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Isidor Straus (February 6, 1845 – April 15, 1912) was a Bavarian-born American businessman, politician and co-owner of Macy's department store with his brother Nathan.
Aug 3, 2022 · Isidor and Ida Straus were a well-to-do German-American couple who passed up seats on lifeboats and instead chose to stay together on the RMS Titanic as it sank on April 15, 1912.
Jun 22, 2023 · They are based on a real couple, Isidor and Ida Straus, who died together on the Titanic when it sank on April 15, 1912.
The real story of how the wealthy couple — 67-year-old Isidor Straus was the co-owner of Macy's department store and a former U.S. Congress member— chose to remain aboard the doomed ship...
Isidor Straus. Mr Isidor Straus, 67, was born in Rhenish Bavaria on 6th February, 1845. In 1854 he emigrated to the United States settling, with his family, to the town of Talbotton, Georgia.
Aug 17, 2023 · That man and woman were Cameron's nod to Isidor and Ida Straus, a wealthy American businessman and his wife, who were real passengers on the doomed ship. They refused special treatment and instead chose to die together.
Mar 8, 2017 · At 22, Ida married Isidor Straus, a 26-year-old Palatinate-born American businessman and co-owner of Macy’s department store. Together they had seven children of whom one died in infancy.
May 29, 2018 · Isidor Straus >The American merchant Isidor Straus (1845-1912) was the owner of the >department store R. H. Macy and Company and a U.S. congressman. Isidor Straus was born on Feb. 6, 1845, in Otterberg, Germany, of a cultivated family.
First Class Passenger. Mrs Isidor Straus (Rosalie Ida Blun), 63, of New York, NY, boarded the Titanic at Southampton with her husband Isidor Straus, her maid Ms Ellen Bird and his manservant John Farthing. The Straus's occupied cabins C-55-57. Daily Sketch, April 19, 1912.
Isidor Straus was a trusted advisor to President Grover Cleveland, and he was elected as a Democrat to the fifty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ashbel P. Fitch, and served from January 30, 1894, to March 3, 1895.
