Isidor Strauss ( him. Isidor Straus , February 6, 1845 - April 15, 1912 ) - German - American entrepreneur , co-owner of Macy's largest American department store chain. For a short time was a member of the US House of Representatives . [1] Isidore Strauss died with his wife, Ida, during the death of the Titanic in 1912 .
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Birth | February 6, 1845 Otterberg , Rhineland-Palatinate , German Union | ||||||
Death | April 15, 1912 (67 years) Atlantic Ocean aboard RMS Titanic (drowned) | ||||||
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Father | Lazar Strauss (1809–1898) | ||||||
Mother | Sarah Strauss (1823–1876) | ||||||
Spouse | Rosilia Ida Blum (in 1871) | ||||||
Children | 7 children | ||||||
The consignment | US Democratic Party | ||||||
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Biography
Early life
Isidor Strauss was born on February 6, 1845 in the German city of Otterberg into a Jewish family. He was the eldest of five children in the family of Lazar Strauss and his second wife Sarah. In 1854, his family immigrated to the United States and settled in the city of Talbotton in Georgia , where they opened a store.
Since the beginning of the American Civil War, Isidore attempted to join the army of the Confederate States of America , but because of his small age (he was 16) he was not taken to the war. [2] During the war years he worked as a clerk at his father’s store to replace employees who had gone to war, and then was a representative of the family business in England . After the end of the war, the whole family moved to New York , where Isidore and his brother Nathan organized their own dishware business in Macy's . [3]
Further fate
In 1871, Isidore Strauss married Rosalia Ida Blun (1849–1912). Spouses were inseparable, they wrote letters to each other every day when they were not together. In total, they had seven children, one of whom died in infancy:
- Jesse Isidore Strauss (1872–1936), who married Irma Nathan (1877–1970)
- Clarence Elias Strauss (1874–1876), who died in infancy
- Percy Seldon Strauss (1876–1944), who married Edith Abraham (1882–1957)
- Sarah Strauss (1878–1960), who married the physicist Alfred Fabian Hess (1875–1933)
- Minnie Strauss (1880–1940), who marched Richard Weil (1876–1918)
- Herbert Nathan Strauss (1881–1933), who married Teresa Kahan (1884–1977)
- Vivian Strauss (1886–1974), who first married Herbert Adolf Sheftel (1875–1914), and for the second time in 1917 married George A. Dixon Jr. (1891-1956)
From April 1894 to March 1895, Isidore Strauss sat in the US Congress as part of the Democratic Party . By 1896, Isidore and his brother Nathan successfully elevated to the leadership of Macy's , having received it in their full ownership that year. [3]
Death on the Titanic
In April 1912, Isidore and his wife, Ida, traveled from Germany to the United States , deciding to cross the ocean on the ultra-modern for those times Titanic . On April 14, the liner flew onto an iceberg and began to sink gradually . One of the officers of the ship offered the couple Strauss to get into the boat together, but Isidore refused, deciding to share the fate of the other men of the sinking ship. He tried to seat Ida in a boat, but she said: “I will not leave my husband. We were always together, together and die . ” [4] Instead, the Strauss put their maid, Ellen Bird, in the boat. Isidor Strauss died on the night of April 15, 1912, together with his wife. His body was found by one of the search ships and taken to Halifax , and from there to New York , where he was buried in Woodlon Cemetery in the Bronx . Excerpt from the report:
- No. 96, MAN, EXEMPLARY AGE - 65 - FRONT TEETH GOLDEN (PARTIALLY) - GRAY HAIR AND USY.
- CLOTHES - Fur coat; gray pants; jacket and vest; soft striped shirt; Brown boots; black silk socks.
- PROPERTY - Wallet; gold watch; platinum and pearl chains; golden pencil case; silver flask; silver bottle with salts; £ 40; 4 £ 2s 3d in silver.
- FIRST CLASS - NAME - ISIDOR STRAUS
The body of his wife was never found. [five]
Spouses Strauss are depicted in the scenes of the death of the liner in the film “The Death of the Titanic” in 1958 . In James Cameron ’s 1997 Titanic , Strauss is shown comforting each other in a water-filled cabin at the time of the ship’s death. The scene, when Isidore tries to convince his wife to get into the boat in the final version of the film was removed.
Memory
In memory of the Strauss in New York , four memorials have been erected:
- A plaque hangs on the first floor of Macy's in Manhattan .
- The monument to Isidore and Ida is set in Strauss Park in Manhattan , located at the intersection of Broadway and West End Avenue [5] . The park was set up in the same neighborhood where the couple once lived.
- New York Public School No. 198 is named after the Strauss.
- A cenotaph for his wife Ida was installed at the grave of Isidor Strauss at the cemetery in the Bronx .
Notes
- ↑ Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774 – present
- ↑ Enciclopedia Titanica.org
- ↑ 1 2 Eaton and Hass: Titanic, Triumph and Tragedy , pp. 246-262.
- ↑ Lynch, Don. Titanic - An Illustrated History. - New York City: Hyperion. - P. 112. - ISBN 1-56282-918-1 .
- 2 1 2 Encyclopedia Titanica article on Isidor Straus.
Literature
- Strauss, American family // Brockhaus and Efron Jewish Encyclopedia . - SPb. 1908-1913.
Links
- Isidore Strauss on the Encyclopedia Titanica website
- Isidore Strauss (English) on the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Strauss Family Community Site (eng.)