tf, Dup dig + Robert W Schiff
Remember Schiff's Shoes?
MAJOR MONEY, all the top tier museums, unsure if the dead billionaire son made his money (other than the 334% Snapple cashout) or inherited. These people were rich AF with a capital F.
The Schiff's of 1,000 shoe stores
Following the wife and thru her, the billionaire father and shoe store tycoon
Mildred was born in 1920 to a shoe store tycoon, Robert W Schiff (can't find a connection to AS with a light dig). This family is beyond loaded, who got the stack?
Married Herbert C. Lee, October 21, 1941. Children: Thomas H., Richard S., Jonathan.
Father:
Robert W. Schiff
Mother:
Rebecca (Lurie) Schiff
Spouse:
Herbert C. Lee
child:
Richard S. Lee
child:
Jonathan Lee
child:
Thomas H. Lee (DECD) Presumably people this rich made plans for "succession" more than a hundred years ago. I doubt Thomas's widow who he filed to divorce will gain much (relatively speaking, life changing for most)
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 2—Robert W. Schiff, who retired in 1968 as chairman of SCOA Industries, shoe retailers and manufacturers, died yesterday. He was 85 years old.
Mr. Schiff built the concern he founded here in 1920 as the Schiff Shoe Company into Shoe Corporation of America, which was estimated 20 years ago to meet 15 per cent of American shoe needs through more than 600 retail stores. In 1969 it became SCOA Industries, employing more than 10,000 persons in about 1,000 stores and nine manufacturing plants.
Mr. Schiff, who was born in Russian Lithuania, received a Talmudic education before coming to the United States in 1905. He recalled in 1951 that he had planned to resume his studies in Jewish law, but found himself instead as clerk in a shoe store. He tried various businesses in Cincinnati, Dallas and Dayton.
As a partner in a shoe store in Marion, he envisioned the possibility of nationwide chainstore outlets. Moving to Columbus, he built his organization on a basis of centralized purchasing from manufacturers but individualized operation of the local store. Chains that the company operates now include the Gallenkamp shoe stores and formerly included the A. S. Beck Shoe Corporation.
Mr. Schiff's philanthropic activities included the United Jewish Fund and Council, which he had headed in Columbus, the National Cabinet of the United Jewish Appeal, Yeshiva University in New York and Capital University in Columbus; the gastric research laboratory at the University of Cincinnati and the Eye‐Bank for Sight Restoration in New York.
Surviving are his widow, the former Ann Rose Neff; three children of his previous marriage, to the late Rebecca Lurie; Herbert H., now chairman of SCOA; Mrs. Mildred Lee and Mrs. Fredi Levin; a brother, Albert; two sisters, Gertrude and Rifka; 14 grandchildren and 15 greatgrandchildren.
https://fortune.com/2023/02/24/thomas-h-lee-obituary-leveraged-buyout-legend-dead-at-78/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61137228/robert-w-schiff
https://www.herald-dispatch.com/special/lost_huntington/lost-huntington-schiffs-shoes/article_2047c148-6954-50c0-99e7-93b7bb754c58.html
https://prabook.com/web/mildred_schiff.lee/388298
https://archive.ph/l4SA8#selection-435.0-463.287