The Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 10, Ed. 1, Thursday, November 26, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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HOUSTON TEXAS NOVEMBER 20 1908
BARONESS DE HIRSCH
Paper Read Before Jewish Lit-
erary Society at Houston Sun-
day Nov 22 by Miss Bet
tie Mendelsohn
Clara de Hirsch wife ofJBarow
Maurice de Hirsch was born at
Antwerp June 13 1833 and died
in Paris April 1 1899
The baroness received a lib-
eral education She was an acr
complished linguist able to speak
and write fluently in French
German English and Italian
After leaving the schoolroom she
acted as her fathers secretary
and in this way became conver-
sant not only with his business
affairs but also with his work
as legislator and philanthropist
This proved to be a valuable ex-
perience during her husbands
lifetime and particularly so after
his death when she was left sole
administrator of his large estate
She was a ready writer and was-
her husbands only assistant
while he was abroad and at
home when his secretaries were
overburdened she often relieved
them of long and difficult tasks
In 1855 she was married to
Baron de Hirsch and lived in
Brussels Munich and ginally in
Paris
Two children were born to
them a girl and a boy The
daughter died in infancy and
the son Lucien a gifted and
promising young man of thirty
died in 1887
The baron in reply to a mes-
sage of sympathy said My
son I have lost but not my heir
humanity is my heir From
this blow the baroness never re-
covered nor did she ever lay
aside her apparel of mourning
Shortly after his sons death the
baron went to Constantinople
The baroness accompanied him
and while there she spent most
of her time in the poor districts
of the city and after careful in
vestigation distributed more
than 125000 among needy fam-
ilies without distihetipn of creed
Uninfluenced Baron de Hirsch
might have devoted his fortune
to totally different purposes but
in philanthropic matters he yield-
ed to his wifes judgment It
was she who gently guided his
interests toward philanthropy
She would not permit money of
which the poor persecuted and
oppressed Jews stood in so much
need to be turned aside into for-
eign channels She determined
that her husband should turn his
energies to relieving the distress
of his coreligionists
In the work of founding colo-
nies in Argentina and Canada
as an outlet for the persecuted
Jews in Russia and the Orient
she was her husbands associate
and inspiration Shewas thor-
oughly conversant with all his
schemes so that at his death she
was able to continue develop and
complete as well as add to the
undertakings begun by him
The baron was a remarkable
man gifted with extraordinary
powers with a genius for large
affairs which was displayed
even in a higher degree in his
gigantic plans for the exodus of
the Russian Jews than in the
amassing of his great fortune
He loved pleasure but disliked
vanity He was not endowed
with sentiment nor was he re-
ligious in the ordinary sense
His ideals were all merged in
his devotion to his farreaching
and carefully planned scheme of
benevolence No appeals made
to him and there were many
to endow some great institution
in France or to erect some ar
tistic public building to perpet-
uate his name and family ever
induced him to turn aside from
his plans for effecting the emi-
gration of the Russian Jews and
converting them into agricultu
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Office 41415 Temple Hide
PHONE 693
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Successor to
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Monuments and Building
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Accident
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INSURANCE
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Specialist
In Diseases of the Skin Nervous
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Houston Text
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Goldberg, E. The Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 10, Ed. 1, Thursday, November 26, 1908, newspaper, November 26, 1908; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth84745/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .