Isaac Henry Mayer

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Isaac Henry Mayer also in the spelling variant Isaac H. Mayer (born July 6, 1864 in Chicago , Illinois , † September 24, 1967 ibid) was an American lawyer .

Life

Family and education

Isaac Henry Mayer, member of the Jewish religious community , son of the Bavarian- born businessman Henry D. Mayer (1807-1887) and his wife Clara (née Goldsmith, 1820-1904), who was also from Bavaria, entered the Jones School shortly before she fell victim to a fire in 1871. He then moved to Brown School, where he graduated in 1877, then to Central High School, where he graduated in 1880. He then enrolled in the academic department of Yale College , where he earned the degree of Bachelor of 1884 Arts . In the following years he turned to studying law at the law firm Kraus & Mayer and at the Union College of Law. After taking an examination at the Court of Appeal , he was admitted to the bar (Illinois State Bar Association) in March 1886.

Isaac Henry Mayer married Rosa, the daughter of the businessman Max A. Meyer, in Chicago on December 30, 1891. From this connection came the children Robert H., born 1893, Walter M., born 1897, Frank D., born 1899, and Clara Louise, married Lorch, born in 1907. Isaac Henry Mayer, who has a summer residence in the Pomander Walk apartment complex in Glencoe entertained, last resided in Chicago's Drake Hotel, died in the fall of 1967 at the age of 103.

Professional background

Isaac Henry Mayer was accepted as a partner in the law firm Kraus, Mayer & Stein in 1890 . Mayer continued his legal work in the successor companies Moran, Mayer & Meyer , Mayer, Meyer & Austrian and finally Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt , in 1922 he was appointed Senior Member. Isaac Henry Mayer was a member of the American Bar Association , the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association and the American Judicature Society. He was also a member of the Union League, Midday, Yale, Standard and Lake Short Country clubs.

Isaac Henry Mayer, one of Chicago's star attorneys of his time, emerged as an expert in trademark and competition law .

literature

  • Royal L. La Touche, John Henry Potter: Chicago and its resources twenty years after, 1871-1891: a commercial history showing the progress and growth of two decades from the Great Fire to the present time, Chicago Times Co., Chicago, Ill ., 1892, p. 167.
  • Leonard Mayhew Daggett: Isaac H. Mayer, in: A history of the class of eighty-four, Yale College, 1880-1914, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven, Conn., 1914.
  • Hyman Louis Meites: History of the Jews of Chicago, Chicago Jewish Historical Society, Chicago, Ill., 1924. ISBN 0-9229-8404-2 . Pp. 98, 405, 410.
  • Who's who in Chicago and Illinois, volume VIII, Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1945, p. 582.
  • Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, Inc: The Martindale-Hubbell law directory, volume I, Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, Inc., New York, 1949, p. 641.
  • The American Bar, the Canadian Bar, the International Bar, Volume 3, RB Forster & Associates, Minneapolis, Minn., 1966, p. 261.
  • Who was who in America with world notables: volume IV, 1961-1968, Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1968, p. 623.

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personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Isaac Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayer, Isaac H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1967
Place of death Chicago , Illinois