Lots of Lehmans *- ^.~ • r«»»i -V vV *- ^.i^-.^-'- The Family of Mayer Lehman Lehman of Brothers Remembered by His Descendants Lots of Lehmans What was it like to grow up with all of the rights, responsibilities, and privileges accorded — one ofAmerica's most outstanding families the Lehmans of Lehman Brothers? In addition to New 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 (continued on hackjlap) Lots of Lehmans The Family of Mayer Lehman of Lehman Brothers Remembered by His Descendants f § ^ % % A "^ ^^^\ ^ -r-% 1 ^1 » Vr,i^ ^.^ 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 & Edited with Introduction Notes by Kenneth Libo Foreword William L. Bernhard andJohn L. LoebJr. Afterword June Rossbach Bingham Birge CENTEH gJB>01SH HISIORT CS.1I mi © , Copyright 2007 William L.Bernhard,June Rossbach Bingham Birge,John L.LoebJr. C~wW ' Yi AH rights reserved.No part ofthis book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic ormechanical,includingphotocopying,recording,orby any information storage and retrieval system,without permission in writingfrom the publisher. Published by Center forJewish History Editorand Compiler Kenneth Libo Editorial Consultant Kathy Plotkin MTM Editorial,Design,and Production Services by Publishing,Inc. President ValerieTomaseUi Editorial Coordinator TimAnderson Design and Layout Annemarie Redmond Copyediting Janine Stanley-Dunham Proofreading Zach Gajewski;Paul Scaramazza Genealogyand FamilyTrees by Our LivingTree President Bob Breakstone Genealogist David Kleiman Designer Scott Citron '. Distributed by Syracuse University Press ISBN # 978-0-9792336-0-9 Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication data in progress. Manufacturing supervised byActive Concepts, Inc., N.Y. Printed in Canada 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 J. 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