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Isidor Straus

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Name: Isidor Straus
Birth Date: February 6, 1845
Death Date: April 15, 1912
Place of Birth: Otterberg, Germany
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: businessman, politician

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Biography of Isidor Straus
448 words, approx. 2 pages
The American merchant Isidor Straus (1845-1912) was the owner of the department store R. H. Macy and Company and a U.S. congressman. Isidor Straus was born on Feb. 6, 1845, in Otterberg, Germany, of a cultivated family. His father, a successful...


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Isidor Straus Information
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Isidor Straus (February 6, 1845 – April 15, 1912)—also known as Isadore Strauss—, a German Jewish American, was co-owner of the Macy's department store and served as a Member of Congress in the United States. He and his wife, Ida, died on...


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HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network
Isidor Straus Macy's; One Of The Truly Titanic Figures In The History Of Retailing.
11/27/2000: 602 words, approx. 2 pages
Titanic aficionados know the story of how Isidor Straus, a co-partner at Macy's, and his wife, Ida, died when the "unsinkable" ship met its fate on April 14, 1912. The story goes that Straus refused to escape, while women and children remained...
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Adam Straus
05/01/2003: 409 words, approx. 1 pages
ADAM STRAUS NOHRA HAIME GALLERY The title of Adam Straus's recent exhibition of landscape paintings, "Sublimis Interruptus," suggests that something has gone radically amiss in a moment of great import. What is interrogated in this case is nature at its most magnificent....
 


 

Isidor Straus

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