The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-02-19
DEATH OF ONE OF EHE ROTHS-
CAHA1DS.
Remarkable History of the Fami-
Iy---HSarOn Mayor Amchel de
ESOthchfId.

| From the n. Y. Herald.
A cable telegram from London, under
date of yesterday, the 9th inst, reports
as follows: "Baron Mayer Amchel dc
Rothschild, member of the banking firm
of Rothschild & Co., died to-day"
SKETCH OF BARON NJ. A. DE RoTHsCHILD.
Mayer Amchel de Rothschild was the
| fourth son of the late Baron Nathan
Mayer de Rothschild, by his wife Hannah,
the third daughter of Levi Barnet Cohen,
L Jndon merchant. Baron M. A. de
! Rothschild was born in 1878 and educated
at Trinity College, Cambridge. In politics
| hewas an ndependentliberal and in favor
Of the ballot He was electeda member OF
| Parliament for Hythe in 1859, and was one
of the firm of N NJ Rothschild & Co.
The death of the representative of the
great London banking house cannot fail
to call to mind the remarkable and inter
esting history of the Rothschilds-a name
which in the financial world is more DO
tent than that of the most influential and
powerful monarch on the face of the earth.
Their name is spoken everywhere; their
wealth is proverbial; their prosperity has
run into smile. Their commercial con-
nections embrace the globe. Still GEN.
fury ago the name of the Rethschild had
not been heard on the Exchanges of Eu-
rope. Springing up from obscurity, al
most poverty, the great ancestor of the
house arrived at position which made
him the guest and friend of kings and en-
perors, the help of governments and the
benefactor of peoples. Raising himself,
not by any of those fortuitous circumstan-
ces or lucky accidents, which not unfre-
lquently occur ina lifetime, he steadily
reached, almost unexampled in the histo-
nv of the void. Nathan Mayer de
Rothschild, father of the subject of this
brief sketch, was said to surpass all his
brothers in commercial genius. He COM
menced has career in Manchester, Eng
land, as money lender, with less than
$500, the cotton interest being then in its
he had 81 900, 900, and with this sum he
went to London, where he speedily won
his place in the worlds capitol. When
James Rothschild, chief of the Paris
branch married his own niece, Nathan
conceived the idea of perpetuating the
name and power of the house by such con-
sanguineous connections. common from
the earliest time with Hebrew families.
With this view be called, in 1886, con-
grees of the members of the household at
Frankfort to consider the question. They
all favored it, and as an Introduction to
the eonnuoial policy, Nathan's eldest son
Lionel was united to his consin Charlotte,
the eldest daughter of Charles Rothschild.
Nathan was ove1oyed at the adoption of
bis matrimuni Il system; but on the day Of
the nuptials he took i'll, and died in less
than six weeks, in the ifIy-ninth year of
his age. He was said to have left be-
tween SO, zoo, 900 and $50, 900, 900.
Lionel de Rothschild, now sixty-fve years
of age, has been since his fathers decease
ct the head of the London house. Baron
Mayer A. Rothschild. whose death we an
nounce in. the Herald to-day, was the
fourth son of Nathan, and in the ffty-sixth
year of bis age