Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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M. N. NEWMARK, 
 
grain dealer in Compton and at Bunwell Station, also doing a good livery 
business in Compton, and is one of Los Angeles County's most enterprising 
successful young men. In the grain business he has a storage capacity of 200,000 
sacks. Mr. Newmark is a native of Prussia, Germany. He came to San Francisco in 
1868, was in attendance for ten months at the Cosmopolitan School, and 
subsequently came to Los Angeles, where for two years he was in the wholesale 
grocery business with Newmark & Co. He then came to Compton and became 
associated in business with S. Grant, under the firm name of S. Grant & Co. In 
1878 this partnership was dissolved, the senior member going back to Europe, and 
Mr. Newmark continuing the enterprise in his own name until 1886. Since then he 
has given almost his exclusive attention to the grain business, but is also 
interested to some extent in insurance. He has been successful in his 
real-estate transactions, and owns several lots in Compton, besides a whole 
business block and the livery barn and grounds. He also owns several houses and 
lots in Los Angeles, where it is his intention to reside in the future, but will 
have an office in Compton. In 1880 he married Miss Jessie Malott, of Compton, 
and a daughter of William M. and Lucy Malott, a sketch of whose lives appears 
elsewhere in this work. Mr. Newmark has a high social standing in the Masonic 
fraternity, the I. O. O. F., and the A. O. U. W., at Compton. His residence will 
be on Louisiana avenue, Boyle Heights, in the city of Los Angeles.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 785
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler