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Co-owner of Macy's department store and a casualty of the Titanic disaster (1845–1912). Straus' wife, Ida, refused to board a lifeboat, returning to her husband, saying 'I will not be separated from my husband. As we have lived, so we will die together.' When both were offered the safety of a lifeboat, he firmly replied, 'I will not go before the other men.' Large group of "Class S Stock" certificates of the Abrast Realty Company, bound together in a 22 x 16.75 volume, with the first eighteen made out to various figures in the Abraham & Straus family business orbit, dated from January 21, 1911, to October 16, 1925; the remainder of the bound certificates are blank. The receipts for certificates #3 and #4 are signed in purple ink by Isidor Straus; both carry endorsements on the reverse documenting the transfer of the shares in August 1912, four months after the Titanic disaster. Other signers throughout include Nathan Straus (Isidor’s brother and co-owner of Macy's and Abraham & Straus), Nathan Straus, Jr. (Isidor’s nephew, who served as a New York State Senator and later as a member of the United States Congress), Abraham Abraham (founder of Abraham & Straus), Simon F. Rothschild (a prominent merchant who served as the first president of Abraham & Straus), Lillian A. Rothschild (Simon's wife), and Jesse I. Straus (Isidor’s eldest son, who later served as the U.S. Ambassador to France). In overall fine condition.
