Alameda County Biographies

LASERY ROSENBERG

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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Was born in Prussia, February, 1846, and is the son of Morris and Lena 
(Copenhagen) Rosenberg.  When but two years of age he was taken by his parents 
to the United States, and resided in New York until 1856, when they moved to 
California and located in Oakland.  Our subject now attended the Collegiate 
Institute of the late Rev. H. Durant until the year 1860, meanwhile residing 
with his uncle, Samuel Hirshberg, his father being at Iowa Hill, Placer County.  
In 1870 Mr. Rosenberg moved to San Francisco, attended the High School there 
until 1863, and then proceeding to Iowa Hill, there embarked in a general 
mercantile business.  Remaining there until his establishment was destroyed by 
fire on August 31, 1870, he then returned to Oakland, and purchasing the cigar 
and tobacco store of Walter Smith at the corner of Seventh Street and Broadway, 
has since continued operations in that branch of trade.  In January, 1878, he 
opened his present stand at No. 909 Broadway, Oakland.  Married June 10, 1879, 
Miss Sara Wolff of San Francisco, and has two children, viz.:  Herbert M. and 
Gladys.
 
History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 969