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Luis Ober was born in the French department of Alsace in 1837, coming to New York with his parents at the age of fourteen. As a young man he worked in a number of trades- barbering, bookselling, taxidermy, buying and shipping produce- in ... The original of Gloria Victis was honored by being placed in the courtyard of the Hotel de Ville (City Hall) in Paris in 1874. The Gloria Victis at Locke-Ober was positioned in the dining room and became Boston's most famous hat rack. ...