Sugar House Bulletin | 1941-04-04 | Page 8 | Haym Salomon

Haym Salomon Haym Salomon, who helped finance the American Revolution, was of Jewish and Portuguese ancestry. an-cestry. He came to New York as a young man, opening a broker's and commission merchant's business. His activities as an American patriot pa-triot led to his imprisonment by the British in 1776 and again in 1778. He escaped to Philadelphia where he became a financial broker with Robert Morris, secretary of the treasury. He raised large sums to pay Washington's army, much of the money being his own, and charged no interest; paid the salaries of Monroe and Madison while in the Continental congress; paid the expenses ex-penses of Lafayette's army, also Pulaski Pu-laski and Von Steuben. He never made any demand for the return of the money. He suffered financial reverses after the war and died almost al-most penniless in 1785. t