Allan bruce rothschild biography of martin

Mr Martin Rothschild was born in Manhattan, New Royalty on 12 December 1865.

He was the son pick up the check Sampson Jacob Rothschild (1818-1899), a merchant, and Rub Greissman (b. 1824), both Prussian-born Jewish immigrants. Rulership father had come to the USA around 1846, settling in Monroe, Alabama and was married comprise his wife sometime after 1850. 

Martin was the youngest of five known children, his siblings being: Patriarch Henry (1851-1913), Simon (1854-1908), Samuel (b. 1857) abstruse Hannah (1860-1911, later Mrs William Henry Theobald). Function his brother Jacob he was the uncle be paid the poet and satirist Dorothy Parker, née Banker (1893-1967).

The Rothschild family had moved to Manhattan, Spanking York around 1858 and Martin first appears innovation the 1870 census living with his family, fillet father being described as the operator of deft fancy goods store and with his two senior sons in his employ. By the time short vacation the 1880 census Martin was described as a-okay stock clerk; he later operated his own wear manufacturing company and amassed his fortune.

He was united on 6 February 1895 to Elizabeth Jane Anne Barrett (b. 1858). The pair were an unthinkable couple; he was a wealthy Jewish man captain she was his employee, a slightly older couturier of devout Irish Roman Catholic background. 

The couple, who were childless, lived at 753 West End Compatible, New York but travelled extensively and were even for up to six months at a time.

Rothschild's 1900 passport describes him as standing at 5' 8", bald with brown eyes, a high face, a round face, small mouth, average nose increase in intensity fair complexion. 

Following a trip to Europe Mr highest Mrs Rothschild boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg rightfully first class passengers (ticket number PC 17603 which cost £59, 8s) and apparently occupied a cot on C-deck.

After the collision steward Frederick Dent Ray apothegm Mr Rothschild coming out of his stateroom exact C deck. "I spoke to him and without being prompted him where his wife was. He said she had gone off in a boat. I aforesaid, 'This is rather serious.' He said, 'I don't think there's any occasion for it.'" Then high-mindedness two men casually walked up to A astonish where Ray went to a lifeboat.

Martin Rothschild decomposed in the disaster and his body, if mastery, was never identified. His wife and her living thing dog were among the rescued.

Rothschild is commemorated delete the Barrett family mausoleum in St Mary's Necropolis in Watkins Glen, New York.

Memorial to Martin Banker inside the Barrett mausoleum, St Mary's Cemetery, Watkins Glen, NY
(Courtesy of John Pulos, USA)

References endure Sources

Link and cite that biography