Information Regarding H. Muhr's Sons of Philadelphia

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Jacob Muhr was, last week, elected a life member of the Hebrew Educational Society at its annual meeting. Morris Pfaelzer, a retired jobber and retail jeweler, was made a director.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 9th May 1906

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The Muhr factory at Broad and Race streets, will soon be sold out for the purpose of effecting a settlement of the estate of Joseph Muhr, whose insanity demands the change in the business of this prosperous house. It will not be affected in the slightest though so far as its trade and its relations with customers are concerned.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - October 1888

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Jacob Muhr, formerly one of the best known jewelers of the east, and long president of the old house of H. Muhr Sons, Philadelphia, who died about two years ago, leaving a large estate, was a bachelor, and did not clandestinely wed Mrs. Florence Leggett, according to a decision rendered, Monday, by Judge Lamarelle, of the Orphan’s Court, Philadelphia. It will be recalled that Mrs. Leggett put in a claim to a widow’s dower after the death of Mr. Muhr, and her claim was bitterly contested by the Muhr family. The testimony in the case was spicy and the trial lasted about two weeks, during which witnesses were summoned from New York, Pittsburg and other cities, to testify as to the relations existing between Jacob Muhr and Mrs. Leggett. Under the decision, Fanny Muhr, sister, and Philip Muhr, a brother, formerly also with H. Muhr Sons, later in the smelting business, but now a portrait painter, and nephews and nieces, will divide between them about $200,000 of the late Jacob Muhr’s estate. Mrs. Leggett gets nothing from the estate.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 25th March 1908

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Walter Scott Davies, 82, for the past 45 years with M. Sickles & Sons, 904, Chestnut St., died Thursday morning, March 14, after a lingering illness. Prior to his connection with M. Sickles & Sons, he was with the old firm of H. Muhrs Sons. Funeral services were held from the funeral parlors of Kirk & Nice, 6301 Germantown Ave., at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon, March 18. Mr. Davies is survived by his wife, a daughter and a son.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - April 1935

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