Edmond Alfred Guggenheim (January 19, 1888 – March 16, 1972) was an American copper industry businessman and philanthropist.
[1] His father was the third son of mining magnate Meyer Guggenheim and his mother was descended from a prominent Alsatian Jewish family.
[3][4] Guggenheim joined the family business in 1916 and headed its mining explorations and was its vice president in charge of South American operations.
[5] He donated the family's Long Island estate, Murry Guggenheim House, to Monmouth University in 1960.
[6] He also donated the land on which the Trudeau Institute in Saranac Lake, New York, is built.