Adolph Mannheim (1872-c.1940) was born in Sumter, South Carolina in 1872. His father, German immigrant Henry Mannheim, worked as a tailor, and his mother, English immigrant Catherine Mannheim, kept house. By 1920, Adolph had moved to Orangeburg, South Carolina where he worked as a traveling salesman. That year, an article in Orangeburg newspaper The Times and Democrat listed him as one of the town’s Jewish merchants who donated to the creation of a “South Carolina Memorial.” By 1930, Adolph had stopped peddling goods and was the proprietor of an electric fixture business.