Harris Newmark
Businessperson, Author
1834 – 1916
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Who was Harris Newmark?
Harris Newmark was a Prussian-American businessman, philanthropist, and historian. Born in Löbau in Province of Saxony Newmark emigrated to the United States in 1853, sailed from Europe to New York City to San Francisco, and finally settled in Los Angeles. The Newmark clan was one of the founding families of the Los Angeles area.
Newmark's memoir, Sixty Years in Southern California: 1853-1913, has been cited in dozens of academic papers and books, and is considered to be the Los Angeles equivalent of a Pepys diary.
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- Born
- Jul 5, 1834
Löbau - Nationality
- Germany
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- 1916
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on July 23, 2013
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