Jacob Schiff
Jacob Schiff was perhaps the most influential Jewish banker in the United States at the end of the 19th century. He was president of Kuhn Loeb and financed railroads such as the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and he took part in the reorganization of the Baltimore &amp; Ohio Railroad in 1896–99, and at various times aided the Westinghouse Electric Company, and the Western Union Telegraph Company.