Mrs. Arthur Lehman, for many years honorary chairman of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, and a founder and leader of the Federation’s Women’s Division, died here yesterday. She was 83.
Mrs. Lehman’s husband, Arthur, was a brother of the late Gov. Herbert H. Lehman and of the late Irving Lehman, judge on the New York State Court of Appeals.
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