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Abraham Haas
Abraham Haas (1847–August 8, 1921) was an American businessman, co-founder of the Hellman, Haas & Co. (which became Smart & Final), and patriarch of the Haas family. Biography Haas was born to a Jewish family in Reckendorf, Kingdom of Bavaria in 1847 and immigrated to Portland, Oregon at the age of 16 where he worked at a grocery store founded by his cousins, Charles, Samuel, and Kalman Haas. He then moved to Los Angeles where he co-founded the retail drug and grocery store, ''Hellman, Haas and Company'' with his brother, Jacob, and partners, Herman W. Hellman (brother of banker Isaias W. Hellman) and Bernard Cohn (later the Mayor of Los Angeles). Using his profits, he founded the first flour milling and cold storage businesses in Los Angeles, the Capital Milling Company, as well as several electricity and gas companies. In the 1880s, Jacob Baruch bought out the other partners and the company changed its name to ''Haas, Baruch & Co.'' in 1889. The company pioneered the " cash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reckendorf
Reckendorf is a community in the district of Bamberg, in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. With roughly 2,000 inhabitants, Reckendorf is a member of the administrative community (''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'') of Baunach. Geography Reckendorf lies in the Upper Franconia-Northwest region. Constituent communities Reckendorf's main and namesake centre is by far the biggest of its ''Gemeindeteile'' with a population of 1,952. The community furthermore has these outlying centres, each given here with its own population figure: *Laimbach 54 *Obermanndorf 28 *Untermanndorf 17 *Zeitzenhof 5 The community also has four traditional rural land units, known in German as ''Gemarkungen'', named Laimbach, Reckendorf, Daschendorfer Forst and Lußberger Forst, two of which have the same names as two of the constituent communities (it is traditional for a ''Gemarkung'' to be named after a town or village lying nearby). The other two are woodlands. History The Lords of Schöfstall were from 1349 un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |