He helped B'nai B'rith District #2 establish the Jewish Orphan Asylum in Cleveland and raised funds for it by pushing a one dollar capitation tax on members and organizing women's groups in nine cities.
In order to help spread his ideas and fight against an anti-Semitic press that opposed him, he began unofficially sponsoring the semi-weekly German-language paper Roumanische Post in April 1871, which ran for two years and proved costly for his resources.
His efforts were supported by Secretary of State Fish, although the Romanian government opposed him and after he wrote a letter in 1872 that proposed the Jews immigrate to America, they sought to embarrass him by encouraging emigration.
He planned to leave Romania and the Consulship in 1875, with the hope of receiving a higher diplomatic office like the Consul Generalship of Constantinople, although he stayed several more months during the Great Eastern Crisis.
He instead accepted an appointment as Consul at Lyons, France, serving in that position under the successive administrations of Presidents Hayes, Garfield, and Arthur.
[7] The funeral took place in Temple Israel of Harlem, with Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes conducting the service and Maurice H. Harris and Adolph Sanger paying tribute to him.
The pallbearers were Julius Bien, Myer S. Isaacs, Adolph Sanger, Adolphus Solomons, David T. Hays, Michael H. Cardozo, Kiliaen van Rensselaer, and M. M. Davis.
His funeral was attended by, among other people, The Jewish Messenger editor Abram S. Isaacs, Philip Cowen of The American Hebrew, United Hebrew Charities president Henry Rice, ex-Coroner Moritz Ellinger, ex-United States Counsel to Japan N. J. Newwitter, Counsel General of Guatemala Jacob Baiz, General Thomas Ewing Jr., William Perry Fogg, Josephus Flavius Holloway, General Wager Swayne, Rabbi Alexander Kohut, Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler, multiple relatives (including Cyrus Sulzberger), and representatives from a large number of associations.