1850 Lehman Brothers was founded in Montgomery, Alabama.
1870, Lehman Brothers helped to establish the new york Cotton Exchange, which was the first attempt of commodity futures trading.
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Lehman Brothers has a wide range of business, including many world-renowned companies, such as Alcatel, AOL time warner Inc., Dell, Fuji, IBM, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, LG Electronics, Merck, Motorola, NEC, Pepsi-Cola, Philips Morris, Shell Oil, Sumitomo Bank and Wal-Mart.