Jacob Elias Values Codes I – E – L – P Jacob Elias arrived in Los Angeles with his two brothers, Raphael and Israel, in 1851 or 1852. They opened a dry goods store, naming it Elias Bros. Elias Bros. was located in the Temple Block and is
Read more →Solomon Lazard Values Codes I – H – E – L – P Solomon Lazard was born in 1826 in Fromberg, Alsace-Lorraine, France. He was a cousin to the owners of Lazard Frères, then a leading import-export house and today a French banking giant. Along the
Read more →Samuel K. Labatt Values Codes I – E – L – P Samuel K. Labatt was born in North Carolina in 1830. As a young man he traveled to New Orleans where he was an officer in the city’s Hebrew Benevolent Society. He arrived in Los Angeles
Read more →Harris Newmark Values Codes I – E – L – P “Not many names of Los Angeles merchants or financiers are better known nor more honorably associated with the history of that city’s commercial development than that of Harris Newmark.” — Rabbi Martin Meyer, 1916 Harris
Read more →Morris L. Goodman Values Codes I – E – L – P “Morris L. Goodman exhibited many of the characteristics of the Jewish immigrants who came to the American West in the 19th Century. He quickly learned the language, acquired merchandising skills and became a naturalized citizen. He
Read more →Solomon Nunes Carvalho Values Code I – H – E – L – P Solomon Nunes Carvalho was born in 1815 to a Jewish family of Spanish-Portuguese descent in Charleston, South Carolina. He was trained as an artist and later took up the new medium of
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