Edmond Guggenheim

Edmond Alfred Guggenheim (January 19, 1888 – March 16, 1972) was an American copper industry businessman and philanthropist. He was a member of the Guggenheim family.

Biography Guggenheim was born on January 19, 1888, in Switzerland to Murry Guggenheim and Leonie Bernheim. His father was the third son of mining magnate Meyer Guggenheim and his mother was descended from a prominent Alsatian Jewish family. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1908 and a Ph.B. from Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University in 1911.

Guggenheim joined the family business in 1916 and headed its mining explorations and was its vice president in charge of South American operations. In 1961, Guggenheim retired as director of the Kennecott Copper Corporation and the Braden Copper Company. He donated the family's Long Island estate, Murry Guggenheim House, to Monmouth University in 1960. He also donated the land on which the Trudeau Institute in Saranac Lake, New York, is built.