Early Jewish Families from San Francisco, California

This project seeks to collect all of the early Jewish families from San Francisco, California.

1. Louise Ackerman (Sloss) (1888-1982)
2. Choynski Family
3. Jacob William “J.W.” (Youphes) Davis (1834-1908)
4. Josephine "Josie" Marcus Earp (1861-1944)
5. Milton Herman Esberg (1875-1939)
6. Herbert Fleishhacker (1872-1957)
7. Rachel "Ray" Frank (1861-1948)
8. Emil Greenebaum (1859-1949)
9. Bertha Haas (Greenbaum (1861-1927
10. Walter Abraham Haas (1889-1979)
11. August Helbing (1824–1896)
12. Isaias Hellman (1842–1920)
13. Louis Honigsberger (1816-1900) and Family
14. Adele Rosa Jaffa (Solomons) (1868-1953)
15. Philo Jacoby (1837–1922)
16. Kahn Family
17. Daniel Edward Koshland (1892-1979)
18. Edith Koshland (Guggenheim) (1887-1977)
19. Marcus Simon Koshland (1858-1930)
20. Arthur Gerstle Lilienthal (1887-1965
21. Prag Family
22. Louis Tilden Samuels (1876-1965)
23. Erna Solís-Cohen (Sultán) (1894-1981)
24. Bertha Sloss (Greenwald) (1868-1948)
25. Helen B. Solomons (Frank) (1873-1944)
26. Lucius Levy Solomons (1863-1940)
27. Leon Mendes Solomons (1873-1900)
28. Leon Sloss, Jr. (1898-1947)
29. Louis Sloss (1893-1952)
30. Margaret Helen Sloss (Koshland) (1897-1952)
31. Selina Seixas Solomons (1862-1942)
32. Sigmund Stern (1858-1928)
33. Levi Strauss (1829–1902)
34. Adolph Sutro (1830–1898)
35. Jacob Voorsanger (1852-1908)
36. Samuel Isaac Wormser (1858-1947)

See also:

American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco

Jewish history of San Rafael’s Gerstle Park comes to life "..They gathered for a tree planting during an Aug. 10 family reunion. This was no casual affair. More than 200 people, with last names like Lilienthal, Fleischhacker, Levison, Mack and Gerstle, had come together at San Rafael’s Gerstle Park, named for the family patriarch..."