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Lazarus Straus (April 25, 1809 – January 14, 1898) was a German-American trader and entrepreneur . Family. Lazarus Straus was the eldest of fourteen children of Isaac Straus, who in 1806 commissioned Napoleon Bonaparte to develop a concept for the emancipation of Jews in Bavaria on the left bank of the Rhine, and his wife Johanette.
Lazarus Straus, son of Isaac and Johanette Straus, was born in Otterberg Germany in 1809. He was the oldest of fourteen. In 1838 he married a cousin, Davora (Fannie) Levi. The couple had one daughter, Karoline. Fanny died in 1843 and Lazarus married his first cousin Sara the following year. They had five children, Isidor, Hermine, Nathan, Jakob ...
STRAUS, U.S. family of department store merchants, industrialists, public servants and philanthropists. Its founder, LAZARUS STRAUS (1809–1898), went to the U.S. in 1852 and settled in Talbotton, Georgia.
Straus was born into a Jewish family in Otterberg in the former Palatinate, then ruled by the Kingdom of Bavaria. He was the first of five children of Lazarus Straus (1809–1898) and his second wife and first cousin, Sara Straus (1823–1876).
Lazarus Straus (* 25. April 1809 in Otterberg bei Kaiserslautern; † 14. Januar 1898 in New York City) war ein deutsch-US-amerikanischer Kaufmann und Unternehmer. Er gründete 1866 ein Geschäft für Tafelgeschirr und Glaswaren in Manhattan, das zu einem bedeutenden Einzelhandels- und Kaufhauskonzern expandierte.
Nathan Straus: Oscar Solomon Straus: American family, originally from Otterberg, in the Rhenish Palatinate. The earliest member known was one Lazarus, born in the first half of the eighteenth century, whose son Jacob Lazarus was known also as Jacques Lazare.
Straus Historical Society. The Straus Historical Society fosters educational activities with respect to the settlement of Jews in the United States and, in particular, the family of Lazarus and Sara Straus, their ancestors and their descendants.
