William Mohr was a president of the New York Cotton Exchange and a principle of Mohr, Hanemann & Company with his partner, New Orleans-based Edward Hanemann. William Mohr was of German ancestry, and during World War I was subject to slurs and the estrangement of friends due to the war. He apparently took his own life as a result. My middle name is of German ancestry, and the story passed to me is that that side of my New Orleans-based family took to referring to themselves as French Alsatian rather than as German during WWI.
New York Times, June 22, 1918:
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