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Succession at J. & W. Seligman &
Company - Jesse Seligman
Page entitled : Jesse
Seligman as head of J. & W. Seligman & Co
Content of this page is about :
How Jesse Seligman took the lead over William and James and became the head
of J. & W. Seligman after Joseph's death
Extract :
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It is during Jesse
Seligman's tenure and under his guidance that J. & W. Seligman & Co
undertook its most ambitious project : financing the Panama Canal. Like the
Rothschilds with Suez, the Seligmans fell under the spell of Ferdinand De
Lesseps' canal building euphoria. This time the geographic location was in
Central America and the stakes, a sea link between the Atlantic and the
Pacific. The project was certainly interesting the United States of America. ...
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