Edgar Marks Lazarus, Jr. Values Codes I – H – E – L – P Edgar Marks Lazarus, Jr. was born in 1868 in Baltimore, Maryland. His parents, Edgar Lazarus, Sr. and Minnie Mordecai Lazarus, were members of the Sephardic Jewish community in Charleston, South Carolina.
Read more →Joseph Simon Values Codes I – H – E Joseph Simon was born in 1851 in Bechtheim, Hesse, Germany. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. David Simon, who emigrated to America and settled in Portland Oregon in 1852, when Joseph was one year old. Joseph Simon
Read more →Solomon Hirsch Values Codes I – H – E – L – P “Solomon Hirsch was a man of ideals. Man of affairs though he was, he did not permit himself to become the servant of his business, or the slave of his possessions. He remained master of
Read more →Ben Selling Values Codes I – H – E – L – P “Ben Selling was said to have given away more money in proportion to his income than any other citizen of Oregon since the state was founded.” — E. Kombark MacCall, 1979 Ben
Read more →Joseph Shemanski Values Codes I – E – L – P Joseph Shemanski was born in Poland to Markus and Jeanette Szmanski in 1869. Portland, Oregon Joseph Shemanski came to Portland, Oregon, in 1888, at the age of 19. To make a living, he sold
Read more →Henry Heppner Values Codes I – E – L Henry Hoppner was born in Prussia in either 1831 or 1843. Along the way . . . Henry Heppner came to New York in the mid-1850’s. In the mid-1860’s, he traveled around the Horn to San
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