"An Extremely Simplified Family-Business Tree"
~• as drawn by Stephen Alexander in his 1967 book Our Crowd
~• for simplicity's sake: With a few exceptions, only names on chart will be included as profiles in the project. Others were contributors to the book.

Description

• one sheet( find this in the first edition: ISBN 978-0815604112 and Library of Congress No. 66-20725
• 17 white panels on a green field, each represents a firm explained in the book
  • above each panel is the name of the firm, these written in white
    • each of the 17 is listed in the next section of this project
• dotted lines indicate marriages
• double underlining of an individual indicates membership in said firm
• asterisk indicates an immigrant

FIRMS

the seventeen panels in the pedigree chart (shown)
w/initial name

1. Abraham = Abraham & Straus (w/Rothchild) ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_%26_Straus
2. Bache = J.S. Bache and Company ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bache_%26_Co.
3. Belmont (anglicized version of Schönberg) = August Belmont & Co. ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Belmont
4. Goldman = Goldman, Sachs & Co. ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs
5. Guggenheim = M. Guggenheim Sons ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guggenheim_family
6. Hallgarten = Hallgarten & Co ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallgarten_%26_Company
7. Heidelbach = Heidelbach Ickelheimer & Co ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Heidelbach
8. Kuhn = Kuhn and Loeb ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuhn,_Loeb_%26_Co.
9. Lehman = Lehman Brothers ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman_Brothers
10. Lewisohn = Lewisohn Bros. ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Lewisohn
11. Loeb = Albert Loeb & Co ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Henry_Loeb
12. Loeb = Carl M. Loeb, Rhodes & Co (w/Rothchild) ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_M._Loeb
13. Seligman = J. & W. Seligman and Co ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._%26_W._Seligman_%26_Co.
14. Speyer = Speyer & Co. ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Speyer
15. Straus = R.H. Macy & Co. ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidor_Straus
16. Straus = S.W. Straus & Co. ; https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Straus-31
17. Wertheim = Wertheim ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wertheim

There are a few additional surnames in the green field which are not enclosed in any of the white panels. These are

• Rothchild eg. Frank Rothschild
• Bronfman
• Rosenwald
• Hammerslough

People who provided Sources for Birmingham's Book (from front matter of the 1967 edition)

• topic: Lewisjohn
  • Mrs. Richard J. Berhard & Mrs. John L. Simon
• topic: Frances Seligman Hellman & brother Edwin Seligman
  • Geoffrey Theodore Hellman
• topic: Herbert H. Lehman
  • Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman
• topic : Prince Poniatowsky (letter translation)
  • Geoffrey Theodore Hellman
• John M. Schiff (1904-1987) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Schiff
• Frederick Marcus Warburg (1897-1973) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_M._Warburg