established the best 
and largest trade in his line in the county. His store is an 
emporium, which contains a large assortment of the choicest 
clothing and the best goods for manufacturing clothes, and 
all of the appurtenances to the complete outfit of a 
gentleman's toilet.
    Mr Baum is thoroughly Americanized in manner, speech and 
feeling. When he offered himself as a candidate for the 
legislature he carried a great many of the districts of the 
county almost unanimously. He is especially popular with the 
farmers.
    He was married in 1869 to Miss Sarah Rosenbaum of 
Cumberland, Maryland, and has five living children: Rachel 
Baum, Mattie Baum, William Baum, Simon Baum, and Isaac Baum.
    Rachel Baum is married to Louis Hirsch of Cumberland, 
who is engaged in the wool and hide business. The other 
children are at home. Mr Baum is a member of the Free and 
Accepted Masonic society. 

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