Excerpt from The Autobiography and Reminiscences of S. Pollak, St. Louis, Mo
My parents’ names Were Jacob and Sarah Pollak, both Bohemian by birth. Father was a hightoned, honorable and much honored and successful merchant. He dealt largely and chiefly in wool, which was consigned to him in thousands of bales from Hungary. He had a large establishment, employing several hundred men in picking, assorting, baling and compressing the wool ready for transporta tion to Leipzig, the greatest mart for all staple products in Europe at that time. The transportation was made in very large wagons, with broad-tired wheels, and drawn by twelve to twenty-four horses, according to the grade on the most beautiful turnpike roads. He was very prosperous in business, but a great invalid, suffering from a cancer in his stomach. He died in Carlsbad in 1826. He was an inveterate chess player. He was playing a game of chess with his physician when he died.
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