Sara Warburg, banking matriarch, dies at 79
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- The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book
In 1884, age seventy-nine, she died abruptly one morning—of a heart attack by one account, of a stroke while buttoning a shoe by another. The Hamburg papers said they had never seen so many mourners at a funeral.
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