American businessman and philanthrophist (1903–1996)
William Rosenwald
Born
(1903-08-19)August 19, 1903
Wilmette, Illinois
Died
October 31, 1996(1996-10-31) (aged 93)
New York, N,Y.
Education
MIT, (BS)
Occupation(s)
Businessman and philanthropist
Spouse
Mary Kurtz Rosenwald
(m. 1938; died 1985)
Parent(s)
Julius Rosenwald Augusta Nusbaum
Relatives
Edgar B. Stern Jr.(nephew) Philip M. Stern(nephew) Audrey Stern Hess(niece)
William Rosenwald (August 19, 1903 – October 31, 1996) was an American businessman and philanthropist. His American Securities Corporation invested in other business including AMETEK and Western Union International. He helped establish the nationwide United Jewish Appeal in 1939 and made other charitable grants through the William Rosenwald Family Fund. His father was Julius Rosenwald, the former chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Company and a leading philanthropist whose Rosenwald Fund built 5,000 schools for black children in the South a few decades after the Civil War.
WilliamRosenwald (August 19, 1903 – October 31, 1996) was an American businessman and philanthropist. His American Securities Corporation invested in...
Julius Rosenwald (August 12, 1862 – January 6, 1932) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He is best known as a part-owner and leader of Sears...
Rosenwald is an American political activist and philanthropist. An heiress to the Sears Roebuck fortune, Rosenwald is vice president of the William Rosenwald...
Rosenwald is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Cindy Rosenwald (born 1954), American politician Harold Rosenwald (c. 1908–1990), American...
1947 by WilliamRosenwald, the son of Julius Rosenwald, the longtime CEO of Sears, Roebuck and Co. WilliamRosenwald—who had inherited the Rosenwald fortune...
The Rosenwald Fund (also known as the Rosenwald Foundation, the Julius Rosenwald Fund, and the Julius Rosenwald Foundation) was established in 1917 by...
Hillel Silver; and the National Coordinating Committee Fund led by WilliamRosenwald. The three founders emphasized that the funds needed to support Jews...
received millions of dollars from Donors Capital Fund ($6,768,000), the WilliamRosenwald Family Fund, the Middle Road Foundation, and the Abstraction Fund...
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its broadcasts to Europe. He became an adviser to philanthropist WilliamRosenwald in 1944, helping arrange the financing for the construction of 1407...
American film producer and grandson of philanthropist and Sears CEO Julius Rosenwald. He believed that he was the intended target of the thrill killers Leopold...
outstanding scientific work in the field of human biochemistry 1960 WilliamRosenwald, national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal 1957 Senator Herbert...
from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Initially endowed by Julius Rosenwald, the Sears, Roebuck and Company president and philanthropist, it was supported...
Harold Rosenwald (July 23, 1907 – March 9, 1990) was an American lawyer, best known for working on the defense team of Alger Hiss during 1949 and in the...
University, but was rejected on racial grounds. In 1937 he received a Rosenwald Fellowship at the University of Michigan; he stayed there for several...
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District. Samuel Rosenwald purchased the Lyon House on Eighth Street across from Lincoln's home in 1868. Samuel's son Julius Rosenwald went on to become...
from the original on December 30, 2019. Retrieved December 30, 2019. Rosenwald, Michael. "'Great God, he is alive!' The first man executed by electric...
Edith Rosenwald Stern (1895–1980) was an American philanthropist and champion of educational causes in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. She was...
Guggenheim Fellowships in music composition (1934, 1935, 1938), at least one Rosenwald Fellowship, and a Mu Phi Epsilon Citation of Merit. In 1949, he received...
Massachusetts State House outside the House Meeting Room. In 1956 the WilliamRosenwald Family Fund commissioned her to execute a Carrara marble sculpture...
1, 2006). "The Hive". The Atlantic Monthly. Retrieved March 22, 2008. Rosenwald, Michael S. (October 23, 2009). "Gatekeeper of D.C.'s entry: Road to city's...
was designed to serve students in grades 1–6. A grant from the Julius Rosenwald Foundation helped pay for the school. In 1948 a new building was constructed...
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