Joseph Seligman
Joseph Seligman · Economics & Business
Bavarian-born founder of J. & W. Seligman & Co., a 19th-century banking powerhouse that financed Union war bonds and American railroads.
1819, Baiersdorf, Bavaria — 1880
Baiersdorf, Bavaria
Joseph Seligman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Bavarian-born founder of J. & W. Seligman & Co., a 19th-century banking powerhouse that financed Union war bonds and American railroads.
Joseph Seligman was a Bavarian-born Jewish American banker who emigrated to the United States and founded J. & W. Seligman & Co. with his brothers. The firm became a 19th-century banking powerhouse, helping finance Union war bonds during the Civil War and later American railroads. His public exclusion from a Saratoga Springs hotel in 1877 became a landmark episode in the history of American antisemitism.
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Bavarian-born founder of J. & W. Seligman & Co., a 19th-century banking powerhouse that financed Union war bonds and American railroads.
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