Inland Empire Exhibition Hall
Harris Department Store, San Bernardino, WSJH postcard collection
California’s Inland Empire consists of the vast lands of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties.
Jewish Pioneers started settling the Inland Empire in the early 1850’s.
San Bernardino County was split from Los Angeles County in 1853.
It covers over 20,000 square miles and is the largest county in the U.S.A.
The town of San Bernardino was originally laid out and settled by Mormons from Salt Lake City.
Jewish merchants from Los Angeles did wholesale business with San Bernardino and Salt Lake City, especially during the winter months, when the snows made trade with the East impossible.
Riverside County was spilt from San Bernardino County in 1893.
It covers 7,200 square miles.
Inland Empire Jewish Pioneers
Henrietta Ancker: Charitable “Women of Valor” of San Bernardino
Ralph (Rudolph) Anker: Pioneer Merchant of San Bernardino
Siegmund Bergel: Educator and “Grand Organizer” of San Bernardino
Isaac Brunn: Pioneer Food & Liquor Wholesaler and Civic Servant of San Bernardino
Ralph Greenhood: Revived the San Bernardino Jewish Community
The Remarkable Harris Family: Inland Empire and Los Angeles
Lewis Jacobs & Lewis Meyerstein: The Jewish Pioneer Bank of San Bernardino
Marcus Katz: Leading Jewish Pioneer of San Bernardino
The Kinderman Family: San Bernardino Jewish Pioneers
George Adolph Reich: Pioneer Pharmacist of San Bernardino
Early Pioneer Jews of Riverside, California
Inland Empire Jewish Organizations
The Founding of San Bernardino’s Paradise Lodge #237, B’nai B’rith, 1875
Rabbi Messing and the Hebrew Association of San Bernardino
Congregation Emanu El of San Bernardino/Redlands
Places of Interest
