JULES SEMON BACHE, senior member of the firm of J. S. Bache & Company, bankers and brokers, was born in New York City, son of Semon Bache and Elizabeth (Van Praag) Bache.
He was educated at Charlier Institute, New York, and in Frankfort, Germany. He entered business in 1876, spending three years with his father's firm, after which he joined the banking and brokerage house of Leopold Cahn & Company. In 1892 the business was reorganized as J. S. Bache & Company, Mr. Cahn remaining as special partner for some years.
Under the able guidance of its senior the house of J. S. Bache & Company has become one of the representative banking and brokerage concerns of the country. It has member ships in the New York Stock Exchange, Philadelphia and Chicago Stock Exchanges, the New York Cotton, Coffee, and Produce Exchanges, Chicago Board of Trade, and the New Orleans and Liverpool Cotton Exchanges; and maintains branch offices at Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, Troy, Saratoga Springs, Montreal, Atlantic City and Bar Harbor. Its private wire system is most extensive and connects with the important financial centres. [sic]
Mr. Bache is a director in the National Bank of Cuba, International Banking Corporation, Empire Trust Company, New Amsterdam Casualty Company, Anniston City Land Company, Oakland Bayside Realty Company, New River Collieries Company, Matanzas Railway and Warehouse Company, and other corporations in the United States and Cuba; and is a member of the New York, Lawyers, and The Lambs Clubs, and Automobile Club of America.
~ History of the City of New York, 1609-1909, by John William Leonard, Copyright 1910, Page 519
You can visit the memorial page for Jules Semon Bache.
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