State ex rel. Kaplan v. Kuhn

Jacob H. Kaplan was born in Germany, December 28, 1874. In 1886 he came with his parents to the United States. His father took up his residence in the city of Buffalo, N. Y., opened a furnishing goods store and became a naturalized citizen. Ihe relator says that he had from childhood cherished the purpose of following the ministry and becoming a rabbi; that about a year before he came to Cincinnati, he heard of this city as a center of reformed Judaism, and of the educational advantages offered here in the high schools, university of Cincinnati and the Hebrew Union College.

In 1894 the relator…