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Simon Koshland (1825–1896) was a Bavarian-born American businessman, and wool merchant. He is the patriarch of the Koshland and Haas family of San Francisco.

Biography

Simon Koshland was born in Ichenhausen, Kingdom of Bavaria in 1825. In 1850, he immigrated to Sacramento via Panama with his older brother where they opened a general merchandise store. 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. The company eventually morphed into Koshland & Sons and became the leading wool house in America.

Koshland retired in the 1890s; his sons and sons-in-law continued the family business.

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. He died in 1896, 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)
    • Daniel E. Koshland Sr. (1892–1979) m. Eleanor Haas (1900–1959)
      • Daniel E. Koshland Jr. (1920–2007) m. Marian Elliott (1921–1997)
        • Ellen Koshland
        • Phyllis "Phylp" Koshland
        • James Koshland
        • Gail Koshland
        • Douglas Koshland (1953–) m. Mary Porter
      • Frances "Sissy" Koshland (1921–2019) m. Theodore H. Geballe (1920–2021)
        • Gordon Theodore Geballe
        • Alison Frances Geballe
        • Adam Phillip Geballe (1951–)
        • Monica Ruth Geballe
        • Jennifer Corinne Geballe
        • Ernest Henry Geballe
      • Phyllis Koshland Friedman (1923–2019) m. Howard A. Friedman (1919–1988)
  • 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)
      • Walter A. Haas Jr. (1916–1995) m. Evelyn Danzig (1917–2010)
        • Robert D. Haas (1942–)
        • Betsy Haas Eisenhardt m. Roy Eisenhardt (1939–)
        • Walter J. Haas
      • Peter E. Haas (1918–2005) m. Josephine Baum (1914–2014)
        • Peter E. Haas Jr. (1947–) m. Joanne Christensen; m. Ginnie Haas
          • Jennifer C. Haas
          • Daniel Haas
          • Bradley Haas
        • Margaret E. Haas Jones
        • Michael Stern Haas (1953–2003)
      • Rhoda Haas Goldman (1924–1996) m. Richard Goldman (1920–2010)
        • John D. Goldman (1949–) m. Marcia Koshland
          • Aaron Goldman (1980–)
          • Jessica Goldman Foung (1983–) m. Alejandro Foung
        • Douglas E. Goldman (1952–) m. Lisa Goldman
          • Jennifer Goldman
          • Jason Goldman
          • Matthew Goldman
        • Susan R. Gelman m. Michael Gelman
        • Richard W. Goldman (1947–1989) m. Susan Sachs
          • Daniel Sachs Goldman (1976–)
          • William "Bill" Sachs Goldman (1979–2017)
    • 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)

References

1. Rosenbaum, Fred (2011-06-28). Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area. Univ of California Press. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-520-27130-2.
2. ^ "Simon Koshland, Pioneer Jewish Wool Merchant of San Francisco". Jewish Museum of the American West. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
3. The Jews of San Francisco, by Martin A. Meyer, Ph.D., Emanu-El, San Francisco, June 1916

• 1825 births
• American company founders
• People from Günzburg (district)
• 1896 deaths
• Bavarian emigrants to the United States
• Businesspeople from California
• Koshland family
• 19th-century American businesspeople
• Burials at Home of Peace Cemetery (Colma, California)