Adolphus Solomons

While working abroad, he visited a Jewish ward in a Frankfurt hospital and became inspired to establish a similar institution in New York.

After returning home he became a member of a committee that arranged a ball in Niblo's Garden which raised funds that went to what would become Mt.

In 1871, when the capital had its own government, he became chairman of ways and means committee of the District of Columbia House of Representatives.

A leading member of the local Jewish community, he took an active part in every inauguration ceremony between Abraham Lincoln and William Howard Taft.

He was also an honorary trustee and general agent of the Baron de Hirsch Fund, central committee member and American treasurer of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, acting president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, a charter member of the New York Protectory for Jewish Children, acting president of the Providential Aid Society and Charities of the District of Columbia, a founder and president of the Night Lodging House Association of the District of Columbia, vice-president of the Sanitary Aid Society of New York, vice-president of the New Era Club, and treasurer of the Columbia Street Sewing and Religious Classes.