Western Hat & Cap Company

Widespread persecution, economic difficulty, and violence against the Jewish population of central and eastern Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries led to an influx of over two million Jewish immigrants to the United States between 1880 and 1920. Isaac “Ike” Liberman came to St. Joseph in 1893 and was a founding member of the Shaare Sholem synagogue, established in 1900 at 6th and Patee Streets. He established the Western Hat and Cap Company in 1905.

Widespread persecution, economic difficulty, and violence against the Jewish population of central and eastern Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries led to an influx of over two million Jewish immigrants to the United States between 1880 and 1920. Isaac “Ike” Liberman came to St. Joseph in 1893 and was a founding member of the Shaare Sholem synagogue, established in 1900 at 6th and Patee Streets. He established the Western Hat and Cap Company in 1905. The company was last located at 205 North 3rd Street in St. Joseph when the building was demolished during the Urban Renewal of the 1970s.