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David Belasco: America’s Gold Rush-Bred Impresario

David Belasco Values Codes H – E – L   David Belasco was born in San Francisco in 1853. His parents, Abraham Humphry and Reyna Martin Belasco, were natives of London with roots in Portugal. They had sailed for California, via Panama, and settled in San Francisco

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Samuel Wolf Levy: Major Jewish Pioneer and Special Friend of the Children of San Francisco

Samuel W. Levy Values Codes I – E – L – P   Samuel W. Levy was born in the town of Haegen, Alsace, France in 1830. He was educated in college at Phalsbourg. In 1848, Samuel Levy came to America, at the age of 18, and peddled sponges in

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Julius Eckman: Rabbi and Jewish Newspaper Owner of Early San Francisco

Rabbi Julius Eckman Values Codes  I-H-E-L   Julius Eckman was born in Rawicz in the Polish province of Posen in 1805. Eckman received his education in Germany, then came to America in 1849. He had been a merchant in London for three years prior to coming to the

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Rabbi Aron J. Messing: Too Orthodox for Congregation Sherith Israel, San Francisco

Rabbi Aron J. Messing Values Codes  I – H – E – L   Aron Messing was born in the Polish town of Argenau, in the province of Posen, in 1840. He came to the United States in 1866 and served Orthodox congregations in New York and

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Moses A. Gunst: United Cigar Stores, San Francisco

Moses A. Gunst Values Codes  I – E – P   One of the most beloved men in the history of San Francisco, Moses A. Gunst, was born in New York in 1853.   San Francisco Moses Gunst moved to California in 1871. He went to work

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Philo Jacoby: Pionee, Newspaperman, Sharpshooter & Strongman of San Francisco

Philo Jacoby Values Codes  I – H – E – P Philo Jacoby was born in 1837 at Lauenberg, a province of Pomerania, which is now Lebork, Poland.   San Francisco Third Mate Philo Jacoby arrived in San Francisco in 1859 on the clipper ship Whirlwind. Jacoby established one of

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