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Abraham Stearn (1847-1921) was a Cleveland, Ohio-born philanthropist and financier. He joined Moses, Levy and Co., a fancy
goods and toy store, in 1868. It became Levy and Stearn in 1872 and Stearn and Co., ca. 1905. Stearn was a director of the
Society for Savings, the American Savings Bank and other institutions. He was a trustee of the Foundation of Jewish Charities
and of the Jewish Orphan Asylum. He married Bertha Rohrheimer in 1876. The collection consists of individual portraits of
Abraham Stearn; individual and group portraits of family members, friends, and associates; views of the Abraham Stearn residences
on Case Avenue and Magnolia Drive; exteriors of the Levy and Stearn Department Stores on Superior Avenue and on Euclid Avenue;and
portraits of the officers of the Federation of Jewish Charities.
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