Lots of Lehmans : the family of Mayer Lehman of Lehman Brothers : remembered by his descendants

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by  Libo, Kenneth

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The Family of Mayer Lehman
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Remembered by His Descendants
Lots of Lehmans
What was it like to grow up with all of the
rights, responsibilities, and privileges accorded
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one ofAmerica's most outstanding families the
Lehmans of Lehman Brothers? In addition to
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the creme de la creme ofWall Street are
York Governor (and, later. Senator) Herbert
Lehman, for whom Lehman CoUege is named;
United States Secretary of the Treasury Henry
Morgenthau ChiefJudge ofNewYork State
Jr.;
Court of Appeals Irving Lehman; Manhattan
DistrictAttorney Robert Morgenthau;NewYork
Congressman Jonathan Bingham; Ambassador
John L. Loeb Jr.; Arthur Goodhart, the iirst
American master of an Oxford University col-
lege; plus philanthropists and supporters of the
arts too numerous to mention.
What it w—as Hke to live in a rarified Germ—an
Jewish world the world of"Our Crowd" ^is
vividly portrayed here in the words and pictures
of the descendants of Mayer Lehman, the
youngest ofthree GermanJewish brothers who
came to America from Bavaria and in 1850
formed Lehman Brothers, a mercantile goods
company in Montgomery, Alabama. After mov-
ing to New York, Lehman Brothers helped
found the NewYork Cotton Exchange and went
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The MayerLehmanfamily in Tarrytown, NewYork, c. 1888. Front row, kneeUng:Herbert (left) next to Irving. In the
secotid row seated (left to right):Hattie Lehman Goodhart holding daughterHelen, MayerLehman withgrandson
Howard Goodhart, Babette withgrandsonAllan Lehman, Settle Lehman Fatman with daughterMargaret. Back row
(left to right): Philipf. Goodhart, Harriet Lehman (Sigmund's wife), Sigmund M. Lehman, Clara Lehman (later Clara
Lehman Limburg), Morris Fatman, Arthur Lehman. (Herbert H. Lehman Suite & Papers, Columbia University)
Lots of Lehmans
The Family of Mayer Lehman
Lehman
of Brothers
Remembered by His Descendants
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Edited with Introduction Notes by Kenneth Libo
Foreword
William L. Bernhard andJohn L. LoebJr.
Afterword
June Rossbach Bingham Birge
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Table of Contents
Foreword vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: The Lehmans,A Family and a Firm 2
Chapter One: Mayer Lehman & Babette Neugass Lehman 27
ChapterTwo: Sigmund M. Lehman & Harriet M. Lehman Lehman 49
ChapterThree: Hattie Lehman Goodhart & Philip Goodhart 69
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Chapter Four: Settie Lehman Fatman & Morris Fatman 89
Chapter Five: Clara Lehman Limburg & Richard Limburg 115
Chapter Six:Arthur Lehman & Adele Lewisohn Lehman 137
Chapter Seven: Irving Lehman & Sissie Straus Lehman 185
ChapterEight: Herbert Lehman & EdithAltschul Lehman 219
Afterword 283
Contributors Wlw'sWIio 299
Appendix One: Reader's Guide to the World ofthe Mayer Lehman Family 313
Appendix Two: Descendants ofMayer and Babette Lehman 329
Index 351
Lots ofLehmans:
The Family ofMayer Lehman ofLehman Brothers
Remembered by His Descendants
Editedwith Introduction & Notes Kenneth Libo
FOREWORX) William L. Bernhard andJohn L. LoebJr.
Afterword June Rossbach Bingham Birge
Contributors (in alphabetical order)
Dorothy L.Bernhard Sir Philip Goodhart Peter Limburg
RobertA. Bernhard LordWilliam Howard Goodhart Arthur L. Loeb
William L. Bernhai'd John D. Gordan III Frances L. Loeb
Jonathan B. Bingham Phyllis Goodhart Gordan John L. LoebJr.
June Rossbach BinghamBirge Joan Morgenthau Hirschhorn John L. Loeb Sr.
Stephen Birmingham PeterJosten EileenJosten Lowe
Ann Loeb Bronfman Wendy Lehman Lash William Mayer
Helen L. Buttenwieser Adele Lewisohn Lehman Henry Morgenthau III
Lawrence B.Buttenwieser Arthur Lehman Robert M. Morgenthau
PaulA. Buttenwieser Babette Neugass Lehman Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Peter L. Buttenwieser EdithAltschul Lehman Camilla Master Rosenfeld
Judith Loeb Chiara Herbert Lehman Isadore Rosenfeld
Julius Edelstein Irving Lehman Mabel Limburg Rossbach
Carolin Flexner Mayer Lehman DeborahJaneWise Sheridan
Gabrielle Forbush Grin Lehman Irving Lehman Straus
Peter Friedman Penelope Lehman Louise Blumenthal Sulzberger
Hans Gerst WendyVanderbilt Lehman DuaneTananbaum
Ann Straus Gerder Marjorie Lewisohn Peter LehmanWise
A. Myles Limburg