Volume 2 of 2. These volumes represent the biographical account of Jacob H. Schiff, the American banker and philanthropist. Written by a very close acquaintance of Schiff, this account of his life is as close to an autobiography as can be without his writing it himself. Schiff was a partner in Kuhn, Loeb and Company, later becoming the head of the firm. He was known for his role with E. H. Harriman against J. P. Morgan and Company and J. J. Hill in the struggle for control of the Northern Pacific Railroad, which later led to the stock market panic of May 9, 1901. His philanthropies included establishing a Semitic Museum at Harvard University, a chair for the study of German culture at Cornell, as well as various hospitals and schools of higher education.
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SCHIFF, as the account of his early education shows, did not have a training which would have predisposed him to a particular interest in education or scholarship, though he obtained the sound and exacting grounding given to a boy in Germany in his day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, United States, Red Cross, Bar Harbor, Great Britain, Zionist Organization, Oscar Straus, American Jewish Committee, Lord Rothschild, President Eliot, Paul Nathan, Zionist Movement, American Jewry, Barnard College, President Roosevelt, Secretary of the Treasury, New Orleans, Secretary of State, Sir Ernest, Baron de Hirsch, Eastern Europe, Fifth Avenue, Louis Marshall, Max Warburg, Removal Office New!
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SCHIFF, as the account of his early education shows, did not have a training which would have predisposed him to a particular interest in education or scholarship, though he obtained the sound and exacting grounding given to a boy in Germany in his day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
war profits tax, free circulating libraries, valued communication, free circulating library, emergency currency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Red Cross, Bar Harbor, Great Britain, Zionist Organization, Oscar Straus, American Jewish Committee, Lord Rothschild, President Eliot, Paul Nathan, Zionist Movement, American Jewry, Barnard College, President Roosevelt, Secretary of the Treasury, New Orleans, Secretary of State, Sir Ernest, Baron de Hirsch, Eastern Europe, Fifth Avenue, Louis Marshall, Max Warburg, Removal Office New!
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