Abraham Lincoln Neiman

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Abraham Lincoln "Al" Neiman (July 4, 1875 – October 21, 1970) was an American businessman who co-founded the Neiman Marcus department store in Dallas, Texas. He was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in a Jewish orphanage in Cleveland. In Dallas, he met Carrie Marcus Neiman. They married in 1905 and, with Carrie’s siblings Herbert and Minnie Marcus, opened Neiman Marcus in 1907. Al worked as the broker and promoter, traveling to bring the best clothing to Dallas. When the store burned in 1913, New York investors helped rebuild it. In the 1920s, his nephew Stanley Marcus joined the business.

In 1928, Al admitted infidelity; he and Carrie divorced and Herbert Marcus bought out Al's share for $250,000 with a non-compete in Dallas. Al then lived in New York and Chicago, working for Henry C. Lytton & Co. He married Dorothy Squire in 1938, and they adopted World War II refugees Diana and Ursula Woolf after learning they could not have children. Dorothy died in 1962, and Al, now penniless, returned to Dallas. His nephew Stanley Marcus visited him at a Masonic home in Arlington, Texas, in October 1970, shortly before Stanley’s own death. Abraham Lincoln Neiman died on October 21, 1970, in Arlington, Texas, at the age of 95.