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Herbert Nathan Straus (1881-1933) Vice-President of Macy's Department Store, New York Family
Herbert Nathan Straus was the youngest boy, the sixth child of Isidor and Ida Straus. He was born in 1881 in New York City. On July 15, 1907, he married Cincinnati, OH native, Therese Kuhn, daughter of Edward and Millie Kuhn. They had three sons: Edward Kuhn, Oliver Herbert and John Wendell Straus.
Straus elected to raise their children and to spend most of their married life in a comfortable but decidedly unglamorous At this point, a mystery emerges concerning Isidor and Ida’s wood frame house on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Isador Straus, principal owner of the R. H. Macy store, had three sons, Jesse, Percy and Herbert Nathan, who succeeded him in the business following Isador's loss on the Titanic in 1912. Percy and Herbert were early assemblers of farf!ls for country estates. Their first purchases were in 1908.
2 maj 2019 · Throwback to 1908 and Cobble Close, Middletown! In 1908, Herbert Nathan Straus and Percy Straus purchased adjoining farms in the Middletown hill region...
15 sie 2022 · The property was built by Herbert Nathan Straus, the son of Macy’s co-owner Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida. Herbert was a vice-president of the company and a philanthropist who died in 1933...
She was the fourth child, the first daughter of Isidor and Ida Blun Straus. Sara's birth was recorded in the Straus family Hymnal for "Divine Service in The Temple Emanu-El" along with that of her sib-lings: Jesse Isidor, Clarence Elias, Percy Selden, Minnie, Herbert Nathan and Vivian.
