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Hey guys!
I have been doing some research into my family tree and found that I am related to the owner of the E. Kleiner & Co maker of cigars. Through searching for some related names I found some tobacco trade journals from around 1910-1920. I think I have run into some of this before by searching for my family name but at the time I had no idea it was actually related till I started connecting the dots, so this is pretty neat news to me.

They produced a few brands including Lord Macaulay, Marie Antoinette, Sam Houston.

I'm just curious if anyone has run into any of these brands, or collected any of the boxes/artwork etc. I might be looking to obtain some memorabilia or any extra info about the company if somebody knows any good sources.


 
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Just stumbled upon this obituary in a tobacco journal (Forgive the computer generated text typos). It looks like they had bought a factory in PA at one point, and spread out to Michigan (I think there are still branches of my family there I might not know).

E. KLEINER DIES SUDDENLY

xMANUEL E. KLEINER, president of E.
Kleiner & Company, manufacturers of the
''Marie Antoinette," ''Girard" and other well-
known cigar brands, passed away suddenly at
his home in New York City, on May 1st, following a
lieart attack.

Mr. Kleiner has been subject to heart attacks for
several months, but was able to put in a portion of each
day in his office up to a few weeks ago, when he went
to a health resort in New York State in an effort to
regain his health. He was, however, unable to with-
stand the treatment prescribed there and returned to
his home after a short stay.

Mr. Kleiner has been associated with the cigar in-
dustry in New York City for a period of approximately
forty years, having started a small shop of his own
when he was about twenty years of age. After work-
ing his trade up to a fair-sized business, he became
associated with his brother-in-law and established the
lirm of E. Kleiner & Company, as a partnership. The
l)artnership was dissolved in 1915 and the business in-
corporated under the same name, and in 192G the busi-
ness was reorganized.

The business of E. Kleiner & Company will be
continued with the remaining officers, which are : Wil-
liam Friedberger, vice-president; Julian Kosencrans,
secretary, and Paul Olsen, treasurer, until a successor
to Mr. Kleiner can be elected.

Funeral services were held on Thursday, May 3,
with interment in Mount Zion Cemetery. He was sixty
years of age.

He is survived by his widow, two daughters, two
sisters, and one brother, Anthony Kleiner, of the Mas-
terpiece Cigar Company, of Grand Rapids, Mich.​
 
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