Abraham Haas Value Codes I – E – L – P Abraham Haas was born in Reckendorf, Bavaria, in 1847. Haas traveled to the Western U.S. via the Isthmus of Panama route, and started work in his cousins wholesale food business, Hass Bros., in Portland, Oregon.
Read more →Daniel Levy Values Codes I – H – E – L – P Daniel Levy was born in Lixheim, France, in the Province of Lorraine, in 1826. Along the way Educated at Paris University, Daniel Levy became a schoolteacher and taught for a time in Alsace.
Read more →Joseph Brandenstein Values Codes I – H – E – L – P Joseph Brandenstein was born in Hume, Germany, in 1826. Brandenstein arrived in California in 1850, and worked with Joseph P. Newmark in dry goods in Placerville (then called Hangtown) in the Gold Country.
Read more →Benjamin Daniel Hyam Values Codes I – H – E – P Benjamin D. Hyam was born in London in 1813. Along the way Benjamin Hyam served in the United States Army in both the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and in the Civil War. San
Read more →Rabbi Elkan Cohn Values Codes I – H – E – L – P Elkan Cohn was born in Kostin, a province of Posen, Poland, then controlled by Prussia. He arrived in Albany, New York, in 1854 to serve as a rabbi. In 1855, he took
Read more →Isaias W. Hellman Values Codes I – H – E – L – P The life of Isaias Hellman was of the romantic, not because of its weakly sentimentalizing, but because of the mastery which he displayed in working out a great career from humble beginnings,
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