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Maurice Falk was an American industrialist and philanthropist.
Background
He was born in Old Allegheny, Pennsylvania, a small community near Pittsburgh, the first of seven children, two sons and five daughters. His parents were Charles Falk and Sarah (Sanders) Falk, both German Jews, natives of Erpol, a village near Frankfurt am Main in Hesse. They immigrated to the United States in 1850 shortly after marrying and settled in Old Allegheny, then largely populated by Germans and Scots-Irish. Charles Falk, an expert tailor, opened a clothing store. After a few years at Old Allegheny, the family moved to Irwin Station, a suburb of Pittsburgh.
Education
Maurice attended the public schools of both Irwin and Pittsburgh.
Career
At the age of fourteen he began working for his uncle, a merchant tailor, and eventually became a traveling salesman for him.
On May 19, 1888, he married Laura Klinordlinger, a native of Pittsburgh. They had no children who survived beyond infancy; after the death of an infant son, Laura was invalided for life. Probably as he traveled in the area around Pittsburgh, Falk saw abundant evidence of the opportunities in the burgeoning iron and steel industry.
In any case, evidently without any experience in metal refining, he joined a brother-in-law, Henry Weiskopf, in 1893 in the establishment of the Duquesne Reduction Company for the smelting and refining of copper, brass, and other nonferrous metals.
A few years later, his younger brother, Leon Falk, Sr. , bought out Weiskopf's interest and entered the business. The company prospered, becoming one of the largest enterprises of its kind in the region. Falk then turned to other ventures.
An early philanthropic effort came in 1912, when he and his brother assisted Rabbi J. Leonard Levy in organizing the Pittsburgh Federation of Jewish Philanthropies. During World War I they supported programs for extending assistance to European Jews.
After giving important but piecemeal aid to charitable institutions in the next decade, the brothers made a gift of $500, 000 to the University of Pittsburgh in 1928 for the establishment of an outpatient clinic known as the Falk Medical Clinic.
A year later, after the death of Leon Falk, Sr. , Maurice Falk and Leon Falk, Jr. , who became his closest business associate, gave an additional $400, 000 to the clinic. The same year, Maurice Falk, prompted by suggestions of John G. Bowman, chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, created the Maurice and Laura Falk Foundation and endowed it with $10 million.
Dedicated to his wife, who had died in 1928, the foundation was directed to support programs for "the uplifting and upbuilding of the afflicted, and the encouragement, improvement, and betterment of mankind. "
In its early years it engaged primarily in funding research in economic development. Some of its later recipients were the Carnegie Institute of Technology, to which funds were given for education and research in social problems, and, during the mid-1930's, the Brookings Institution, for a study that advocated the organization of vertical unions for steel workers; in 1943-1944, it supported studies in demobilization and reconstruction, the preparing of a commercial code, and possible changes in the federal tax system.
Owing to his philanthropic endeavors, Falk was often called the "Little Carnegie. " While Falk led a quiet life, conducting his philanthropic work outside public view, he was well known around Pittsburgh; he was director of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropy, the Montefiore Hospital, and the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Associations.
He died in 1946 at Miami Beach, Florida, after a lengthy illness, and was buried in West View Cemetery in Pittsburgh.
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Views
Quotations:
Both he and his brother believed that men of means should share their wealth with their less fortunate neighbors. "I firmly believe, " he once said, "that any great surplus of wealth which may come to a man is properly to be regarded as a trust that should be employed for the welfare of mankind, and I count myself fortunate in being able to translate this principle into practice during my lifetime. "
Membership
He was a member of the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Associations.
Connections
On May 19, 1888, he married Laura Klinordlinger, a native of Pittsburgh. They had no children who survived beyond infancy; after the death of an infant son, Laura was invalided for life.
Falk married his second wife, Selma K. Wertheimer of Pittsburgh, on September 25, 1930.