San Francisco Jewish Pioneers

Henry J. Labatt: Influential Early Pioneer Jewish Attorney of San Francisco

Henry J. Labatt Values Codes I – H – E – L   The Labatt family was a prominent Sephardic Jewish presence in pioneer San Francisco. Abraham Cohen Labatt, who had been born in Charleston, South Carolina, became the first president of Congregation Emanu-El when it was

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Emanuel M. Berg: Maker of a Historical Mistake on San Francisco Synagogues’ Beginnings – 1853

  Emanuel Marum Berg Values Codes I – E – L  P   Emanuel Marum Berg was born in Bamberg, Germany, in 1817. Berg married Karoline Uhlfelder in 1849. Shortly afterwards, they left for America, landing in 1850.   San Francisco  That same year, they arrived in San Francisco

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Amelia Dannenberg: Pioneer Woman Clothing Manufacturer & Entrepreneur of San Francisco

  Amelia Dannenberg Values Codes I – E – L   Amelia Dannenberg was born in Geislingen, in the Rhineland region of Germany, in 1829.   San Francisco In the 19th-century American West, few women were employed in business or industry. Other than school teaching, gainful employment

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Hannah Marks Solomons: Jewish Pioneer Woman and Her Distinguished Family

Hannah Marks Solomons Values Codes  I – E – L – P   Hannah Marks was born in Connecticut in 1835, soon after her parents arrived from Europe. Following the death of her Polish-born parents in 1850, she was raised in the Philadelphia home of an uncle.   San

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Elizabeth Fleischman-Aschheim: Heroic Jewish Radiologist of San Francisco

Elizabeth Fleischman-Aschheim‎ Value Codes I – E – L – P   Elizabeth Fleischman-Aschheim was born in 1859 in El Dorado County in the Gold County of California. Though virtually unknown in the annals of American Jewish history, she was recognized as a martyr to the new science of radiology.   San

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Dr. Max Sichel: Early Pioneer Jewish Dentist of San Francisco

Dr. Max Sichel Values Codes I – E – L   There were not many Jewish professional men in the Early West. Most adult Jews in the decades following the Gold Rush were European immigrants, and it was very difficult for European Jews to get a professional

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