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...jewels. The earliest Rothschilds lived in a double house in Frankfort's Jew Street. They took their name from a red shield which hung outside their part of the house. On the same street, behind the sign of a ship, lived the ancestors of the late great Jacob Schiff whose grandson was last week engaged to a daughter of the great gentile banking house of Baker (see p. 60). The Rothschild invention of branch banking was not made by Amschel on his death bed. It evolved when Nathan, ablest of Mayer's sons, set out for England...
George Fisher Baker was born in Troy, N. Y. in 1840. His line of shrewd, blue-eyed, hard-bitten Yankees went back seven generations to Boston and 1635. When George Fisher Baker was seven years old a German clerk made this entry in the Frankfort-On-Main birth register: "Schiff, Moses, Israelitish citizen, whose wife Clara, nee Niederhofheim, gave birth on Sunday morning, Jan. 10, at 5 o'clock, to a legitimate son-Jacob Henry." The Schiffs were merchants in a city of great Jewish banking houses. Under the same roof but a few doors down from the Schiffs...
Married. Natica Nast, daughter of Publisher Conde Nast (Vogue, Vanity Fair, House & Garden); and Gerald F. Warburg, second son of Banker Felix M. Warburg (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), grandson of the late Jacob H. Schiff; in Manhattan. Mr. Warburg was lately divorced in Reno by Marion Bab Warburg...
Pittsburgh: Director Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens of the Carnegie Institute...
...second time in the Institute's history no artists were on the jury of award. Four museum directors-Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens of Pittsburgh, Robert Bartholow Harshe of Chicago, Cuthbert Powell Minnigerode of Washington, Meyric R. Rogers of St. Louis-distributed $3,300 in prizes, as usual had their decisions loudly challenged by art critics...