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Simon Koshland

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

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

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

Some of Koshland's descendants include:

  • Simon Koshland (1825–1896) m. Rosina Frauenthal (1829–1911)
  • Isidore Koshland (1852–1870)
  • Joseph Koshland (1855–1940)
  • Marcus Simon Koshland (1858–1925) m. Corrine M. Schweitzer (1867–1953)
  • Daniel E. Koshland Sr. (1892–1979) m. Eleanor Haas (1900–1959)
  • Daniel E. Koshland Jr. (1920–2007) m. Marian Elliott (1921–1997)
  • Ellen Koshland
  • Phyllis "Phylp" Koshland
  • James Koshland
  • Gail Koshland
  • Douglas Koshland (1953–) m. Mary Porter
  • Frances "Sissy" Koshland (1921–2019) m. Theodore H. Geballe (1920–2021)
  • Gordon Theodore Geballe
  • Alison Frances Geballe
  • Adam Phillip Geballe (1951–)
  • Monica Ruth Geballe
  • Jennifer Corinne Geballe
  • Ernest Henry Geballe
  • Phyllis Koshland Friedman (1923–2019) m. Howard A. Friedman (1919–1988)
  • Henrietta "Nettie" Koshland Sinsheimer (1860–1926)
  • Caroline "Carrie" Koshland Greenebaum (1863–1946)
  • Frances “Fannie” Koshland (1865–1949) m. Abraham Haas (1847–1921)
  • Charles Haas (c.1888–)
  • Walter A. Haas Sr. (1889–1979) m. Elise Stern (1893–1990)
  • Walter A. Haas Jr. (1916–1995) m. Evelyn Danzig (1917–2010)
  • Robert D. Haas (1942–)
  • Betsy Haas Eisenhardt m. Roy Eisenhardt (1939–)
  • Walter J. Haas
  • Peter E. Haas (1918–2005) m. Josephine Baum (1914–2014)
  • Peter E. Haas Jr. (1947–) m. Joanne Christensen; m. Ginnie Haas
  • Jennifer C. Haas
  • Daniel Haas
  • Bradley Haas
  • Margaret E. Haas Jones
  • Michael Stern Haas (1953–2003)
  • Rhoda Haas Goldman (1924–1996) m. Richard Goldman (1920–2010)
  • John D. Goldman (1949–) m. Marcia Koshland
  • Aaron Goldman (1980–)
  • Jessica Goldman Foung (1983–) m. Alejandro Foung
  • Douglas E. Goldman (1952–) m. Lisa Goldman
  • Jennifer Goldman
  • Jason Goldman
  • Matthew Goldman
  • Susan R. Gelman m. Michael Gelman
  • Richard W. Goldman (1947–1989) m. Susan Sachs
  • Daniel Sachs Goldman (1976–)
  • William "Bill" Sachs Goldman (1979–2017)
  • Ruth Haas Lilienthal (1891–1975) m. Philip Nettre Lilienthal Jr. (1889–1961)
  • Eleanor Haas Koshland (1900–1959) m. Daniel E. Koshland Sr. (1892–1979)
  • Montefiore T. Koshland (1867–1889)
  • Abraham Koshland (1869–1944) m. Estelle Wangenheim (1878–1960)
  • Jesse Koshland (1871–1966) m. Edith R. Guggenhime (1887–1977)

References

  1. Fred Rosenbaum. Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area Univ of California Press, 2011-06-28^
  2. 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^