Isaac Moses
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American merchant and banker (1742–1818)
Isaac Moses | |
|---|---|
| Portrait of Moses by John Jarvis | |
| Born | c. 1742 |
| Died | 16 April 1818 (aged c. 76) |
Isaac Moses (c. 1742 – 16 April 1818) was an American merchant and banker who helped establish the Bank of North America in 1781.[1] [2] Born in the Holy Roman Empire, he emigrated to the Thirteen Colonies in 1764.
References
[edit ]- ^ "Moses, Isaac". American National Biography . Oxford University Press. (subscription required)
- ^ Stephen, Birmingham (1967). Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York . New York: Harper & Row. p. 43.
Further reading
[edit ]- Marcus, Jacob Rader (1989). "The traditional economy: Isaac Moses and Moses Myers". United States Jewry, 1776–1985, Volume 12. Wayne State University Press. pp. 142–145. ISBN 0-8143-2186-0.
- Christopher Carnes, Mark; American Council of Learned Societies (2002). American National Biography: Supplement. Vol. 2. Oxford University Press. p. 397. ISBN 9780195222029. OCLC 52547928.
Categories:
- 1740s births
- 1818 deaths
- 18th-century American merchants
- 19th-century American merchants
- 19th-century American Jews
- 19th-century German Jews
- American Ashkenazi Jews
- American people of German-Jewish descent
- German Ashkenazi Jews
- Emigrants from the Holy Roman Empire to the Thirteen Colonies
- American business biography, 19th-century birth stubs