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Goldschmid was a real estate speculator and the owner of a successful "fancy goods" shop - there are many notices in the Washington Post RE: his buying / selling lots and houses in NW D.C. from the mid-1880s onward - e.g.:



His shop was originally located at 812 Seventh St., NW, and later moved to 1007-1009 F Street, NW (see "Mr. R. Goldschmid's New Store", 11/11/88 Post, p. 6.) It was eventually bought by Woodward and Lothrop, who built their flagship store on the site.

Goldschmid died on 1/5/97 - his detailed Post obituary (1/5/97, p. 3) reports that he was born in Prague on 1/23/47, and had lived in Chicago and New Orleans before coming to D.C. at age 21. The Post also covered his funeral (1/7/97, p. 7) and burial at Adas Israel Cemetery. Goldschmid was a member of the still-extant Washington Hebrew Congregation.

He and Mathilde had 4 children, including a daughter that married into the Sonneborn family (see the obit - Henry Sonneborn was also one of Goldschmid's pallbearers.) Per the Post, the family lived for many years at 1210 N Street, NW, which has since been razed.

It does not appear that there were any other Rudolph Goldschmids or R. Goldschmids active in business in D.C. at the time.

I haven't been able to find any additional information about, or a date of death for, Mathilde yet.

rockcreek, Unfortunately, we don't have any information about Mathilde, either. our records show that: the relationship to the Sonneborn family was a bit too far removed for her to be included in the long bound genealogy books one of the Sonneborns put together in the 1990s. Her daughter married into the family. Here is her relation: Presumably, the daughter of Rudolf Goldschmid and Mathilde Kopper, was Camille Katherine Goldschmid, b July 20 1875 in Washington DC, died Nov 19, 1961 in Baltimore, MD She married Siegmund Bacharach Sonneborn, b April 14, 1872 in Breidebach Germany, died Sep 19, 1940 in Baltimore MD thank you for your information about Mr. Goldschmid!

"Emma Calvé, born Rosa Emma Calvet (15 August 1858 – 6 January 1942), was a French operatic soprano. Calvé was probably the most famous French female opera singer of the Belle Époque. Hers was an international career, and she sang regularly at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, and the Royal Opera House, London." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Calv%C3%A9

Wow that is awesome!

yeah, especially considering there were no steroids back then. At least I think there weren't.

he looks like a marble statue - possibly from the lack of fake tan and baby oil that todays muscle-men would be sporting

Eugene Sandow was the most amazing and the greatest bodybuilder that ever lived! (Take that, modern athletes on steroids!)

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