A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
Nathan was born Nathan Bachrach in Germany. After immigrating to the United States in 1857, he and his brother Nathan changed their surname to Barnum and moved west to Kansas; Nathan to Newton and Simon to Topeka. The name change may have been to make it easier to do business in the 19th century, as Bachrach is a recognizably Jewish surname. However, even after the name change they were both active in the Jewish community in Kansas.
Bacharach, also Bachrach, is a German surname, mostly Jewish, referring to the medieval town of Bacharach in the Mainz-Bingen district of the Rhineland-Palatinate.
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