Benjamin Guggenheim
Businessman
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Benjamin Guggenheim was an American businessman. He died aboard when the ship sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. His body was never recovered. Early life Guggenheim was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the fifth of seven sons of the wealthy mining magnate Meyer Guggenheim , and Barbara Myers , both originally from Lengnau, Aargau, Switzerland. The first member of his family to enter an institute of higher learning, he entered Columbia College in 1882, matriculating with the class of 1887. However, he found most of his course boring and dropped out after his second year. He also attended the Peirce School of Business , then one of the most prominent business schools in the country. Guggenheim was Jewish. In 1894, he married Florette Seligman , daughter of James Seligman, a senior partner in the firm J. & W. Seligman & Co. and Rosa Seligman, née Content. Her family originated in Baiersdorf, Franconia, Germany. Together, they had three daughters: Benita Rosalind Guggenheim , Marguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim and Barbara Hazel Guggenheim .
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