Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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HARRIS NEWMARK, 
 
dealer in hides and wool at Los Angeles, is a native of Prussia, and was born at 
Leoban in 1834. His father, Philip Newmark, was a manufacturer of boot blacking. 
Harris Newmark was reared and educated until he was fourteen years of age in his 
native city, when he went with his father to Denmark and Sweden, and remained 
with him in manufacturing boot blacking at Copenhagen and Gottenburg until he 
was nineteen. At that age he came to America and located at Los Angeles, whence 
his brother, Joseph P., had preceded him two years, in 1851, and for whom he 
clerked in the mercantile business eight months. He then engaged in the same 
business for himself; and afterward became a member of the firm of Newmark, 
Kremer & Co., at Los Angeles, doing a wholesale and retail business until 1861. 
He then retired from the firm and engaged in the commission business until 1865 
when he founded the wholesale grocery house at Los Angeles, known as H. Newmark 
& Co., which existed until 1886. Since that time he has been dealing in wool and 
hides. In 1858 he was married at Los Angeles to Miss Sarah Newmark, by whom he 
has six living children: two married daughters, a son who is married, H., of the 
wholesale grocery firm of M. A. Newmark & Co., of Los Angeles, and two young 
children. He and his family are members of the 'Brai 'Braith Congregation of 
Hebrews of Los Angeles.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 573
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler