Meyer Guggenheim (1828-1905)
Mining & Smelting Industrialist; Patriarch of the Guggenheim Family
He moved his family and business empire to New York in the early 1880s. As a compromise to his "profoundly religious" wife they joined the Temple Emanu-El on Fifth Avenue but Meyer's primary reason for the move was to ensure that his sons received the best secular education available. As such, none of the Guggenheim children maintained an attachment to their ancestral faith and by the start of the 21st century, four generations later, there were no more Jewish Guggenheims. He and his wife were survived by 10-children (listed above).
