Newmark, Harris, 1834-1916 Newmark, Maurice Harris, 1859-1929 Newmark, Marco Ross, 1878-1959 Worden, James Perry, 1866- text biography nyu monographic New York The Knickerbocker press 1926 2d ed., rev. and augm. With 172 illustrations. eng

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xxxiii p., 1 l., 732 p. front., plates, facsims., ports. 24 cm. Harris Newmark (1834-1916), son of a modest Prussian Jewish merchant, sailed to America in 1853 to join his older brother in Los Angeles. He made a fortune in real estate, the wholesale grocery business, and hides and wools, becoming a leader in the local Jewish community and the city at large. Sixty years in Southern California (1916) begins with his description of Los Angeles as he found it; judges and lawyers, merchants and shops, churches and other landmarks. In the chapters that follow, Newmark organizes his materials chronologically and outlines his various mercantile partnerships and traces changing patterns of social life in Los Angeles, political factions, railroad construction in southern California, crime and vigilantism, the Chinese Massacre of 1871, and real estate speculations. In a more personal vein, he chronicles Jewish family life and philantropy. No known restrictions on publication. edited by Maurice H. Newmark; Marco R. Newmark ... With the collaboration of Perry Worden. cf. p. viii, xii. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. n-us-ca Ethnic groups California Urbanization California Real estate development California Law Political aspects California Religion and ethics California Business California Los Angeles (Calif.) California, Southern F869.L8 N48 1926 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/calbk.023 26012771 hdl:loc.gdc/calbk.023 DLC 830419 20250608015432.1 7798842 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208)