Alameda County Biographies

MORRIS ROSENBERG

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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Born in Prussia, May 1, 1817.  At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to the 
tailor�s trade, and followed it until 1848, when he emigrated to the United 
States and settled in New York City, where he worked at his calling until 1852, 
in which year he came to California by way of the Isthmus.  After a delay of 
seven weeks in Panama, and a voyage of four months� duration, he landed in San 
Francisco and commenced working at his trade.  Two years and a half thereafter 
our subject moved to Placer County and opened a general merchandise 
establishment at Iowa Hill, where he remained until the destruction of his 
premises by fire on August 31, 1870.  He then settled in Oakland, where he has 
since resided.  Mr. Rosenberg came of a long-lived stock.  His maternal 
grandfather died at the age of one hundred and fourteen years; one of his aunts 
live to be one hundred and two years old; and uncle was ninety-seven and six 
months when he died, and his mother was called away from earth at the ripe age 
of ninety-five years and five months.  Mr. Rosenberg married in 1841, Miss Lena 
Copenhagen, and has five surviving children, viz.:  Jacob, Lasery, Charles, 
Theresa, and Tilla.
 
History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 969