Global InformationAbram Fitkin information
Abram Edward Fitkin | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 18, 1878 Brooklyn, New York, US |
| Died | March 18, 1933 (aged 54) Manhattan, New York, US |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | A.E. Fitkin |
| Occupation(s) | Investment banker and philanthropist |
| Spouse |
Susan Norris Fitkin (m. 1896) |
Abram Edward Fitkin[1] (September 18, 1878 – March 18, 1933) was an American minister, investment banker, businessman, public utilities operator, and philanthropist, who founded and ran dozens of companies, including A.E. Fitkin & Co.; the National Public Service Corporation; the United States Engineering Corporation; and the General Engineering and Management Corporation, which by 1926 managed 178 utility companies in 18 US states and over 1,000 local communities. As a philanthropist Fitkin donated in excess of $3,000,000 to finance the construction of the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Hospital in Manzini, Swaziland; the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Institution in Scobeyville, New Jersey; the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Pavilion for Children at the New Haven Hospital in Yale; and the Jersey Shore University Medical Center (formerly Raleigh Fitkin and Paul Morgan Memorial Hospital) at Neptune Township, New Jersey.[2]
- ^ Also listed as Abraham Edward Fitkin, see James Terry White, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography Vol. 27 (James T. White & Co., 1939.):142.
- ^ "Our History".