Max Getz

Max Getz was born in 1896 the son of Anna (née Richter) and Herman Getzug.^[4] His given name was Mayor, which he used for his jewelry business, replacing it with Max for his personal life.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]}

Getz attended Woodward High School, Cincinnati.  He was a veteran of World War I.^[3]

Upon returning from the Army, Getz began his business career with two employees, a clerk and a porter in an old arcade in Cincinnati. He opened Mayor Jewelry Company, his first jewelry store, at 608 Vine Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. He expanded and headed the Mayor Company at various downtown sites, and opened store in Dayton and Hamilton, Ohio and Indianapolis.^[9][1][12]

Getz was the president of Udall and Ballou on Fifth Avenue, New York City, as well as president and treasurer of the Mayor Jewelry Company.^[10] The Udall and Ballou store at 685 Fifth Avenue was the first jewelry concern to move north of 42nd Street.^[13]

Max Getz was a member of the Algam Corporation harness group who purchased the Yonkers Raceway property for $2.4 Million and developed the racetrack. Nathan E. Herzfeld, Joseph Henschel and Max Getz were the leaders in the formation of Algam. Getz and Henschel sold their interests to Old Country Trotting Association who assumed control of the racetrack, after which Herzfeld sold his interest in 1952.^[14]

Getz was the director of a Cleveland orphanage, a member of the board of governors of Hebrew Union College and prominent in Jewish Welfare Fund drives.^[10][15]