American Jewish Committee, 355, 356, 370
American Metal Co., 407
American Museum of Natural History, 252
American Potash & Chemical Corp., 361
American Smelting & Refining Co., 292, 293, 294
Amherst College, 204–5
Ami, Ben, 319
Amory, Cleveland, 25
Anaconda Copper co., 250
Anderson, Robert, 150
Anglo-American Telegraph Co., 116
Anglo-California National Bank, 133, 137
Anglo-French Commission, 344
anti-Semitism, 16–17, 22, 73, 112, 116, 124, 135, 142–43, 160–65, 177, 204, 210–11, 239, 261–64, 314, 339–40, 349, 355–56, 380, 400, 403–4
Arden, Elizabeth, 419
Arling, Emanie, see Philips, Mrs. August
Armstrong Committee, 328
Armstrong-Jones, Antony (Lord Snowden), 382
Arnold, Florine, see Seligman, Mrs. Alfred Lincoln
Astor, Jacob, see Astor, John Jacob
Astor, John Jacob, 40, 72, 75, 138, 158, 358
Astor, John Jacob, Jr., 75
Astor, Mrs. John Jacob, Jr. (née Gibbes), 75
Astor, Mrs. William Waldorf, 118, 124, 382, 295, 326, 330–32, 380–81
Astor family, 74, 75, 100, 103
Atlantic & Pacific Railroad, 127, 128, 129, 186
Atlantic Monthly, 18
August Belmont & Co., 45, 145, 162
“Aztec Land” deal, 186
Bache, J. S., & Co., 20
Bache, Jules, 21, 409
Bache, Mrs. Jules (Florence Sheftel), 21
Bache, Semon, 21
Bache, Mrs. Semon, 273
Bache family, 20, 283
Back, James, 263
Baer, Sophia, see Sachs, Mrs. Joseph
Baker, Edith, see Schiff, Mrs. John M.
Baker, George F., 223, 309
Baker, George F., Jr., 418
Balanchine, George, 416
Ballin, Albert, 373, 394
Baltimore & Ohio rr, 180, 337
Bank of England, 83
Bank of Manhattan, 384
Bank of North America, 43
Banque de Paris, 253
Bar Harbor, 201–2, 204, 341, 368
Barbizon school of painting, 388
Barnard College, 355, 404
Baron de Hirsch Fund, 320
Barron’s, 18
Barsimson, Jacob, 41
Baruch, Bernard, 164, 248, 293
Baruch family, 42
Bath club (London), 261
“Battle of the Giants,” 229, 231
Bayard family, 39
Beaty, Richard, 408
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave, 95
Beebe, Lucius, 77
Beecher, Henry Ward, 163
Beekman family, 39
Beer family, 20, 382
Beit, Eduard, 373
Bellamont, Lord, 43
Belmont, August, 24, 37, 38, 39, 41, 44–45, 72–77, 83, 85, 94, 101, 129, 131, 140–41, 145–47, 152, 155, 158, 159, 177, 189, 220, 261, 331
Belmont, Mrs. August (Caroline Slidell Perry), 75, 77, 146, 282
Belmont, August, Jr., 145, 261
Belmont, Oliver H. P., 145, 261
Belmont, Perry, 145, 261
Belmont family, 75–77
Benjamin, F. A., 115
Benjamin, Judah P., 144
Bernhard, Dorothy Lehman, 10, 398
Bernhard, Richard, 409
Bernhard, Mrs. Richard, 391, 409
Bernhard, Robert A., 10
Bernhard, William L., 10
Bernhard family, 20
Bernheimer, Alva, see Gimbel, Mrs. Bernard
Bernheimer, Charles, 43
Bernheimer family, 20
Bertholdi, Auguste, 145
Bethlehem Steel Co., 361n.
Binswanger, Dr., 399
Birmingham, Janet Tillson, 11
Bismarck, Otto von (Prince), 177, 210–11
Black Friday, 126
Black Thursday, 229
Bliss, Cornelius N., 263
Bohm, S. H., 115, 165, 247, 251
“Bohunks,” 318
Bond, James, 125n.
Bonn, William, 174–75
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 278
Bouguereau, William, 76
Boutwell, George Sewall, 118–20
Bovenizer, George W., 354
Brandeis, Louis D., 356
Brandt, Carol, 11
Brautschau, 59, 69, 91, 149
Brearley School, 149, 199, 420
Bremer, Frederika, 40
Brevoort family, 39
Brinckmann, Wirtz & Co., 397n.
Bristow, Benjamin, 153–54
Bronfman, Edgar, 410
Bronfman, Mrs. Edgar (Ann Loeb), 409–10
Bronfman, Samuel, 410
Brown Brothers, Harriman, Inc., 113n.
Brown, John Crosby, 263
Bryant, William Cullen, 163
Buckingham, James Silk, 40
Budge, Henry, 175, 177, 309
Budge, Mrs. Henry, 309
Buneau-Varilla, Philippe, 259–61
Burden, Mrs. William A. M., Jr., 407n.
Burlington rr, 222–24, 226
Buttenwieser, Benjamin, 409
Buttenwieser, Mrs. Benjamin, 409
Buttenwieser family, 20
Cabot family, 38
Cahn, Emma, see Lewisohn, Mrs. Adolph
Cahn, Leopold, 21
Cahn, Mrs. Leopold, 21
Cahn family, 20, 283, 409
Canfield, Cass, 11
Cannon, LeGrand, 262
Cardozo family, 42
Carl M. Loeb, Rhoads & Co., see Loeb, Rhoads & Co.
Carlton, Newcomb, 415
Carlyle, Thomas, 220
Caruso, Enrico, 334
Cassel, Ernest, 189, 190–91, 198, 230, 369, 370
Castle Garden, 320
Castro, Fidel, 409
Catchings, Waddill, 364, 385
Central Pacific Railroad, 127, 186–87
Central Park, 100
Century Country Club, 374, 384, 408
Cerutti, Marquise de, 296
Chapman, John Jay, 143
Chase, Salmon P., 89, 90, 91, 117
“Cheeryble Brothers,” 102
Chesapeake & Ohio rr, 180
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rr, 180
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, 179
Chicago-Burlington & Quincy rr, see Burlington rr
Choate, Joseph, 262
Churchill, Mrs. Randolph, 407n.
Cincinnati, 67–68, 69
“Citizenship of Adolph Lewisohn, The,” 389
City Ball, 74
City College of New York, 18
Civil War, 86 ff., 116, 153
Clark, Dodge co., 129
Clark, George C., 129, 140
Clarkson family, 39
Clemenceau, Georges, 351
Clinton, DeWitt, 150
Cohn, Henry, 117
Collection of Jewish Narratives, 62
Colombia, 260–61
Colorado Smelting & Refining Co., 249
Columbus, Christopher, 41
Colusa mine, 243–44
commercial paper, 104
“Committee of Seventy,” 159
Communism, 324
Comstock Lode, 165
Coney Island, 164
Conned, Heinrich, 333–34, 335
Consolidated Edison Co., 111
Content, Rosa, see Seligman, Mrs. James
Content, Simon, 23
Content, Mrs. Simon (Angeline), 23
Content family, 22, 269
Continental Can Co., 363
copper, 242–45, 248, 249, 291, 292
Corbil, Sen., 139
Corbin, Austin, 164
Costa Rica, 255
Coster family, 74, 75
cotton, 84, 85, 92–93, 95, 102
Crocker-Anglo Bank, 137
Cudahy kidnaping, 295n.
Cullman family, 149, 283
Dali, Salvador, 410
Damrosch, Walter, 208
Davidson, Henry, 293
Davis, Jefferson, 92
Deal Golf Club, 374
Dearborn (Mich.) Independent, 380
Debrett, John, 394
Delaware & Hudson rr, 337
De Lesseps, Ferdinand, 253, 254, 255, 259
Delmonico, Lorenzo, 77
Delmonico’s restaurant, 40, 45, 74, 159
De Neuflize, M., 119
Denver & Rio Grande rr, 180
Depression, 386
De Rham, Willie, 17
Deutsch, Felix, 346–47, 348
Deutsch, Mrs. Felix (née Kahn), 346
Dewey, Melville L. K., 164
De Witt (butler), 381, 386
Diamond Horseshoe, 332, 334, 339
Dickens, Charles, 69
Dillon, Read co., 405
Distillers Corporation-Seagrams Ltd., 410
divorce, 415
Dodd, W. E., 90
Donizetti, Gaetano, 334
Drew, “Uncle Daniel,” 123, 124, 125, 130
Drexel, Morgan co., 143, 156, 162, 253, 355
Dreyfus case, 259, 355
Dreyfus, Mrs. Ludwig (née Goldman), 21
Dreyfus family, 209, 213
dueling, 72–73
Durant, Will, 379–80
Durr, John Wesley, 92, 102
E. F. Hutton & Co., 22
East Side Relief Work Committee, 321–22
Edison, Thomas A., 242
Edward VII of England, 309, 331
Einstein, Albert, 401
Elberon, N.J., 277, 283–90, 291, 368, 369, 396; see also Jersey Shore
Electric Boat Co., 361n.
Electric Vehicle Co., 358
Eliot, Charles W., 204, 344
Elliott, Marine, 220–21
Empire Trust Co., 410
Enterprise Mfg. Co., 256n.
Equitable Life Assurance Society, 325 ff., 332
Erie Railroad, 123, 124–25, 126, 178, 188, 337
Ethical Culture Society, 166
etiquette, 71–72
Everglades Club, 374
“Family Liquidation Agreement,” 190
Farley, James A., 367
Fatman family, 361
Federal Reserve Board Act, 342n.
Federal Reserve System, 383–84
Felix and Frieda Schiff Warburg Foundation, 417
Fessenden, William, 91, 117
Field, Cyrus W., 116
Financial & Industrial Corp., 385
Fire Island, 404
First National Bank (NYC), 162, 223, 309, 343
Fischel, Harry, 356
Fish, Hamilton, 118
Fisk, “Jubilee Jim,” 123, 124, 125, 126
Fleming, Ian, 125n.
Ford, Henry, Sr., 380
Ford, Henry II, 380
Ford Foundation, 380
Ford Motor Co., 380
Fortune magazine, 366, 404, 405n.
“Forty-Eighters,” 144
Foster, William T., 364
“Four Hundred,” 20, 118, 282, 332
Fox, J. Bertram, 386
Frankfurt University, 355
Frelinghuysen-Zavala Treaty, 255
Fremdenliste, Die, 235–36, 238
French Society of Dramatic Writers, 351
Fresh Air Fund, 203
Freud, Sigmund, 278, 372
Gable, Clark, 114
Gage, Lyman, 286
Gallenberg, Betty, see Loeb, Mrs. Solomon #2
Garfield, James A., 285
Gasner, Beverley, 10
Gates, John “Bet-a-Million,” 160
Gatling, R. J., 248
Gatti-Casazza, Giulio, 334–35, 337, 338, 339, 346
Geary, Sen., 257
Geiger, Abraham, 174
Geiger, Alfred, 174
General League of Jewish Workers, 317
General Motors Corp., 379–80
George III of England, 47
Gerould, Mireille, 10
Gibbes, Thomas L., 75
Gilbert, C. P. H., 313
“Gilded Age,” 281
Gilroy, Thomas F., 262, 263
Gimbel, Bernard, 23
Gimbel, Mrs. Bernard (Alva Bernheimer), 23
Gimbel family, 23
Gitterman, Henry, 87, 88, 94
Goelet, Peter, 39–41
Goelet family, 39, 41, 75
Goethe, Johann von, 336
gold, 78 ff., 113, 115, 116, 125–26, 143
Gold, Nathan, 124
Goldman, Bertha, see Goldman, Mrs. Marcus
Goldman, Henry, 283, 361, 362, 363–64
Goldman, Louise, see Sachs, Mrs. Samuel
Goldman, Marcus, 66–67, 103–4, 152, 171, 266, 274, 283, 361
Goldman, Mrs. Marcus (Bertha Goldman), 66–67, 103, 104, 266
Goldman, Rosa, see Sachs, Mrs. Julius
Goldman, Sachs & Co., 20, 22, 152–53, 266, 362–65, 380, 385, 406
Goldman, Sachs Trading Corp., 385
Goldman family, 9, 10, 23, 60, 66, 145, 149, 267
Goldschmidt, Solomon, 234
golf, 374–75
Gomez family, 42
Gompers, Sam, 293
Goodenough, Prof., 374
Goodhart, Howard, 374
Goodhart, Philip J., 16, 374
Goodhart, Mrs. Philip J., “Granny” (Hattie Lehman), 15, 17, 20, 23, 374
Goodhart, Sander, 149
Goodhart, Wolf, 90, 149, 163
Goodhart family, 10, 15–16, 20, 361, 382, 404, 408
“Googs,” 246; see also Guggenheim family
Gordan, Mrs. John D., 23, 404
Gordan, Phyllis Goodhart, 10
Göring, Hermann, 396
Gottheil, Gustav (Rabbi), 17, 148, 166–67, 317
Gould, Jay, 123–26, 130, 131, 143, 179, 187, 268
Gould family, 124, 269
Graham, Charles H., 247, 248, 250
Grand Union Hotel (Saratoga), 159, 160–65, 204, 284, 348
Grant, Ulysses, 58, 79, 81, 91, 93, 94–95, 117, 118, 120–21, 125–26, 129, 132, 134, 138, 153, 155, 159, 256, 257, 285
Grant, Mrs. Ulysses S., 58, 120–21
Grant & Ward, 285n.
Granville-Barker, Harley, 221
Great Northern rr, 180, 205, 222, 223, 244
Gregory Consolidated Mining Co., 250–51
Groton school, 203, 204
Guggenex co., 249, 292, 293
Guggenheim, Benjamin, 24, 248, 249, 270, 296, 298, 303
Guggenheim, Mrs. Benjamin (Florette Seligman), 24, 246, 270, 272, 273, 296, 298
Guggenheim, Daniel, 250, 292–93, 294, 299
Guggenheim, Isaac “Old Icicle,” 63–64
Guggenheim, Jakob, 62
Guggenheim, Joseph, 62–63
Guggenheim, M. (Meyer) Robert, 299
Guggenheim, Mrs. M. Robert #4 (Polly), 299; see also Logan, Mrs. John A.
Guggenheim, Meyer (son of Isaac), 64, 247–50, 292
Guggenheim, Meyer (son of Simon), 20, 65, 66, 86, 171–72, 295–96
Guggenheim, Mrs. Meyer (son of Simon) (Barbara Meyer), 65, 172, 295
Guggenheim, Murry, 250
Guggenheim, Peggy, 24, 270, 272, 273, 283, 296, 299
Guggenheim, Samuel, 64
Guggenheim, Simon, 64–65, 250, 294
Guggenheim, Mrs. Simon #1, 65
Guggenheim, Mrs. Simon #2 (Rachel Meyer), 65
Guggenheim, Solomon, 250
Guggenheim, William, 248, 249, 296–97, 303, 371
Guggenheim, Mrs. William (Grace Brown Herbert), 297
Guggenheim Brothers, 64, 292–93
Guggenheim Exploration Co., see Guggenex
Guggenheim family, 9, 20, 21, 23–24, 60 ff., 171, 246–47, 248, 252, 273, 283–84, 292 ff., 382
Guiterman Brothers, 117
Gulf, Mobile & Northern rr
, 180
Haarbleicher, Fanny, see Lewisohn, Mrs. Sam #1
Hallgarten, Charles, 21
Hallgarten, Mrs. Charles (née Mainzer), 21
Hallgarten, Mrs. Lazarus, 273
Hallgarten & Co., 20, 21, 309
Hallgarten family, 20
Hals, Franz, 231
Hambuchen, Joseph, 398
Hambuchen, Toni, see Loeb, Mrs. James
Hamburg (city), 234–36
Hamburg-America Line, 394
Hamilton family, 39, 133
Hammerslough, Augusta, see Rosenwald, Mrs. Samuel
Hammerslough, Samuel, 362
Hammerslough, Mrs. Samuel (Emelia), 362
Hammerslough family, 20
Hammerstein, Oscar, 334, 339
Hammonia (ship), 237, 240
Handlin, Oscar, 10, 357
Hanna, Mark, 258
Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, 171
Harmonie Club, 132, 148, 374
Harper’s Magazine, 265
Harper’s Weekly, 142
Harriman, E. H. “Ned,” 187–89, 190–91, 201, 202, 221 ff., 291, 326, 327, 328, 333, 336
Hart, Julius, 116
Harvard University, 204–5, 206, 277–78, 355
“Haute Banque” group, 119
Hayes, Rutherford B., 159, 256n.
Hayes, Mrs. Rutherford B. (Lucy), 256n.
Heath, Charles Monroe, 297
Heatherdale Farm, 386
Hebrew Orphan Asylum, 252, 263
Hebrew Standard, 318
Heidelbach, Alfred, 309, 310
Heidelbach, Mrs. Alfred, 309, 310
Heidelbach, Ickelheimer & Co., 21, 309
Heidelbach family, 20
Heine, Heinrich, 210
Heinsheimer, Mr., 227
Hellman, Geoffrey T., 10, 272, 382
Hellman, George S., 303, 304, 381–82
Hellman, Henriette, see Seligman, Mrs. Jesse
Hellman, Isaias, 85n.
Hellman, Mrs. Isaias (née Newgass), 85n.
Hellman, Max, 113–14
Hellman, Theodore, 114–15, 166, 288
Hellman, Mrs. Theodore (Frances Seligman), 114, 166–67, 284, 288, 290, 306
Hellman family, 20, 84
Hendricks, Harmon, 42
Hendricks family, 42, 144, 261
Henry Street Settlement, 17
Herbert, Mrs. Grace Brown, see Guggenheim, Mrs. William
Herbert, Hilary A., 92, 93
Herbert, Victor, 264
Hertz, Mary, see Warburg, Mrs. Aby M.
Heyward, Edward, 73
Heyward, William, 73
Heyward family, 73
Higginson family, 38
Hill, James Jerome, 180, 191, 201, 205, 222, 223 ff., 244, 327, 328
Hilton, Henry (Judge), 158 ff., 263
History of Banking, Men and Ideas, A, 124n.
Hitler, Adolf, 16, 177, 364, 372, 384, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399
Hoffman, Malvina, 419
Hotchkiss School, 403
Hottinguer, M., 119
House of Rothschild, see Rothschild, House of
House of Seligman, see Seligman, House of
Hughes, Charles Evans, 328
Hunter, Margaret, 41
Huntington, Collis P., 130, 263
Hyde, H. B., 325, 326, 329