Charles E. Rosenbaum

Charles E. Rosenbaum was a prominent businessman in Little Rock in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Rosenbaum was the son of German immigrants Jacob and Caroline (Obert) Rosenbaum. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, attended school there until he turned thirteen, but then had to find employment upon the death of his father. He found work for three years in local government, working for the St. Louis Collector's Office and the Weighing Department. He then spent three years working as an "office boy" at a private firm, rising to the level of chief bookkeeper. He then spent eighteen months as cashier and bookkeeper for the Union Pressed Brick Works. For several years thereafter he found similar employment with the local branch of the Atlas Engine Works. He also began traveling as a salesman for the firm. When the assets of Atlas Engine were purchased by the N. O. Nelson Manufacturing Company, Rosenbaum stayed on to handle daily business. In 1883 Rosenbaum set up shop in Little Rock as local representative to both the Atlas Engine Works and the N. O. Nelson Manufacturing Company.

Rosenbaum was a member of the St. Louis Lodge, Knights of Honor, and Damon Lodge No. 3, Knights of Pythias as also Magnolia Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Union Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Hugh de Payne Commandery No. 1. He and his wife Ida M. (Havlin) Rosenbaum attended the Congregational Church.

References

• Goodspeed's History of Pulaski County, Arkansas (1889).