William Rosenwald

William Rosenwald
Born	(1903-08-19)August 19, 1903 Wilmette, Illinois
Died	October 31, 1996(1996-10-31) (aged 93) New York, N,Y.
Education	MIT, (BS)
Occupation(s)	Businessman and philanthropist
Spouse	Mary Kurtz Rosenwald ​ ​ (m. 1938; died 1985)​
Parent(s)	Julius Rosenwald Augusta Nusbaum
Relatives	Edgar B. Stern Jr.(nephew) Philip M. Stern(nephew) Audrey Stern Hess(niece)

William Rosenwald (August 19, 1903 – October 31, 1996) was an American businessman and philanthropist. His American Securities Corporation invested in other business including AMETEK and Western Union International. He helped establish the nationwide United Jewish Appeal in 1939 and made other charitable grants through the William Rosenwald Family Fund. His father was Julius Rosenwald, the former chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Company and a leading philanthropist whose Rosenwald Fund built 5,000 schools for black children in the South a few decades after the Civil War.