{geni:about_me} Solomon Steindler is most likely the person who, along with many other businessmen in St. Louis Missouri, founded B'nai B'brith congregation in 1849. Solomon Steindler, Ludwig Schwartkopf, Isido Bush. Herman Bloch, Adilph Wachtel and others contributed to this organization.

Reference: Zion in the Valley by Walter Ehrlich, a history of the Jewish population of St. Louis, up to 1900.