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Occupying a prominent place on the stage of mercantile activity in Milwaukee is Emanuel D. Adler, the treasurer of the wholesale clothing firm of David Adler & Sons. He was born in this city in 1854, two years after his parents, David and Fannie (Newbouerl Adler, arrived in Milwaukee. Both were natives of Austria and after residing for a few years in New York they came to Milwaukee. Extended mention of David Adler is made on another page of this work.

The son, Emanuel D. Adler, is indebted to the public school system for his early educational opportunities. He afterward attended the German-English Academy, also the Milwaukee Academy and the Spencerian Business College. When seventeen years of age he became an active assistant of his father in the clothing trade and through the intervening period has been identified with the firm. When the business was reorganized he and his two brothers were admitted to a partnership under the firm style of David Adler & Sons and following the death of the father, Emanuel D. Adler became treasurer of the company and has since acted in that capacity, while Isaac D. Adler is president and general manager; S. D. and B. P. Adler, vice presidents; and Henry M. Obendorfer, secretary and credit man. The continued growth of the business led to a removal to their present location at Buffalo street and Broadway, where more than double their previous floor space was secured. They do not manufacture goods at this location but use the entire space for store rooms and offices, while their seven manufactories are scattered in various parts of the city. Their trade extends throughout the United States and the house is represented by traveling salesmen in New England, in the Mississippi valley, in the south and in the northwest. Their business has constantly expanded in its scope and today the goods of the Adler bouse are found in almost every section of the country. Those in the service of E. D. Adler regard him more in the light of a friend than as an employer. He never refuses a salesman an interview and it is a well-known fact that no worthy applicant seeks his aid in vain, for he possesses the spirit of true democracy and is ever willing to extend a helping hand.

On the 3rd of May, 1888, Emanuel D. Adler was joined in wedlock to Miss Clara H. Schloss of Detroit, Michigan, and they have become parents of four children: Frederic Emanuel, Helen Theresa, Frances Elsie and Carol Janet.

Mr. Adler gives his political allegiance to the republican party and has held the office of public debt commissioner for five years. He is generally found among the leading spirits in any plan or project instituted to promote the welfare of Milwaukee, withholding his active aid and cooperation from no movement for the city's advancement. He is prominently identified with all charitable organizations and is now serving as vice president of Mount Sinai Hospital. His name is on the membership rolls of the Milwaukee Athletic Club, the Wisconsin Club, and the Oconomowoc Country Club and he is popular in the social circles in which he moves. His business affairs, however, have made him most widely known and aside from his connection with the wholesale clothing trade he is one of the trustees of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company and vice president of the National Straw Works.