He was born to a Jewish family[1] on February 22, 1884, to Mendel Gottesman and Sarah Fischgrund in Munkacs, in Bereg County, Hungary, (present-day Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine).
Today, through a series of mergers, the bank became amalgamated into JPMorgan Chase & Co. Further, he became the director of the Eastern Corporation and of Rayonier Inc. Gottesman became well known for his generous philanthropy.
[2] The shrine, located adjacent to the Israel Museum in western Jerusalem, was funded by a foundation established by Gottesman's children as a memorial to their father.
His daughter, Celeste Ruth Gottesman (1913–2013), was a wealthy modern-art collector and museum and library benefactor who resided in New York City.
Her first husband was Jerome John Altman, whom she divorced in 1935 and then married American architect and philanthropist Armand Phillip Bartos.