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Simon Koshland

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Simon Koshland
Born1825
Died1896 (aged 71)
Resting placeHome of Peace Cemetery (Colma, California)
NationalityAmerican
Occupationbusinessman
Known forco-founder of Koshland Brothers
SpouseRosina Franenthal
Children9
Family Daniel E. Koshland Sr. (grandson)
Daniel E. Koshland Jr. (great-grandson)
Douglas Koshland (great-great grandson)
John D. Goldman (great-great grandson)
Douglas E. Goldman (great-great grandson)
Abraham Haas (son-in-law)

Simon Koshland (1825–1896) was a Bavarian-born American businessman, and wool merchant.[1] He is the patriarch of the Koshland and Haas family of San Francisco.[2][3]

Biography

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Simon Koshland was born in Ichenhausen, Kingdom of Bavaria in 1825.[2] In 1850, he immigrated to Sacramento via Panama with his older brother where they opened a general merchandise store.[2] In 1862, he moved to San Francisco after his store was burned down in a flood where he and his brother opened a wool house named Koshland Brothers.[2] The company eventually morphed into Koshland & Sons and became the leading wool house in America.[2]

Koshland retired in the 1890s; his sons and sons-in-law continued the family business.[2]

Personal life

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Koshland married Rosina Franenthal of Philadelphia; they had 8 children: Isidore, Joseph, Marcus, Henrietta, Caroline, Frances, Montefiore, Abraham, and Jesse. His daughter Frances married Abraham Haas, and his son Marcus had a son, Daniel E. Koshland Sr., who married Eleanor Haas, the daughter of Abraham Haas.

He was a member of Ohabai Shalome Congregation; and later Temple Emanu-El.[2] He died in 1896,[2] and is buried at Home of Peace Cemetery in Colma, California.

Descendants

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Some of Koshland's descendants include:

References

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  1. ^ Rosenbaum, Fred (2011-06-28). Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area. Univ of California Press. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-520-27130-2.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Simon Koshland, Pioneer Jewish Wool Merchant of San Francisco". Jewish Museum of the American West. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
  3. ^ The Jews of San Francisco, by Martin A. Meyer, Ph.D., Emanu-El, San Francisco, June 1916