Lehman family

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The Lehman family (also Lehmann, Liehmann or Liehman) is a prominent family of Jewish German-Americans who founded the financial firm Lehman Brothers. Some were also involved in American politics.[1] Members have married into the prominent Morgenthau, Loeb, and Bronfman families.

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Lehman family
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Arthur Lehman Goodhart
Current regionNew York, U.S.
Place of originBavaria, Germany
FounderAbraham Lehman
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The family traces back to Abraham Lehmann, a cattle merchant in Rimpar, Bavaria, who changed his Yiddish (German-Jewish) surname Löw (Loeb) to the German Lehman.

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Some of the family members include:[2]

  • Abraham Lehmann, born Abraham Löw, cattle merchant in Rimpar, Bavaria[3]
    • Zeira Lehmann Schloss (1810–1902), remained in Germany
    • Berta Low Lehmann Schwab (born 1812), remained in Germany
    • Seligmann Lehmann (1814–1890), remained in Germany
    • Fratel Lehmann (1817–1817), died as a newborn
    • Anna Lehmann Roman (born 1820), remained in Germany
    • Henry Lehman (1822–1855), born Hayum Lehmann, founder of H. Lehman, which became Lehman Brothers, married to Rosa Wolf, 4 children
      • Bertha Lehman Rosenheim
      • Harriet Lehman Weil, married Moses Weil, 5 children
        • Leon Weil
        • Blanche Weil
        • Hannah Weil
        • Harry L. Weil
        • Elsie Rose Weil, married Leon Weil, 2 children
          • Helen Weil Benjamin (1905–1996)
          • George Leon Weil (1907–1995), nuclear physicist
      • David Lehman
      • Meyer H. Lehman
    • 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, married her cousin Sigmund M. Lehman, son of her uncle Mayer Lehman[4][5]
      • Evelyn Philip Lehman, married Jules Ehrich, 4 children:[2]
        • 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[6] and granddaughter of businessman Paul Shoup
          • William Mayer (1925–2017), 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)
    • Aaron Lehman (1829–1924)
    • 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[25]
      • Clara Lehman Limburg[34]
      • Sigmund M. Lehman married his cousin Harriet Philip Lehman, daughter of his uncle Emanuel Lehman[4][5]
        • Allan S. Lehman married Evelyn Schiffer[39]
        • Harold M. Lehman, married Cecile R. Seligman, 2 daughters
          • Betty Lehman Asiel[40] married to E. Nelson Asiel,[41] 3 children
          • Susan Lehman, married Joseph Cullman (1912–2004) in 1935, one daughter.[42][43]
            • Dorothy Cullman Treisman[42]
      • Harriet Lehman (1860–1948), married to Philip Goodhart
      • Arthur Lehman (1873–1936), married to Adele Lewisohn Lehman,[54] daughter of Adolph Lewisohn (1849–1938), mining magnate, 3 children
      • 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[76]
        • Hilda Jane Lehman de Vadetzky Paul Wise (1921–1974), married three times,[77] Her first marriage to Boris de Vadetzky in 1940[78] ended in divorce in 1944, no children;[79] her second marriage to Eugene L. Paul in 1945 resulted in divorce, no children;[79] her third marriage also resulted in divorce, 3 children[77]
          • Peter Lehman Wise
            • married Sharon Anne McAuliffe in 1977,[80] divorced, 1 child
              • Catherine Jane Wise, married to David Giffen
            • married Marylou Hanover, 1 child
              • Matthew Lehman Wise
          • Stephanie Wise
          • Deborah Jane Wise, married Peter N. Sheridan in 1971[81]
            • Eli Wise
        • Peter Gerald Lehman (1917–1944); in 1938, he married Peggy Lashanska Rosenbaum, daughter of soprano Hulda Lashanska, 2 children; he was killed while serving during World War II.[82][83]
          • Penelope "Penny" Lehman Karp (born 1940)[82] married to Stanley Mortimor Karp in 1964[84]
          • Wendy Lehman (1942–2016)[82]
        • John Robert Lehman (1920–1994)

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