Henry Siegel

Henry Siegel (March 17, 1852 – August 25, 1930) was an American businessman and co-founder of the Siegel-Cooper Company.

Early life Siegel was born on March 17, 1852, to a Jewish family in Eubigheim, Kingdom of Württemberg. In 1867, he immigrated to the United States where he worked as a clerk by in Washington, D.C., Parkersburg, West Virginia, and Lawrenceburg, Pennsylvania. In the same year, Siegel bought the Simpson Crawford Company (with one store in New York across the street from Siegel-Cooper) and the Schlesinger and Mayer Company (with one store in Chicago and one store in New York) and moved to New York City. he also created a holding company, the Siegel Stores Corporation, as the parent for his retail investments in New York, Chicago, and Boston. In 1913, Siegel-founded banks which had over 15,000 depositors and were operated in conjunction with his stores collapsed. Siegel was convicted and served a short jail sentence for using false financial statements to obtain credit.

In 1898, he married his second wife, Marie Vaughan Wilde. Marie was the mother of Georgine Wilde, the first wife of Count Carlo Dentice di Frasso. They divorced in 1918.

Also in 1918, he married his third wife, Henrietta Struble, a 40-year-old telephone operator from Geneseo, New York. They divorced in 1927.

Henry Siegel died at Paul Kimball Hospital in Lakewood Township, New Jersey, on August 25, 1930.