Isaias W. Hellman
Isaias Wolf Hellman was a Germanborn American banker and philanthropist, and a founding father of the University of Southern California.
One of three sons and four daughters, Isaias was born in Reckendorf, Bavaria, to German Jewish parents Wolf Hellmann , a master weaver, and Sara Fleischmann . He was educated in German public schools and at the College of Marktbreit, Bavaria. This school was founded by a Jew named Solomon Wohl in 1849. About half the students were gentiles. Isaias and his brother Herman W. Hellman left Hamburg on the steamer Hammonia, arriving in the Los Angeles, California on May 14, 1859 to join their cousins. A third brother James Hellman also emigrated to Los Angeles. The four sisters were Bertha , Flora , Regina and Ernestine . Ernestine married a wealthy cattle merchant named Schloss. Hellman went to work as a clerk in his cousins dry goods store. He opened his own dry goods store in April 1865 on the Baker Block.
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