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Identifier: historyofcaliforsccts01guin (find matches)
Title: A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Guinn, James Miller, 1834-1918
Subjects: California -- History California, Southern -- History California -- Biography California, Southern -- Biography
Publisher: Los Angeles, Cal., Historic record company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ke many others, crossed on mule-back, hav-ing hired a great many of those trusty animals,on which they loaded their goods. They wentat once to Sacramento, then the most importantplace in California, but in the following yearestablished a wholesale house in San Franciscounder the name of Hamburger Brothers. AsherHamburger was identified with the business inSacramento and fire and flood on several oc-casions destroyed the labor of years and reducedhim to a state of poverty; but his undauntedwill and exuberant spirit always rose to the oc-casion, and being ever willing to put his shoulderto the wheel in due time he found again thesummit of success. In 1881 his two sons, S.A. and M. A. Hamburger, who were then in busi-ness with him in Sacramento, concluded theywanted larger fields for operation, so they in-duced their father to come to Los Angeles, andin November, 1881. the business that is now.A.. Hamburger & Sons, Incorporated, and thelargest in Southern California, was inaugurated.
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7f.7f.CL^_^ HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 733 INIr. Hamburger took an active interest in busi-ness affairs up to within a year of liis death,which occurred en the 2nd of December, 1897,he being then seventy-six years of age. Throughhis hberality, enterprise and energy he contri-buted towards many of the improvements andmonuments that have been erected in SouthernCahfornia. He had a most pleasant and fatherly-disposition, and through his kindness and good-heartedness has assisted many men to positionsof affluence in this country. The sons continue the business of A. Ham-burger & Sons, and out of this has grown theHamburger Realty and Trust Company, whichis now erecting a building in Los Angeles thatis to have three hundred feet front on Broad-way, one hundred and sixty feet front on Eighthstreet, one hundred and twenty-four feet fronton Hill street, and one hundred feet high. Thebuilding when completed will cost $1,000,000and will be the largest of its kind west of Chicagoand

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