Legal documents, 1901 ; 1902 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Included are four legal agreements documenting the establishment of the Jewish Theological Seminary's endowment fund in 1901 and additions to it in 1902. The first is an agreement, October 28, 1901, signed by Jacob Schiff, Leonard Lewisohn, Daniel Guggenheim, Louis Marshall, Mayer Sulzberger, Cyrus Adler, Felix Warburg, and Adolphus Solomons. This document establishes the original 200,000endowmentfund.Thethreeotherdocumentsaretriplicates−althoughtherearesomedifferencesbetweenthem−ofanagreementsignedonJune2,1902byJacobSchiff,FelixWarburg,LouisMarshall,JamesLoeb,SimonGuggenheim,DanielGuggenheim,PhilipS.Henry,andothers,agreeingtocontributesumsofmoneytoincreasetheSeminary′sendowmentto200,000 endowment fund. The three other documents are triplicates - although there are some differences between them - of an agreement signed on June 2, 1902 by Jacob Schiff, Felix Warburg, Louis Marshall, James Loeb, Simon Guggenheim, Daniel Guggenheim, Philip S. Henry, and others, agreeing to contribute sums of money to increase the Seminary's endowment to 200,000endowmentfund.Thethreeotherdocumentsaretriplicates−althoughtherearesomedifferencesbetweenthem−ofanagreementsignedonJune2,1902byJacobSchiff,FelixWarburg,LouisMarshall,JamesLoeb,SimonGuggenheim,DanielGuggenheim,PhilipS.Henry,andothers,agreeingtocontributesumsofmoneytoincreasetheSeminary′sendowmentto500,000. The signers represent a display of support for the Seminary by members of the German-Jewish community, and include members of the Bloomingdale, Lehman, Loeb, Morgenthau, Seligman, Straus, Sulzberger, and Untermyer families