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About Simon Koshland

Attention: the marriage date [2/4/1828] was deleted in the profile - as it must be wrong -in relation to his birth date [1825]!! [MDB]

Simon Koshland, Pioneer Jewish Wool Merchant of San Francisco http://www.jmaw.org/koshland-wool-san-francisco/


  • Residence: 1870 - California, United States
  • Residence: 1880 - San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States

Simon Koshland was an American businessman, wool merchant, and patriarch of the Koshland family.

Simon Koshland was born to a German Jewish family in Ichenhausen, Bavaria in 1825. In 1850, he immigrated to Sacramento via Panama with his older brother where they opened a general merchandise store. 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. The company eventually morphed into Koshland & Sons and became the leading wool house in America. Koshland retired in the 1890s; his sons and sons-in-law continued the family business.

Koshland was married Rosina Franenthal of Philadelphia; they had 8 children: Isidore Koshland; Joseph Koshland (1854-1940); Marcus Simon Koshland (1858-1930); Henrietta Koshland Sinsheimer (born 1860); Caroline Koshland Greenebaum (1863-1946); Frances Koshland Haas (1865-1949); Montefiore T. Koshland (born 1868); Abraham Koshland (1869-1944); and Jesse Koshland (1871-1966). He was a member of Ohabai Shalome Congregation; and later Temple Emanu-El. He died in 1896. His daughter Frances married Abraham Haas and his son Marcus married Eleanor Haas, the daughter of Abraham Haas.


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Simon Koshland's Timeline

1825
July 4, 1825
Ichenhausen, Swabia, Bavaria, Germany
1852
1852
Pennsylvania, United States
1855
May 28, 1855
Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, United States
1858
January 13, 1858
San Francisco, CA, United States
1860
March 1860
San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
1863
September 4, 1863
San Francisco, CA, United States
1865
September 12, 1865
San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA, United States
1867
November 14, 1867
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States
1869
March 22, 1869
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States
1870
December 11, 1870
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States