Kingdom of Bavaria-born American businessman and wool merchant
Simon Koshland (1825–1896) was a Bavarian-born American businessman, and wool merchant.[1] He is the patriarch of the Koshland and Haas family of San Francisco.[2][3]
Biography
Simon Koshland was born in Ichenhausen, Kingdom of Bavaria in 1825.[2] In 1850, he immigrated to Sacramento via Panama with his older brother where they opened a general merchandise store.[2] In 1862, he moved to San Francisco after his store was burned down in a flood where he and his brother opened a wool house named Koshland Brothers.[2] The company eventually morphed into Koshland & Sons and became the leading wool house in America.[2]
Koshland retired in the 1890s; his sons and sons-in-law continued the family business.[2]
Personal life
Koshland married Rosina Franenthal of Philadelphia; they had 8 children: Isidore, Joseph, Marcus, Henrietta, Caroline, Frances, Montefiore, Abraham, and Jesse. His daughter Frances married Abraham Haas, and his son Marcus had a son, Daniel E. Koshland Sr., who married Eleanor Haas, the daughter of Abraham Haas.
He was a member of Ohabai Shalome Congregation; and later Temple Emanu-El.[2] He died in 1896,[2] and is buried at Home of Peace Cemetery in Colma, California.
Descendants
Some of Koshland's descendants include:
- Simon Koshland (1825–1896) m. Rosina Frauenthal (1829–1911)
- Isidore Koshland (1852–1870)
- Joseph Koshland (1855–1940)
- Marcus Simon Koshland (1858–1925) m. Corrine M. Schweitzer (1867–1953)
- Henrietta "Nettie" Koshland Sinsheimer (1860–1926)
- Caroline "Carrie" Koshland Greenebaum (1863–1946)
- Frances “Fannie” Koshland (1865–1949) m. Abraham Haas (1847–1921)
- Charles Haas (c.1888–)
- Walter A. Haas Sr. (1889–1979) m. Elise Stern (1893–1990)
- Ruth Haas Lilienthal (1891–1975) m. Philip Nettre Lilienthal Jr. (1889–1961)
- Eleanor Haas Koshland (1900–1959) m. Daniel E. Koshland Sr. (1892–1979)
- Montefiore T. Koshland (1867–1889)
- Abraham Koshland (1869–1944) m. Estelle Wangenheim (1878–1960)
- Jesse Koshland (1871–1966) m. Edith R. Guggenhime (1887–1977)
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