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Louis Oppenheimer, merchant of Trenton, is a son of Meyer Oppenheimer, who came from Germany to the United States in 1848, landing at New Orleans. Two years later he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he married Rosa Loeb, also a native of Germany, and followed clerking in mercantile establishments for some time. He engaged in the business in Greenville, Ohio, and later in Hickman, Ky., and between the years 1850 and 1860 came to Trenton, Tenn., and opened a small mercantile store in partnership with his brother, Morris Oppenheimer. He became sole proprietor after two years, and increased the business, from time to time, until he now has one of the largest and best establishments of the kind in Gibson County. Since 1876 he has lived retired from active business life, his son, Louis, being manager. He was reared and educated in the county, and for some years acted as traveling salesman for New York and Cincinnati wholesale houses, and was a book-keeper in Cincinnati for some time. In 1875 he married Emma Smiley, daughter of the late Dr. A. H. Smiley. [See sketch.] They have four children: Nellie S., Henry, Ernest T. and Anna Rosa. Mr. Oppenheimer is a conservative Democrat, and is a member of the Masonic, I. O. O. F. and K. of P. fraternities.