Madera County Biographies

N. ROSENTHAL

Transcribed by Craig A Hahn

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N. ROSENTHAL, manager of the general merchandise store of Rosenthal & Kutner, 
Madera, was born in Germany in 1853. After attending the common schools of that 
country, he was apprenticed to learn the mercantile business, beginning with the 
handling of wools, etc., in the manufactory, and studying every department to 
the sales room, thus acquiring a theoretical as well as practical knowledge. In 
1875 he emigrated direct to California, and settled in Fresno, engaging in the 
firm of Kutner & Goldstein, where he learned the English language and the 
American methods of doing business. After one year he started a small business 
in Fresno, keeping cigars and Yankee notions. After a little experience he 
extended his business to general merchandise, upon a cash principle, but after 
two years sold out to Kutner & Goldstein. He then went to Phoenix, Arizona, 
where he started a small store, and after one year took Mr. Kutner, of the firm 
Kutner & Goldstein, as partner, and they then extended their business, and for 
seven years were very prosperously engaged. They sold out in 1887 and came to 
Madera, where they established their present business, first in a temporary 
building while engaged in erecting their fine two-story brick store, 30 x 100 
feet, on the corner of Yo Semite and D streets, which they filled with a large 
and general assortment of household goods, furniture and farming implements. 
They also do a general business in grain and farm produce. Mr. Rosenthal manages 
the business, while Mr. Kutner, who lives in San Francisco, attends to the 
buying. 
     Mr. Rosenthal was married in San Francisco in 1883, to Miss Hattie Price, a 
native of California, and of German descent. They have one child, Thekla, born 
in 1884. Mr. Rosenthal is a member of Madera Lodge, No. 280, F. & A. M., and is 
treasurer of the Madera Irrigation District and of the Madera Masonic Building 
Association. 
 
Memorial and Biographical History of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, 
California Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892, p. 480-481