Sallie Weinberg Lewenthal’s Bakery

Sallie Weinberg Lewenthal (1856-1904) was born in Charleston, South Carolina, to Bet Weinberg, a Prussian Jewish immigrant, and Fannie Weinberg, a Bavarian Jewish immigrant. By 1880, she was keeping house in the Darlington township household of her widowed, older brother, Abram Weinberg (born ca. 1846), with his four children. In 1881, she married Prussian-born Jewish Darlingtonian, Philip Lewenthal (born ca. 1847), in Charleston. By 1887, the couple had moved to Georgetown where Sallie Weinberg Lewenthal opened a store on Front Street selling baked goods, china, fine linens, and other merchandise. Her business helped to support the family in the 1890s and early 1900s. In 1904, Sallie Weinberg Lewenthal unexpectedly passed away; her store closed following her death.