Joseph Brandenstein Values Codes I – H – E – L – P Joseph Brandenstein was born in Hume, Germany, in 1826. Brandenstein arrived in California in 1850, and worked with Joseph P. Newmark in dry goods in Placerville (then called Hangtown) in the Gold Country.
Read more →Benjamin Daniel Hyam Values Codes I – H – E – P Benjamin D. Hyam was born in London in 1813. Along the way Benjamin Hyam served in the United States Army in both the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and in the Civil War. San
Read more →Rabbi Elkan Cohn Values Codes I – H – E – L – P Elkan Cohn was born in Kostin, a province of Posen, Poland, then controlled by Prussia. He arrived in Albany, New York, in 1854 to serve as a rabbi. In 1855, he took
Read more →Isaias W. Hellman Values Codes I – H – E – L – P The life of Isaias Hellman was of the romantic, not because of its weakly sentimentalizing, but because of the mastery which he displayed in working out a great career from humble beginnings,
Read more →Adolph Sutro Values Codes I – H – E – L – P Adolph Sutro was born in 1830 in the German city of Aachen. San Francisco & Its Surroundings Adolph Sutro came to California in 1850, at the age of 20. He went into
Read more →Abram Anspacher Values Codes I – E – L – P Abraham Anspacher was born in 1818 in the Bavarian town of Weimar, Schmiedau. He came to America in 1839, avoiding the draft, and settled first in Cincinnati, Ohio, then Louisville, Kentucky, and then Evansville, Indiana, where
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