Maurice Wertheim
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Maurice Wertheim was an American investment banker, chess player and patron, art collector, environmentalist, and philanthropist. In 1927 he founded Wertheim & Co.
Board of directors, Theatre Guild, 1923. From left: Lawrence Langner, Philip Moeller, Theresa Helburn, Maurice Wertheim, Helen Westley, Lee Simonson
Henry Morgenthau Sr.
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Henry Morgenthau was a German-born American lawyer and businessman, best known for his role as the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Morgenthau was one of the most prominent America
Maurice Wertheim
…Barbara, established the Wertheim Study Room in the New York Public Library in honor of her father. In 1909, he married Alma Morgenthau, daughter of Henry Morgenthau Sr. They had three daughters, Josephine Wertheim Pomerance (b. 1910), mother of Rafe Pomerance; historian Barbara W. Tuchman (1912–1989), mother of Jessica…
Portrait by Harris & Ewing c. 1920s
Morgenthau c. 1899
Morgenthau (left), Samuel Train Dutton (center) and Cleveland Hoadley Dodge c. 1915–1920
A telegram written by Morgenthau to the State Department in 1915 described the massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as a "campaign of race extermination."