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