Emanuel Lehman

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Emanuel Lehman
Emanuel Lehman, date unknown
Born	Mendel Lehmann (1827-02-15)February 15, 1827 Rimpar, Bavaria
Died	January 10, 1907(1907-01-10) (aged 79) New York City
Nationality	American

Emanuel Lehman (born Mendel Lehmann; February 15, 1827 – January 10, 1907) was a German American banker. The younger brother of Henry Lehman, he was a co-founder of Lehmann Brothers.^[1]

In 1897, he donated $100,000 (equivalent to $2.8 million in 2013) to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York, under the condition "to enlarge and perpetuate its usefullness."^[2]

References

↑ Birmingham, Stephen (1996). Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 0815604114.
↑ "Large Gift To Orphans; Emanuel Lehman Offers $100,000 to the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society". New York Times. February 17, 1897.

Hall, Henry, ed. (1895). America’s Successful Men of Affairs, an Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography. New York: New York Printing Company. pp. 391–392.

v t e Lehman family

Founding generation of Lehman Brothers	Henry Lehman Emanuel Lehman Mayer Lehman

Other notable family members	Arthur Altschul Helen Lehman Buttenwieser Herbert H. Lehman Irving Lehman Philip Lehman Robert Lehman John Langeloth Loeb, Jr.

Financial firms	Lehman Brothers

Authority control	WorldCat LCCN: no2008149715

Persondata
Name	Lehman, Emanuel
Alternative names	Lehmann, Mendel
Short description	American banker of German-Jewish descent
Date of birth	February 15, 1827
Place of birth	Rimpar, Bavaria, German Federation
Date of death	January 10, 1907
Place of death	New York City, New York, USA

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