Newspaper listing of the businesses of David Kreines and Jacob Greenband, The Ogden Standard-Examiner, Sun., May 22, 1921. [Click image to enlarge.]

Business advertisement of Jacob Greenband’s business located on Wall Avenue in the 1922 Polk Directory of Weber County, Utah. [Click image to enlarge.]

Newspaper image of Manya Greenband in celebration of her and Jacob Greenband’s twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, The Ogden Standard-Examiner, Sun., Jan. 11, 1925.

Gravesite of Jacob and Manya Greenband at Aultorest Memorial Park, May 2021.

Jacob Greenband was born May 16, 1877, in Russia. He immigrated to the United States in 1905 and settled in Ogden in 1914 with family. His wife, Manya Bogaslovsky, also referred to as Minnie, was also born in Russia on May 1, 1882. Jacob and Manya married in 1899.[1] They had five children: two sons, Abraham and Edward; and three daughters, Sonia, Sharon, and Olga.[2]

While in Ogden, Jacob became a proprietor and merchant of wholesale fur and wool. The advertisements for his business refer to him as “dealer in hides, pelts, tallow, beeswax, and furs.” He started the Western Hide and Junk Co. in 1916 on Washington Avenue. Jacob also started another fur and wool business, Utah Woof & Hide. Jacob became very well-known and trusted in this business that a competitor, O. M. Runyon, sold his business to Jacob in September 1921.[3] In 1921 he went into a partnership with merchant Joseph Eller to form Eller and Greenband. This store specialized in men’s furnishings and was located at 232 Twenty-Fifth Street. In January 1922, Jacob dissolved the partnership with Joseph Eller, most likely to focus on his fur and wool businesses.[4] Jacob Greenband died after suffering an unspecified illness on September 16, 1932.