Colonel H. A. Guinsburg Honored on 75th Birthday

In tribute to a half century of service in philanthropic and communal causes in New York and other cities by Colonel H. A. Guinzburg, treasurer of the Federation for Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies and associate treasurer of the United Jewish Campaign of New York, a set of felicitating resolutions was presented to him at headquarters of the United Jewish Campaign of New York, on Sunday.

The resolutions were signed by a large number of Colonel Guinzburg’s friends and co-workers in war relief and Federation work and his associates in the present effort for New York City’s $6,000,000 quota toward the United Jewish Campaign.

Among those who signed the resolutions were Louis Marshall and Felix M. Warburg, David A. Brown, Jonah J. Goldstein, Paul Baerwald, Frederick Brown, Colonel Herbert H. Lehman, Jacob Billikoff, Samuel C. Lamport and Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, who made the presentation speech.

The occasion marked Colonel Guinzburg’s seventieth birthday, in honor of which he was also presented with a gold medal on behalf of the Plan and Scope Committee of the United Building Fund of Federation, of which he is a former chairman, in appreciation of his effort to put through a plan for a central office establishment housing all Federation institutions. The medal was formally tendered by Judge William N. Cohn.

Colonel Guinsburg came to New York twenty-five years ago from St. Louis, where he made a conspicuous record in the work of the United Hebrew Charities. He was also president of the local Russian Aid Society and of the Hebrew Free Burial Society, and Harmonie Club. He was made an honorary member of the Knights of St. Patrick, and was a close friend of William Joel Stone, then governor of Missouri, under whom he served as chief of staff and aide-de-camp. He was appointed brigadier-general of Colorado by Governor McIntire of that state.

Among Col. Guinzburg’s outstanding public activities in New York City have been his co-chairmanship with the late Jacob H. Schiff in the Jewish War Relief Campaign in 1918 and his vice chairmanship of the “Seven-in-One” drive at the end of the war through which $35,000,000 was raised in Greater New York. He served also in the Jewish War Sufferers’ Campaigns of 1920 and 1922. He is also actively interested in the work of the Girl Scout organization and the Red Cross.

Colonel Guinzburg retired from business life early in the present year to devote his time exclusively to his charitable and communal offices. His friends estimate that in his quarter-century of service in New York he has been instrumental in the raising of $50,000,000 for charitable purposes in America and abroad. In the nine years in which he has been treasurer of the Federation, he has administered funds totalling over $30,000,000.