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.
Lehman family | |
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Current region | New York, U.S. |
Place of origin | Bavaria, Germany |
Founder | Abraham Lehman |
Connected families |
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.
Some of the family members include:[2]
The Lehman family tree includes a governor, a chief justice of the New York State court of appeals, a secretary of the treasury, two ambassadors, members of the U.S. House of Representatives, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons, and a New York State parks commissioner. So, when descendants of one of America's most prominent German Jewish dynasties gather later this month, it will be no ordinary reunion.
The Wedding of Miss Harriet Lehman, eldest daughter of Mr. Emanuel Lehman, and Mr. Sigmund M. Lehman, took place at the residence of the bride's father, No. 16 East Fortysixth-street, last evening
Grace is married to John T. Cahill of New York, a former U. S. District Attorney, and they have four children
Her three marriages ended in divorce. Surviving besides her mother are two daughters, Mrs. Deborah Sheridan and Stephanie Wise; a son, Peter L. Wise, and a brother, John R, Lehman.
Boris de Vadetzky, who married Hilda Jane Lehman, 19-year-old daughter of Governor and Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman, at Elkton, Md., on Dec. 1, was a WPA actor and research worker from Nov. 6, 1938, to Nov. 24. 1939, the records of the Work Projects Administration in this city disclosed yesterday.
Her first marriage to Boris de Vadetzky ended in divorce last August.
Father of the bridegroom, Eugene Paul, was the best man