Moritz Loth

Moritz Loth (29 December 1832 – 18 February 1913) was a Moravian-born Jewish-American businessman and an early leader of Reform Judaism.

Shortly afterwards, he accepted an offer from Lord Dudley Stuart, who on behalf of Napoleon and Franz Joseph I of Austria gave free passage and four pounds to any revolutionary republicans who would emigrate to America.

[2] Loth settled in Hartford, Connecticut, where he opened a dry goods store and speculated in local bank currency.

He drafted the Free Port of Entry bill, which made every interior city equal to a seaport, and he helped secure its passage through Congress with an editorial-writing campaign.

The classes were initially held in the Plum Street Temple, and he helped raise funds for the College's first building, which was dedicated in 1881.

[4] He personally collected over $50,000 for the creation of the College, its original endowment, and gave a lot of valuable books to its library.

Rabbi Louis Grossmann of the Plum Street Temple conducted his funeral service in the chapel at the United Jewish Cemetery at Walnut Hills, where he was buried.