Aaron Fleishhacker

Aaron Fleishhacker (February 4, 1820 – February 19, 1898) was a German-born American businessman who founded paper box manufacturer, A. Fleishhacker & Co.[1]

Aaron Fleishhacker
BornFebruary 4, 1820
Kingdom of Bavaria
DiedFebruary 19, 1898 (age 78)
San Francisco, California
NationalityAmerican
OccupationBusinessman
Known forFounder of A. Fleishhacker & Co.
Spouse(s)Deliah Stern
Children8, including Herbert Fleishhacker

Biography

Fleishhacker was born in 1820 to a Jewish family in Kingdom of Bavaria.[2][3][4][5] In 1845, he immigrated to the United States first settling in New Orleans where he opened a retail store and then briefly to New York City before moving to San Francisco in 1853.[2] He moved around the region selling his wares to miners traveling to Sacramento, Grass Valley, Oregon, Virginia City, Nevada and Carson, Nevada.[2]

He then returned to San Francisco where he founded A. Fleishhacker & Co. with two manufacturing plants, one that made paper and one that made cardboard boxes.[2] The company was nicknamed the "Paper Bag House" and the company became the largest box manufacturer in the West.[5]

Personal life

In 1857, he married Deliah Stern of Albany, New York; they had eight children, six of whom survived to adulthood: Carrie Fleishhacker Schwabacher (married to Ludwig Schwabacher), Emma Fleishhacker Rosenbaum (married to S. D. Rosenbaum), Mortimer Fleishhacker (1866-1953), Herbert Fleishhacker (1872-1957), Belle Fleishhacker Scheeline (married to S. C. Scheeline), and Blanche Fleishhacker Wolf (married to Frank Wolf).[2][6]

He died in 1898 in San Francisco, California.[2]

He was a founding member of Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco.[2]

References
  1. Heymont, George (2013-07-13). "They Left Their Hearts in San Francisco". HuffPost. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  2. "Aaron Fleishhacker & Sons, Mortimer & Herbert: Jewish Pioneer Merchants, Manufacturers, Bankers and Philanthropists of San Francisco". Jewish Museum of the American West.
  3. Meyer, Martin A. (1916). The Jews of San Francisco. Congregation Emanu-El.
  4. Rosenbaum, Fred (2000). Visions of Reform: Congregation Emanu-El and the Jews of San Francisco, 1849-1999. Judah L. Magnus Museum.
  5. Levy, D. Blethen Adams. "VIPS in San Francisco: 1800s: Fleishhacker". The Maritime Heritage Project.
  6. Fleishhacker, David. "A Journey of Discovery: The Fleishhacker Family From The Argonaut". San Francisco Historical Society.
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