Legal documents, 1901 ; 1902.

Seligman (Family : Seligman, Joseph, 1819-1880)

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Family of Jewish merchant and banker, Joseph Seligman (1819-1880), who was born in Baiersdorf, Germany, and emigrated to the United States at the age of eighteen. After settling in New York City Seligman was originally a peddler and with his brothers founded a clothing and import firm. Later he established the investment banking house of J. & W. Seligman & Co. with his brother, William. As well as New York, Seligman had branches in San Francisco, New Orleans, London, Paris and Frankfurt. ...

Warburg, Felix Moritz, 1871-1937

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Felix M. Warburg was a prominent investment banker and philanthropist. Born in Hamburg, Germany, Warburg came to the United States in 1894. From 1896 he was with the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, New York. Warburg was an active supporter of various charities, including the New York Foundation, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee the Jewish Welfare Board, Institute of Musical Art, Teachers College, and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Warburg founded the American Friends of the Hebre...

Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940

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Cyrus Adler graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1883. He later received the first American Ph.D. in Semitics from Johns Hopkins University. He taught Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins from 1884 to 1893. In 1877 he was appointed assistant curator of the section of Oriental antiquities in the United States National Museum, and had charge of an exhibit of biblical archaeology at the centennial exposition of the Ohio valley in 1888. He was a commissioner for the world's Columbian ex...

Guggenheim, Simon, 1867-1941

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John Simon Guggenheim (December 30, 1867 – November 2, 1941) was an American businessman, politician and philanthropist. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Colorado in the U.S. Senate from 1907 to 1913. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he attended Central High School and the Peirce School of Business Administration before settling in Pueblo, Colorado, where he worked as the chief ore buyer for his father's mining and smelting operation, M. Guggenheim's Sons. Guggenheim moved ...

Marshall, Louis, 1856-1929

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American Jewish communal leader, lawyer. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1900-1929]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122516821 Lawyer, civic and communal leader, civil rights advocate, labor union meditator, and philanthropist, of New York, N.Y. From the description of Papers, 1891-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70925069 Prominent Jewish-American lawyer and philanthropist. From the description of Correspondence, 1916-1929 [microform...

Straus family.

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Loeb family.

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Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923

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Mayer Sulzberger was born in Heidelsheim, Baden, Germany on June 22, 1843. His family emigrated to the United States in 1849, and settled in Philadelphia. Sulzberger attended the Central High School of Philadelphia and Crittenden's. College, and later apprenticed in the law office of Moses Aaron Dropsie, a prominent Philadelphia attorney. Sulzberger was a member of Congregation Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia's oldest and most prestigious Jewish congregation. Sul...

Untermyer family.

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Loeb, James

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Lehman family.

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Lewisohn, Leonard

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Leonard Lewisohn is a Lecturer and Iran Heritage Foundation Fellow in Persian and Sufi Literaure at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. He has written widely on Persian poetry, and collaborated with Robert Bly to publish Angels knocking on the tavern door : thirty poems of Hafez (Harper Collins, 2008). From the guide to the Leonard Lewisohn collection of Robert Bly poetry translation materials, 1990-1992, 2002-2003, 2008-2009, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Literary ...

Schiff, Jacob H. 1947-1920.

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Henry, Philip S.

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Solomons, Adolphus S. (Adolphus Simeon), 1826-1910

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Adolphus Simeon Solomons (b. 1826, New York City-d. 1910), helped establish the American Red Cross, organizing the first training school for nurses in Washington, D.C. and the Washington Night Lodging-House Association. He was an officer of the Provident Aid Society and the Emergency Hospital of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In New York, he helped organize Mt. Sinai Hospital and the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids. He was the founder of the Jewish Protectory and Aid ...

Sulzberger family.

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Bloomingdale family.

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Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Endowment Fund.

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The Jewish Theological Seminary was founded in 1886 but after the death in 1897 of Sabato Morais, its first president, it began to founder. In 1901 Cyrus Adler, then a faculty member, eventually the Seminary's president, convinced Jacob Schiff and other members of the New York German-Jewish community to endow the institution for $200,000 and later raise the sum to $500,000. With this support the Seminary was reorganized in 1902 and Solomon Schechter arrived to head it the same year. ...

Guggenheim, Daniel, 1856-1930

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Morgenthau Family

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