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KAUFMANN

PINCHOT

and Fellow of the New York Academy of
Medicine. As an author on genito-urinary
surgical subjects, notably upon the surgery of
the prostate and kidney, Dr. Chetwood is wellknown. Among his works may be included
"Compend of Genito-Urinary Diseases"
(1892); "Venereal Diseases" (Keyes and
Chetwood, 1900); "Text-book on GenitoUrinary Surgery" (1911); "Practice of
Urology" (1913). He married Jeannette
Campbell Mecke, of Philadelphia, in 1891.
KAUFMANN, Isaac, merchant, b. at Vierheim, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, 15 May,
1851, son of Abraham and Sarah (Wolf)
Kaufmann. He attended schools in his native
town until his sixteenth year. In May, 1869,
attracted by the superior opportunities in
America, he emigrated, and located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In March, 1871, in association with his brother Jacob, he opened
a small clothing store, under the firm style of
J. Kaufmann and Brother. Later two other
brothers joined the firm, and a company was
incorporated under the name of Kaufmann
Brothers. The business increased so rapidly
that another store was opened in the north
side of Pittsburgh, and the two were conducted
successfully for several months. In 1878, however, the brothers decided to close the two
stores and opened one at Smithfield and Diamond Streets. By 1913, the business occupied
the whole of a twelve-story building, having a
floor space of 700,000 feet. About the same
time the company was reorganized as Kaufmann Department Store, Incorporated, with
Isaac Kaufmann as President. Starting from
a small inconspicuous store in the south side
of Pittsburgh, the business has now developed
into one of the largest department houses in
the world. Throughout his career Mr. Kaufmann was generously active in civic and
philanthropic movements. Conjointly with his
brother, Morris, he founded the "Emma Farm",
a conspicuous philanthropic institution of
Pittsburgh. He was a member of the Westmoreland County and Concordia clubs of
Pittsburgh. Mr. Kaufmann married, first, 9
August, 1877, Emma, daughter of Nathan and
Jeanette (Lehman) Kaufmann. She died in
1894, leaving one daughter, Lillian S., wife of
Edgar J. Kaufmann of Pittsburgh. Mr.
Kaufmann married, second, 22 March, 1899,
Belle C., daughter of Jonas Meyer of Quincy,
Illinois. In 1915 when the department store
celebrated its forty-fourth anniversary, Mr.
Kaufmann published the following letter to
the people in the newspapers of Pittsburgh:
"Forty-four years ago my brother and I
founded this firm. Between us we had $1,500
in cash but we were millionaires in hope and
confidence-filled with the boyish faith in ourselves and the young city which had begun
to stir with vast ambitions. I was the head of
the firm, and the bookkeeper, the salesman, the
shipping clerk, bundle wrapper and occasionally the delivery system. And I am not
ashamed to acknowledge that I put up the
shutters and swept the floors. We kept readymade clothes, hats and men's furnishings; did
merchant tailoring. And out of that grew this
business. How ridiculous I would have considered the idea that the day would come when

we would have four thousand employees, and
a store in which you can buy anything from
a paper of pins to a diamond necklace-from
a necktie to the complete furnishings of any
kind of home-that we would spend as much
in a single day for newspaper advertisement
as the sum total of our capital. Why, I could
have stuck the whole shop-lock, stock and
barrel-into my present office and used the remaining space for a bedroom."
PINCHOT, James Wallace, merchant, b.
at Milford, Pike County, Pennsylvania, 1831;
d. at Washington, D. C., 6 February, 1908, son
of Constantine Cyril Desire and Eliza
(Cross) Pinchot. His father was a native of
Breteuil, France, a soldier of Napoleon, who
left home in consequence of the Bourbon restoration, and came to America in 1815, and
settled at Milford, Pennsylvania. Mr. James
Wallace Pinchot was educated in the private
schools of his native town, and in 1850 he located himself in New York City where he
established a merchant business from which
he retired in 1875. He built at Milford, Pennsylvania, his birthplace, a superb home in
Breton Chateau style, with a large tract of
garden and woodland adjoining the estate.
Mr. Pinchot had been for many years a liberal
patron of the arts and sciences. He was first
Treasurer and member of the executive committee for the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty, and
one of the early subscribers to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Later he became interested in forestry. He was the founder of the
Yale Forestry School at New Haven, Connecticut, the Yale Summer School of Forestry, the
Milford Forest Experiment Station, at Milford, Pennsylvania. The Yale Forestry
School was founded in the spring of 1900 by
a gift of $150,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Pinchot,
which provides for the establishment of a department at Yale University to be known as
Yale University Forestry School, for instruction and research in forestry. The gift also
provides for a summer school of forestry at
Milford, Pennsylvania, on the estate of Mrs.
Pinchot. This endowment was increased in
the spring of 1903 by an additional gift of
$50,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Pinchot and Mr.
Gifford Pinchot. In 1882 Mr. Pinchot placed
at the disposal of the forest school his woodland of over sixty acres, and considerable open
ground for tree planting. Mr. Pinchot received the honorary degree of A.M. at Yale
University in 1905, and Professor Walker on
behalf of the Yale corporation characterized
Mr. Pinchot as "a patron of art and education,
who unites American birth, training and
patriotism with the spirit of his ancestry
derived from France * * *. Mr. Pinchot has
been deeply enlisted in efforts to promote
friendliness of feeling between the two republics. As a consequence and by reason of
his well-known knowledge in matters of art,
his clear perception of the ills certain to result to our country from the destruction of its
forests led him to practical and efficient efforts
for the development in America of the scientific study of forests. By the university his
name is beloved and honored as that of the
principal founder of the forest school, by
which the training of a competent body of

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