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Rosalie Ida Straus (née Blün; February 6, 1849 – April 15, 1912) was a German-American homemaker and wife of Isidor Straus, U.S. Congressman and co-owner of the Macy's department store. She and her husband died during the sinking of the Titanic .
Weil married Minnie Straus, daughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, on May 30, 1904, at the Straus villa. [7] They had three children: Evelyn, Richard, and Frederick Peter. [ 1 ] His son, Richard Jr., was president of Macy's .
Jesse Straus was born in Manhattan on June 25, 1872, as the eldest son of the German immigrants Isidor Straus (1845–1912) and Ida Straus (1849–1912), both of whom died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Isidor was co-owner of the department store R.H. Macy & Co., along with his uncle Nathan Straus.
First-class passenger Isidor Straus refused to take a seat on a lifeboat when women and children were still waiting to get off the sinking ship, and he was joined by his wife Ida, who would not ...
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush’s wife, Wendy Rush, is the great-great-granddaughter of first-class passengers Isidor and Ida Straus, according to archival records published by The New York Times on ...
Lazarus Straus was the eldest of fourteen children of Isaac Straus, who in 1806 commissioned Napoleon Bonaparte to develop a concept for the emancipation of Jews in Bavaria on the left bank of the Rhine, and his wife Johanette. Isaac Straus took the surname Straus in 1808 following a Napoleonic decree. [1]
Upon his death in 1899, Cornelius had amassed $100 million — over $3 billion in today's money. ... Isidor and Ida Straus have been depicted in multiple movies and have a memorial garden in New ...
Ida Straus; Isidor Straus – owner of Macy's Department Store, Democratic member of the 53rd Congress of the United States, victim of the sinking of the RMS Titanic; William Lafayette Strong, Mayor of New York City; William Matheus Sullivan, prominent New York City lawyer and patron of music; Karl Struss