California Gold Country

Harris Weinstock: Far-Sighted Business Entrepreneur; Elected Sacramento County Freeholder; Charter Member of the California Progressive Party

Harris Weinstock Values Codes I – E   Harris Weinstock (1854-1922) was born in London in 1854, came to New York City with his family, and migrated to California at fifteen after his father died. Weinstock opened a small shop in San Francisco with his half-brother David

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Installation Service of Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin, Temple Israel of Stockton, 1914

Installation Service of Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin, Temple Israel of Stockton, 1914   Ryhim Ahoovim of Stockton, California (est.1851), later known as Temple Israel, struggled to retain rabbis during its early years. Even after erecting a new building on Hunter Street in 1904 and joining the Reform movement’s Union

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Louis Herman Heller: Jewish Photographer of the Modoc Indian War, 1872-1873

Louis Herman Heller Values Codes I – E – L   Louis Herman Heller was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany in 1839 – the same year that British scientist Sir John Herschel coined the term “photography” (lit. “drawing with light”).   Along the way . . . Louis Heller

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Jacob Stern: Pioneer Jewish Merchant of Rio Vista in the Sacramento Delta

Jacob Stern Values Codes I – E – L – P   Jacob Stern was born in Bavaria in 1856.   Along the way . . . In 1874, Jacob Stern journeyed to San Francisco, California. Soon thereafter, he moved to Nevada, where he worked briefly as

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Jacob & Joseph Weissbein: Jewish Pioneer Merchants, Bankers & Mine Owners of Grass Valley in the California Gold Country

Jacob & Joseph Weissbein Values Codes I – E – L   Jacob Weissbein was born in Germany in the early 1850’s. His brother, Joseph Weissbein, was born around 1854 in Germany.   Grass Valley In 1873, Jacob and Joseph Weissbein came to America and settled in

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Emanuel Lauer: First Merchant in Alturas, Modoc County, California in the Northern Gold Country

Emanuel Lauer Values Codes I – E – L   Emanuel Lauer was born in 1831 in Bavaria, Germany.   Along the way . . . In 1848, Emanuel Lauer came to the United States. In 1854, he traveled, by way of the Isthmus of Panama, to

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