Lazarus would say, 'No…but I'll have it in three minutes!' and then he'd just sit down and write it out, with pencil, on a piece of wrapping I remember hearing the fellow from the Ohio State Ralph Lazarus wrote the ads when I first went into the store in 1890. While Fred and Ralph did all the buying, advertising, bookkeeping, and some of the selling in the early days of their store ownership, they added personnel gradually and by 1881 the store employed 22 clerks. Simon Lazarus reputedly "caused many a heart and soul to soarĪloft on the wings of devotion to their God." Amelia Lazarus shared the store's ownership with her sons during the 22 years of her widowhood, until her death in 1899. When Simon Lazarus died in 1877, Columbus lost not only the founder of what would be its signature store but also its first ordained rabbi. Sent down to the Scioto River with a bucket to get water for mopping the store floors before school in the morning-sometimes he would have to enlist his brother's help in knocking holes in the ice before Fassig to the left, Harvey Coit,Ĭlothing merchant to the right, and George Elliott, photographer, upstairs.įred and Ralph, the two boys, worked in the store before and after school, and the family lived near their place of business, on the site of one of the present-day Lazarus garages. Opened with a modest capital of less than $3000, the store measured less than 20 x 50 feet, boasted a staff of one clerk, and bordered boot and shoe dealer F. Was… a real business man, always far ahead of the times… and always so awfully good to poor folks." Assisted by his wife Amelia and sons Fred and Ralph, Simon and his store gradually began Simon Lazarus "was short…and quiet…but, my, how very cordial he In 1850, a rabbinical scholar by the name of Simon Lazarus arrived in Columbus, and in 1851 he opened the Lazarus store. Ralph Lazarus (Executive Vice President to 1952 and then Vice President Federated Department Stores) (Executive Vice President to 1959 and then President) (Vice President to 1947 President 1947 to 1959 and then Chairman)Ĭharles Y. (Vice President to 1944 President, Federated Department Stores from 1944 died 1973)
Simon (President from 1917 until death in 1947)įred Jr. Ralph (Partner and manager from 1874 died 1903) Fred (Partner and manager from 1874 died 1917)
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