Isaac Newton Seligman

Isaac N. Seligman
Born July 10, 1855
New York City
Died September 30, 1917 (aged 62)
Nationality American
Occupation Banker
Spouse(s) Guta Loeb (m. 1883)

Isaac Newton Seligman (July 10, 1855 – September 30, 1917) was an American banker and communal worker.

Early life

Seligman attended Columbia Grammar School and Columbia College, from which he graduated in 1876. He was one of the crew, which won the university eight-oar college race on Saratoga Lake in 1874.

Career

In 1878, after an apprenticeship in the firm of Seligman & Hellman in New Orleans, he joined the New York branch, of which he became head in 1880, on the death of his father Joseph Seligman.

He was connected with almost all the important social reform committees in New York. He was a trustee of nineteen important commercial, financial, and other institutions and societies, including the Munich Life Assurance Company, St. John's Guild, and the McKinley Memorial Association. He was a member of the Committee of Seventy, of Fifteen, and of Nine, each of which attempted at various times to reform municipal government in New York; of the last-named body he was chairman. He was a trustee of Temple Emanu-El and of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, as well as of the United Hebrew Charities, and also a member of the Ethical Culture Society.

He was married to Guta Loeb (1865–1956), daughter of banker Solomon Loeb.

His portrait, three-quarter length seated, was painted by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947) but is now missing. Muller-Ury also painted the portrait of his five-year-old son Joseph L. Seligman (1886–1944) in 1891, which was exhibited in January 1892.

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