Joseph P. Newmark (born 1827) is known as a Prussian-American businessman who helped develop the

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area and a member of the

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. There he founded the

Rich & Newmark Joseph P. Newmark (born 1827) is known as a Prussian-American businessman who helped develop the Los Angeles, California area and a member of the Newmark family. There he founded the Rich & Newmark clothing store with Jacob Rich. He later fou ...

clothing store with Jacob Rich. He later founded Newmark, Kremer & Co., a wholesale-retail dry goods store, with other family members. He was born in

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(now

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, Poland). He immigrated to the United States in 1848, settling in Los Angeles by 1852. He invited his younger brother

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to immigrate and join his business. Others participating in the next dry goods store, noted above, included their uncle

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, and

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. Harris soon left to develop his own businesses in the region. Newmark also left the partnership and moved to

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, where he became a merchandise broker. After he retired in 1888, he returned to Los Angeles.

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