LEVY, AARON

LEVY, AARON
LEVY, AARON (1771–1852), U.S. army officer and land speculator. Levy, the son of hayman levy , was born in New York City. He was commissioned a paymaster of infantry in 1800 and served as a captain of artillery in 1812. He was appointed a lieutenant colonel of artillery in 1816 and resigned from the army in 1819. Levy, after having been licensed as an auctioneer in 1807, went into partnership with his father-inlaw Isaac Moses. Levy was active in real estate transactions in the Lake George area of New York State. He served as president of Congregation Shearith Israel, New York, in 1803 and 1804. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Rosenbloom, Biogr Dict; AJHSP, 27 (1920), 335–44. (Leo Hershkowitz) LÉVY (Levy-Alvares), ABRAHAM EUGÈNE LÉVY (Levy-Alvares), ABRAHAM EUGÈNE (1826–1899), French army officer. Lévy joined the French army in 1845 and was distinguished for his bravery during the Crimean War of 1854–56. He was promoted to brigadier general in 1880, one of the first Jews so appointed. Lévy refused to convert to Christianity to further his career.

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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