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Nathan Straus (January 31, 1848 – January 11, 1931) was an American businessman and philanthropist who co-owned two of New York City's largest department stores, R. H. Macy & Company and Abraham & Straus. He was the namesake for the Israeli city Netanya.
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Apr 10, 2024 · Straus family. Nathan Straus (born Jan. 31, 1848, Otterberg, Bavaria [Germany]—died Jan. 11, 1931, New York, N.Y., U.S.) was an owner of Macy’s department store in New York City and a pioneer in public health and child welfare. He has been considered the person who did the most for the city’s welfare in the first quarter of the 20th century.
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Dec 20, 2021 · Nathan Straus, Jewish businessman, philanthropist and social activist was shocked when that otherwise healthy-looking animal on his farm died, so he ordered an autopsy, which revealed that the cow’s lungs were loaded with tuberculosis. It was that moment, in 1892, when Straus became a fierce advocate for the pasteurization of milk.
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Born in Bavaria in 1848, Nathan Straus came to Georgia with his mother, brothers and sister in 1854. The Strauses moved to New York City after the Civil War, where Nathan and his older brother Isidore became the sole owners and managing directors of the R. H. Macy department store. In 1914, deeply affected by the loss of Isidore and his wife ...
Oct 9, 2017 · Nationally, Straus established, at his own expense, 297 milk stations in 36 cities. The national death rate for infants fell from 125.1 per thousand in 1891 to 15.8 in 1925. Altogether it is estimated that the efforts of Nathan Straus directly saved the lives of 445,800 children. Nathan Straus’ First Milk Depot, opened in the summer of 1893.
Apr 10, 2024 · Over and above his public welfare efforts on behalf of milk pasteurization and preventing tuberculosis, Straus’s largesse and contributions were by no means limited to Jewish institutions and causes
Sep 22, 2021 · Nathan, born January 31, 1848, was the second son (and third child) in the legendary family of Lazarus Straus, who brought his wife and children from Otterberg, Bavaria to the United States in 1854. After time in rural Georgia, and then Philadelphia, the family settled in New York, where Lazarus ran a china and glassware-import business.
