| LC control no. | n 85185634 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Schiff, Jacob H. (Jacob Henry), 1847-1920 |
| Variant(s) | Schiff, Jacob Henry, 1847-1920 שיף, יעקב ה. (יעקב הנרי), 1847-1920 Shiff, I︠A︡kov Шифф, Яков |
| Birth date | 1847 |
| Death date | 1920-09-25 |
| Affiliation | Central Trust Co. Western Union Telegraph Company Wells, Fargo & Company Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids Jewish Theological Seminary of America Semitic Museum Harvard University |
| Profession or occupation | Bankers |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | NUCMC data from LOC, Mss. Div. for Morgenthau, H. Papers, 1795-1941 (Jacob H. Schiff) LC data base, 11-4-86 (hdg.: Schiff, Jacob Henry, 1847-1920; usage: Jacob H. Schiff) WwWA, 1897-1942 (Schiff, Jacob Henry; banker; m. Theresa Loeb; firm memb., Kuhn, Loeb & Co.; dir., Central Trust Co., Western Union Telegraph Co., Wells Fargo; pres., Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids; f. Jewish Theol. Sem.; Semitic Museum, Harvard Univ.) Braĭan Gorovit︠s︡. Evreĭskie intellektualy Rossiĭskoĭ Imperii, 2017: p.325 (I︠A︡kov Shiff) The last ships from Hamburg, 2023: CIP galley (Jacob Schiff, managing partner of the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Co., used his immense wealth to encourage and to help Jews to leave Russia; born in the Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt in 1847; attended school until fifteen; studied Torah, the German language, and mathematics; He then worked as an apprentice broker; arrived in New York City on August 6, 1865; first worked for the brokerage firm Frank & Gans, in 1867 started his own brokerage house; naturalized American; returned to Germany to work for the Hamburg branch of the London & Hanseatic Bank; returned to the United States; began working for Kuhn, Loeb & Co.; died September 25, 1920) |
| Associated language | eng ger |
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