Mathilda Calnan

Mathilda Loeser Calnan was the daughter of German Jewish parents Charles Alexander Loeser (died 1928) and Olga Loeser (née Kaufmann-Lebert) and heiress to a fortune derived from the Frederick Loeser Co. Department Store of Brooklyn, New York (founded by her paternal grandfather). Her father, a Harvard graduate, was an art collector of ...