James Mayer de Rothschild |
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| Weekly Arizona Miner (Prescott, Arizona) Saturday, January 9, 1869, p. 4 DEATH OF BARON ROTHSCHILD--The death of Baron James Rothschild at Paris, on Saturday, November 8th, is announced. He was the head of the French branch of the great European banking house of the Rothschilds, and the youngest and only surviving son of the founder of the house--Mayer Anselm Rothschild, of Frankfort-on-the-Main. With Baron James, the second generation of this great family of money lenders, so often the prop of tumbling thrones, the ready succors of exhausted treasuries, has passed away. There were five sons, who were taken into the "House of Rothschild" as fast as they became of age. These were Anselm, Solomon, Nathan Mayer, Charles and James. Anselm was his father's partner and successor at Frankfort; the second son, at first traveling partner, was eventually established at Vienna; Nathan Mayer settled in London in 1798, and became the most prominent, as he was generally deemed the ablest, financier of the family; Charles settled at Naples in 1821; and James, after being awhile with his brother in Vienna, established himself in Paris. Thus, when the father, Mayer Anselm, died, his sons had increased the influence of the house, and stood at the head of five immense establishments, united in a copartnership the most wealthy and extensive the world has ever seen. James was born at Frankfort on the 5th of May, 1792, and took up his residence in Paris in 1812. A few years later he was appointed Consul- General for Austria in France. During the early years of his life in the French Empire he was interested in railroad affairs to a great extent, and was noted for the boldness of his speculations. After the great famine of 1847, he was charged with having caused much of the fearful suffering of that time by his transactions, and became very unpopular with the mass of the people, so that in 1848, when the revolution broke out, a portion of his property, the Castle of Suresnes, was sacked by the populace. He was married late in life, to his niece, the daughter of his brother Solomon. He founded several Jewish charitable institutions during his life, and gave large sums of money at various times to other like institutions. In Paris he was known, on account of his frequent dealings with crowned heads, as "Le preteur desRois," "The Kings' money lender." His title of Baron was received from Austria. The Austrian Emperor conferred on each of the brothers a patent of nobility with the title of Baron of the Empire, on account of the promptness and courtesy with which they responded to Metternich's application for a loan in 1813. |
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