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unusual facts about Jacob H. Schiff



George Fisher Baker

His son George Fisher Baker, Jr.'s daughter Edith married John M. Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.

Jacob H. Bromwell

He was reelected to the Fifty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from December 3, 1894, to March 3, 1903.

Bromwell was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John A. Caldwell.

Jacob H. De Witt

De Witt was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821).

Jacob H. Friedman

Friedman's expert testimony at the civil trial of cartoonist Frank Moser, accused of running down the son of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Richard Bruno Hauptmann, proved decisive in securing a verdict for Hauptmann's widow.

Jacob H. Gilbert

He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress.

He was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Isidore Dollinger.

He was reelected to the Eighty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses, and served from March 8, 1960 to January 3, 1971.

Jacob H. Livingston

The injunction was upheld unanimously by the Appellate Division.

Jacob H. Neff

While holding this job, he had accumulated enough money to join forces with Ben Taylor and the Coleman Brothers.

Jacob H. Stewart

He moved with his parents to Peekskill, New York, where he attended the common schools and was graduated from Phillips Academy.

Jacob Smith

Jacob H. Smith (1840–1918), American general and veteran of the Wounded Knee Massacre

Leonard I. Schiff

Schiff was a theoretical physicist who, after completing his doctorate, worked as a research associate for two years at the University of California and the California Institute of Technology.

Mortimer L. Schiff

Schiff was awarded the Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, granted by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting.

He was a member of the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement and the Theodore Roosevelt Council Executive Board.

Pujo Committee

The Pujo Report singled out individual bankers including Paul Warburg, Jacob H. Schiff, Felix M. Warburg, Frank E. Peabody, William Rockefeller and Benjamin Strong, Jr..


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