Now there’s an idea! One can hope, anyway.
ETA: Isn’t Schiff an old-time central banking family surname? If memory serves, I believe the patriarch was Jacob Schiff. If memory serves…
For as much as I’ve looked, I haven’t been able to find a solid tie between either Peter or Adam and Jacob, other than Peter being in the gold business, and Adam being in politics, where Jacob was in both.
VERY interdasting. Thank you for your time and effort in having researched. In truth, I've not bothered to look, but somewhere in the back of my mind I seem to recall from having read other anons' digs, that the last name, "Schiff" had been changed from something else -- another surname-- along the way. But maybe I'm thinking about the Rothschilds. Regardless, anymore I'm of the "if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, then it's a duck" camp. ; )
To be sure, I CALL Adam Schiff “Jacob’s grandson” all the time. Whether he is or not in lineage, he sure seems to be in spirit, and it might draw attention to the things Jacob saddled us with.
Now there’s an idea! One can hope, anyway. ETA: Isn’t Schiff an old-time central banking family surname? If memory serves, I believe the patriarch was Jacob Schiff. If memory serves…
For as much as I’ve looked, I haven’t been able to find a solid tie between either Peter or Adam and Jacob, other than Peter being in the gold business, and Adam being in politics, where Jacob was in both.
VERY interdasting. Thank you for your time and effort in having researched. In truth, I've not bothered to look, but somewhere in the back of my mind I seem to recall from having read other anons' digs, that the last name, "Schiff" had been changed from something else -- another surname-- along the way. But maybe I'm thinking about the Rothschilds. Regardless, anymore I'm of the "if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, then it's a duck" camp. ; )
To be sure, I CALL Adam Schiff “Jacob’s grandson” all the time. Whether he is or not in lineage, he sure seems to be in spirit, and it might draw attention to the things Jacob saddled us with.
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