Joseph Seligman was the American banker whose 1877 refusal at Saratoga Springs' Grand Union Hotel became a landmark case. The 2010 opening called it 'the most publicized antisemitic incident in American history up to that point.' Today's opening carries neither the word nor the episode, though antisemitism survives five times in the body. A reader arriving at the opening today does not learn that his hotel refusal was, in Wikipedia's own words, the most publicized antisemitic incident in American history to that point.
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Joseph Seligman Joseph Seligman (1819–1880) was a prominent U.S. banker and businessman. He was born in Baiersdorf , Germany , emigrating to the United States when he was 18. With his brothers, he started a bank, J. & W. Seligman & Co. , with branches in New York , San Francisco , New Orleans , London , Paris and Frankfurt . In the post-Civil War Gilded Age , J. & W. Seligman & Co. invested heavily in railroad finance, in particular acting as broker of transactions engineered by Jay Gould . They underwrote the securities of a variety of companies, participating in stock and bond issues in the railroad and steel and wire industries, investments in Russia and Peru , the formation of the Standard Oil Company , and shipbuilding, bridges, bicycles, mining, and a variety of other industries. In 1877, Seligman was involved in the most publicized antisemitic incident in American history up to that point, being denied entry into the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga Springs, New York . The case became a national cause célèbre .1
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Joseph Seligman (November 22, 1819 – April 25, 1880) was an American banker and businessman.He was the patriarch of what became known as the Seligman family in USA and was subsequently related to the wealthy Guggenheim family through Peggy Guggenheim's mother Floret.[ Our-Crowd-Jewish-Families-History Our-Crowd-Jewish-Families-History/dp/0815604114 Our-Crowd-Jewish-Families-History ]. : Check |url= value ( help )
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Joseph Seligman (November 22, 1819 – April 25, 1880) was an American banker and businessman who founded J. & W. He was the patriarch of what became known as the Seligman family in USA and was subsequently related to the wealthy Guggenheim family through Peggy Guggenheim's mother Florette Birmingham, Stephen (1967).
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American banker and businessman (1819–1880) Joseph Seligman (November 22, 1819 – April 25, 1880) was an American banker and businessman who founded J. & W. He was the patriarch of what became known as the Seligman family in the United States and related to the wealthy Guggenheim family through Peggy Guggenheim's mother Florette.
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