Fresno County Biographies

Sigmund Wormser

Submitted by Sally Kaleta, June, 2007

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	Sigmund Wormser, a prominent businessman of Kingsbury, Fresno 
County, California, is a native of Wurtemberg, Germany, born December 11, 1859. 
Early in life he was sent to school in Canstatt, Germany, and finished his 
studies at an academy of high reputation in that place. He afterward entered a 
business establishment in Ulm of Donan, in which he remained for a period of two 
years. Then he went to Dublin and from there, in 1880, came to America. Before 
settling down to business in this country, Mr. Wormser made a prospecting tour 
through many States of the Union, traveling most of the time for six months. 
After a brief business engagement in Pittsburg, he entered upon another and more 
extensive tour, visiting the diamond fields of South Africa, Australia and the 
South Sea Islands. In 1886 he returned to America, coming to California and 
settling in Kingsburg, Fresno County, November 23, of that year. He immediately 
entered into a business arrangement with Louis Einstein and Louis Gundelfinger 
of Fresno and established the mercantile house of which he is now manager. Mr. 
Gundelfinger recently withdrawing, the firm now consists of Mr. Wormser and Mr. 
Einstein, the business being conducted under the name of Einstein & Wormser. 
They transact a general mercantile business and enjoy a large and steadily 
increasing trade. Mr. Wormser is one of the prominent men of the town, being 
thoroughly identified with the progressive element of the place. For some time 
he has been a director of the Kingsburg Improvement Company, and now holds the 
office of secretary and treasurer of that organization. Mr. Wormser has been 
fortunate in the selection of a home in this productive valley, and he has 
chosen a native daughter of the Golden West to preside over it. November 28, 
1890, he wedded Anna E. Jacobson, whose birthplace is San Francisco. 

Source: "The Memorial and Biographical History of the County of Fresno, Tulare 
and Kern, California," Lewis Publ. Co., 1892, pp. 474-475.