Lehman family

The Lehman family is a prominent family of Jewish-German-American businesspeople who founded the financial firm Lehman Brothers. Some were also involved in American politics. The family traces back to Abraham Lehmann, a cattle merchant in Rimpar, Bavaria, who changed his Yiddish surname Löw (Loeb) to the German Lehmann.

Some of the family members include:^[1]

• Abraham Lehmann, born Abraham Löw, cattle merchant in Rimpar, Bavaria^[2]
  • Henry Lehman (1822–1855), born Hayum Lehmann, founder of H. Lehman, which became Lehman Brothers
  • Emanuel Lehman (1827–1907), born Mendel Lehmann, co-founder of Lehman Brothers, married to Pauline Sondheim (1843–1871), 4 children
    • Milton Lehman
    • Harriet Philip Lehman
    • Evelyn Philip Lehman, married Jules Ehrich, 4 children:^[1]
      • May Ehrich (born 1889)
      • Pauline Ehrich (1893), married Monroe Gutman
      • Dorothy Ehrich (born 1895), married John C. Mayer, 3 children
        • Jane Mayer (born 1919), married Harold Field
        • John Mayer (born 1921), married Dale Shoup, daughter of economist Carl Shoup^[3] and granddaughter of businessman Paul Shoup
        • William Mayer (born 1919), composer, married Meredith Nevins, daughter of historian and journalist Allan Nevins, 3 children
          • Steven Mayer (born 1952)
          • Jane Mayer (born 1955), journalist, married to William B. Hamilton
          • Cynthia Mayer (born 1958)
      • Ruth Ehrich (born 1900), married Ralph Friedman, 2 children
    • Philip Lehman (1861–1947), married to Carrie Lauer (–1937)
      • Pauline Lehman, married to Henry Ickelheimer (1868–1940) of Heidelbach, Ickelheimer & Co.,^[4] 2 children
        • Jean Ickelheimer Stralem, married to Donald Stralem, 1 child^[5]
          • Lynn Stralem^[5]
        • Philip Henry Isles (1912–1989), married to model Lillian Fox, 3 children, divorced,^[6][7] she remarried Stephane Groueff
          • Jill Isles Blanchard, married to Guillermo B. Aguilera, divorced^[8] and remarried to Richard F. Blanchard.^[9]
            • Pauline Aguilera Longano (born 1967), married to Nicholas Longano in 1998^[9]
          • Tina Isles Barney (born 1945), photographer, married to John Joseph Barney in 1966^[10]
          • Philip Henry Isles II, married to Alexandra Moltke (1947–)
            • Adam Isles (1969–), married to Hannah Harrison Bond^[11]
      • Robert Lehman (1891–1969)
  • Mayer Lehman (1830–1897), co-founder of Lehman Brothers, married to Babette Newgass, sister-in-law of Isaias W. Hellman
    • Lisette Lehman Fatman, married to Morris Fatman, clothing manufacturer, 2 children^[12]
      • Margaret Fatman^[12] married to composer Werner Josten
      • Elinor Fatman Morgenthau, married Henry Morgenthau, Jr.,^[12] U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 3 children^[13]
        • Robert M. Morgenthau,^[13] District Attorney for New York County
        • Henry Morgenthau III,^[13] author and television producer, married Ruth Schachter Morgenthau (1931-2006), advisor to President Jimmy Carter, 3 children^[14]
          • Henry (Ben) Morgenthau (1964)^[14]
          • Kramer Morgenthau (1966),^[14] cinematographer, married Tracy Fleischman in 2011^[15]
          • Sarah Elinor Morgenthau Wessel (1963),^[14] married to Carlton Wessel in 1993^[16]
        • Joan Morgenthau Hirschhorn (1922-2012)^[13] married Fred Hirschhorn, Jr. in 1957, 3 children^[17]
          • Elizabeth Hirschhorn Wilson, married Bruce Wilson^[17]
          • Joan Hirschhorn Bright, married David Bright^[17]
          • Elinor H. Hirschhorn,^[17] married Michael J. Carroll in 1996^[18]
    • Clara Lehman Limburg^[19]
      • Mabel Limburg Rossbach^[19] married to Max J. H. Rossbach^[20]
        • June Bingham Birge (1919-2007),^[19] married U.S. Congressman Jonathan Brewster Bingham (1914-1986), four children;^[21] remarried to Robert B. Birge in 1987, no children^[21]
          • Sherrell Bingham Downes^[21][22]
          • Timothy Woodbridge Bingham^[21][22]
          • Claudia Bingham Meyers^[21][22]
          • June Mitchell Esselstyn^[21] (1942-1999) married Erik C. Esselstyn, 2 children^[22][23]
            • June Eriksson (Jody) Esselstyn^[23]
            • Blakeman Bingham Esselstyn^[23]
    • Sigmund M. Lehman
      • Allan S. Lehman
      • Harold M. Lehman
    • Harriet Lehman (1860–1948), married to Philip Goodhart
      • Arthur Lehman Goodhart (1891-1978), British academic; married Cecily Carter, 3 children
        • Philip Goodhart (1925-2015), British politician; married Valerie Forbes Winant, niece of John Gilbert Winant; 7 children^[24][25]
          • Arthur Goodhart^[25]
          • Sarah Goodhart^[25]
          • David Goodhart, (1956-) journalist; married to journalist Lucy Kellaway; 4 children^[25][26]
          • Rachel Goodhart^[25]
          • Harriet Goodhart^[25]
          • Rebecca Goodhart^[25]
          • Daniel Goodhart^[25]
        • William Goodhart (1933-)
        • Charles Goodhart (1936-)
      • Howard Goodhart
      • Helen Goodhart (1887–1985), married to Frank Altschul (1887–1981), banker^[27]
        • Margaret Lang, married to journalist Daniel Lang, 3 children^[28][29]
          • Frances Lang Labaree^[29]
          • Helen Lang^[29]
          • Cecily Lang Kooyman^[29]
        • Edith Altschul Graham (died 2003), married Robert C. Graham, 3 children^[30]
          • Robert C. Graham, Jr.^[30]
          • Michael C. Graham^[30]
          • Kathryn G. Graham^[30]
        • Arthur Altschul (1920–2002), investment banker
          • married Stephanie Rosemary Wagner in 1956, she later died in a plane crash, 2 children^[31]
            • Stephen Altschul (1957-), mathematician and researcher; married to Caroline Kershaw James
            • Charles Altschul
          • married Siri von Reis (divorced 1972), 3 children
            • Arthur Altschul, Jr. (1964–), married to journalist Rula Jebreal^[32]
            • Emily Helen Altschul (1966–), married John Miller (journalist) in 2002^[33]
            • Serena Altschul (1970-), broadcast journalist and MTV host
    • Arthur Lehman (1873–1936), married to Adele Lewisohn Lehman,^[34] daughter of Adolph Lewisohn (1849–1938), mining magnate, 3 children
      • Dorothy Lehman Bernhard (1903 – 1969), married to investment banker Richard Jaques Bernhard in 1923, 2 children^[35]
        • Robert Arthur Bernhard (born 1928)^[35]
        • William Lehman Bernhard(born 1931)^[35]
      • Helen Lehman (1905–1989),^[36] lawyer, married to Benjamin Buttenwieser (1900–1991), banker at Kuhn, Loeb & Co.^[37]
        • Lawrence B. Buttenwieser, lawyer at Katten Muchin Rosenman, married to Ann Lubin,^[38] daughter of Isador Lubin
          • Jill Ann Buttenwieser Schloss, married to Richard Perry Schloss^[39]
          • Carol Buttenwieser Sharp^[39]
          • Peter Lubin Buttenwieser (1965), married to Susan Helen Upton in 1995^[40]
        • Peter L. Buttenwieser, philanthropist^[41]
        • Paul A. Buttenwieser, psychiatrist^[42]
      • Frances Lehman Loeb (1906–1996), married to John Langeloth Loeb, Sr., 5 children^[43][44]
        • John Langeloth Loeb, Jr. (1930–), businessman
          • Nicholas M. Loeb (1976–)
        • Judith Loeb Chiara^[43] married to Richard N. Beaty, married and divorced from Marco Chiara, the son of the Italian novelist Piero Chiara^[45]
        • Arthur Lehman Loeb^[43]
        • Deborah Loeb Brice^[43]
        • Ann Loeb Bronfman (1932–2011), married to Edgar Bronfman, Sr. (1929–2013)
          • Samuel Bronfman (1954), married to Melanie Mann.^[46]
          • Edgar Bronfman, Jr. (1955)
            • married to Sherry Brewer from 1979-1991, 3 children
              • Benjamin Bronfman (1982); one child with Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam (1975)
                • Ikhyd Edgar Arular Bronfman (2009)
              • Vanessa Bronfman
              • Hannah Bronfman (1988)
            • married Clarisa Alcock San Román in 1993, 4 children
              • Aaron Bronfman
              • Bettina Bronfman
              • Erik Bronfman
              • Clarissa Bronfman
          • Matthew Bronfman (1959)
            • married Fiona Woods, divorced 1997, 3 children
              • Gabriela Talia Bronfman
              • Eli Miles Bronfman
              • Jeremy Samuel Bronfman
            • married Lisa Belzberg, daughter of Canadian businessman Samuel Belzberg, 3 children, divorced
              • Sasha Bronfman
              • Tess Bronfman
              • Ezekiel Bronfman
            • married Stacey Kaye in 2005
          • Holly Bronfman Lev, married to Yoav Lev. She is a convert to Hinduism and has taken the name Bhavani Lev.^[47]
          • Adam Bronfman
    • Irving Lehman (1876–1945), U.S. lawyer and politician, married to Sissie Straus, daughter of Nathan Straus, no children
    • Herbert H. Lehman (1878–1963), 45th Governor of New York; married Edith Louise Altschul in 1910 (sister of banker Frank Altschul), 3 children^[48]
      • Hilda Lehman Wise
        • Peter Lehman Wise
          • married Sharon McAuliffe, divorced, 1 child
            • Catherine Jane Wise, married to David Giffen
          • married Marylou Hanover, 1 child
            • Matthew Lehman Wise
        • Stephanie Wise
        • Deborah Wise, married Peter Sheridan
          • Eli Wise
      • Peter Gerald Lehman (1917-1944); married Peggy Rosenbaum in 1938, 2 children; killed in combat during World War II.^[49]
        • Penny Lehman (1940)^[49]
        • Wendy Lehman (1942)^[49]
      • John Robert Lehman

References

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2. Flade, Roland (1996). Die Lehmanns und die Rimparer Juden: zur Dauerausstellung im Rathaus Rimpar (in German). Königshausen & Neumann. p. 13. ISBN 3826012739.
3. New York Times: "Carl S. Shoup, 97; Shaped Japan's Tax Code" By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON March 31, 2000
4. H. R. Ickelheimer Weds
5. New York Times: "Jean Stralem, 86, Philanthropist Known for Work With the Blind" by WOLFGANG SAXON December 22, 1994
6. New York Times: "Philip H. Isles Becomes Fiance Of Miss Moltke"
7. New York Sun: "Stephane Groueff, 83, Bulgarian Journalist and Author in Exile" By STEPHEN MILLER May 22, 2006
8. New York Times: "Jill Pauline Isles Betrothed To Guillermo B. Aguilera"
9. New York Times: "WEDDINGS; Pauline Aguilera, Nicholas Longano" May 10, 1998
10. Stony Brook University: "Exteriors, Interiors, and Positionality: The Photography of Tina Barney - A Dissertation Presented by Susan A. Van Scoy May 2010 - p.44
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15. New York Times: "Tracy Fleischman and Kramer Morgenthau" December 23, 2011
16. New York Times: "WEDDINGS; Carlton Wessel, Sarah Morgenthau" September 6, 1993
17. New York Times: "Joan Morgenthau Hirschhorn" October 7, 2012
18. New York Times: "WEDDINGS;Elinor Hirschhorn, Michael J. Carroll" June 30, 1996
19. Lehman College: "June Bingham Birge, 1919 - 2007" August 27, 2007
20. New York Times: "June Bingham Marries Robert B. Birge" March 29, 1987
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22. Gainesville Sun: "Local reverend dies of cancer" By GARY KIRKLAND October 28, 1999
23. New York Times: "Paid Notice: Deaths ESSELSTYN, THE REV. JUNE MITCHELL (MICKI) BINGHAM October 28, 1999
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27. Reich, Cary (2003). "André Meyer". In Ellis, Charles D. Wall Street People: True Stories of the Great Barons of Finance. New York: John Wiley & Sons. p. 25. ISBN 0471274283.
28. New York Times: "Daniel Lang, 66, Correspondent and author for New Yorker, dies" November 19, 1981
29. New York Times: "Paid Notice: Deaths LANG, MARGARET ALTSCHUL" January 10, 2002
30. New York Times: "Deaths GRAHAM, EDITH ALTSCHUL" May 14, 2003
31. New York Times: Principals in Wedding Ceremony Here; Stephanie R. Wagner Is Bride Of Arthur Goodhart Altschul April 30, 1956,
32. New York Post: "Arthur Altschul, Jr. engaged to Rula Jebreal" May 2, 2013
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35. Jewish Women's Archive: "Dorothy Lehman Bernhard 1903–1969" by Jennifer Rosenberg retrieved October 30, 2015
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38. http://media.swarthmore.edu/bulletin/?p=277
39. New York Times: "Jill Ann Buttenwieser Weds" March 20, 1989
40. New York Times: "WEDDINGS; Susan Upton, P. L. Buttenwieser" June 25, 1995
41. "Political Donor Shuns A System He Funds". October 1, 2000.
42. "Family' man Arts patron also champions a tradition of social justice and philanthropy". July 29, 1999.
43. New York Times: "Frances Loeb, 89, Lifesaver to Foreign Diplomats" By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER May 19, 1996
44. New York Times: "John L. Loeb Sr. Dies at 94; Investor and Philanthropist" By ERIC PACE December 9, 1996
45. New York Times: "JUDITH CHIARA Obituary" November 17, 2010
46. New York Times: "Notes on People; Abducted Bronfman Son to Wed"
47. Economic Times of India: "Fabindia acquires a 40% stake in Organic India" by Rasul Bailay & Chaitali Chakravarty March 6, 2013
48. Jewish Women's Archives: "EDITH ALTSCHUL LEHMAN 1889 – 1974" by Norma Spungen retrieved December 26, 2015
49. Colombia University Digital Archive: "1st Lieutenant Peter Gerald Lehman" February 15, 1953

Further reading

• Birmingham, Stephen (1996). Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 0815604114.
• Mayo, Anthony J.; Nohria, Nitin; Singleton, Laura G. (2006). Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership. Harvard Business Press. pp. 104–107. ISBN 1422101983.

External links

• The Jewish Daily Forward: "The Lehmans? They’ve Moved On. Sad? A Little" September 26, 2008
• Full text of "John L. Loeb Collection" retrieved October 28, 2015