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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.
“In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.”— Alex Haley “It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness ...
The family was founded by Pop and Mom Lewis (Roy Lewis Sr. and Pauline Lewis, née Holloway), who married in 1925. In 1951 they chose the name The Lewis Family when singing at a Woodmen of the World meeting. Later that year, they did their first recording sessions, released on Sullivan Records. [3] [4]
He was born to a Reform Jewish family in Manhattan, New York City, the son of Babetta (née Newgass) and German-born immigrant Mayer Lehman, one of the three brothers who co-founded Lehman Brothers financial services firm. His brother was New York Court of Appeals judge Irving Lehman.
W.D.H. Sellar and William Matheson pointed out that in lands held by the clan (Lewis, in Wester Ross, and Waternish on the Isle of Skye), there were traditions of the Nicolsons/MacNicols preceding them. [9] Of Lewis itself, tradition had it that the Macleods gained the island through a marriage with a Nicolson heiress.
The 21 Lewis family members included 12 children, three unmarried daughters of Charles and Lucy, and six adults. [28] [f] When they arrived, life was difficult due to the fear of attack by Native Americans, shortage of coins for purchases, and a severe depression. [30] Family members suffered from recurring malaria and other health problems.
Thomas Griffin (January 1, 1889 – September 29, 1915) and Meeks Griffin were brothers and prominent Black farmers who lived in Chester County, South Carolina.They were executed via the electric chair in 1915 for the murder in 1913 of 75-year-old John Q. Lewis, a Confederate veteran of Blackstock, South Carolina.
Teeter's law: "The language of the family you know best always turns out to be the most archaic." A wry observation about the biases of historical linguists, explaining how different investigators can arrive at radically divergent conceptions of the proto-language of a family. Named after the American linguist Karl V. Teeter.