[1][2] Abram M. Rothschild was born to a Jewish family in 1853 in Nordstetten (today a district of Horb am Neckar), Kingdom of Württemberg, the youngest child in a family of thirteen.

[1][3] In 1856, he immigrated to Davenport, Iowa where he joined his brother, Emmanuel, who had founded a retail store.

[1] In 1881, they liquidated their retail operations and went solely into clothing manufacturing with their company, the Palace Clothing Company; Abram served as president and built production facilities in a number of cities.

[1] He served as a director of the Columbian Exposition and Vice President of the National Bank of the Republic.

[2] Rothschild committed suicide by revolver on July 28, 1902, in Chicago.