Saturday, February 11, 2023

Cotton Brokers: Mohr, Hanemann & Company

 


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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