Simon Koshland

Simon Koshland (1825–1896) was a Kingdom of Bavaria-born American businessman, and wool merchant. He is the patriarch of the Koshland and Haas family of San Francisco.

Biography
Simon Koshland was born in Ichenhausen, Kingdom of Bavaria in 1825. In 1850, he immigrated to Sacramento via Panama with his older brother where they opened a general merchandise store. In 1862, he moved to San Francisco after his store was burned down in a flood where he and his brother opened a wool house named Koshland Brothers. The company eventually morphed into Koshland & Sons and became the leading wool house in America.

Koshland retired in the 1890s; his sons and sons-in-law continued the family business.

Personal life
Koshland married Rosina Franenthal of Philadelphia; they had 8 children: Isidore, Joseph, Marcus, Henrietta, Caroline, Frances, Montefiore, Abraham, and Jesse. His daughter Frances married Abraham Haas, and his son Marcus had a son, Daniel E. Koshland Sr., who married Eleanor Haas, the daughter of Abraham Haas.

He was a member of Ohabai Shalome Congregation; and later Temple Emanu-El. He died in 1896, and is buried at Home of Peace Cemetery in Colma, California.

Descendants
Some of Koshland's descendants include:


 * Simon Koshland
 * Isidore Koshland
 * Joseph Koshland (1854-1940)
 * Marcus Simon Koshland (1858-1930)
 * Daniel E. Koshland Sr. (1892-1979) m. Eleanor Haas
 * Daniel E. Koshland Jr. m. Marian Koshland (née Elliot)(1921-1997)
 * Ellen Koshland
 * Phyllis "Phylp" Koshland
 * James Koshland
 * Gail Koshland
 * Douglas Koshland (1953-) m. Mary Porter
 * Frances "Sissy" Koshland (1921–2019) m. Theodore H. Geballe (1920-2021)
 * Gordon Theodore Geballe
 * Alison Frances Geballe
 * Adam Phillip Geballe
 * Monica Ruth Geballe
 * Jennifer Corinne Geballe
 * Ernest Henry Geballe
 * Phyllis Koshland Friedman
 * Henrietta Koshland Sinsheimer (1860-????)
 * Caroline Koshland Greenebaum (1863-1946)
 * Frances “Fanny” Koshland (1865-1949) m. Abraham Haas (1847-1921)
 * Walter A. Haas Sr. (1889-1979)
 * Rhoda Haas Goldman (1924-1996) m. Richard Goldman
 * John D. Goldman m. Marcia Koshland
 * Aaron Goldman (1980-)
 * Jessica Goldman Foung (1983-)
 * Douglas E. Goldman m. Lisa Goldman
 * Jennifer Goldman
 * Jason Goldman
 * Matthew Goldman
 * Susan R. Gelman m. Michael Gelman
 * Richard W. Goldman
 * Daniel Sachs Goldman (1976-)
 * Peter E. Haas (1918-2005)
 * Peter E. Haas Jr.
 * Margaret Haas Jones
 * Michael Stern Haas
 * Walter A. Haas Jr. (1916-1995) m. Evelyn Danzig Haas (1917-2010)
 * Bob Haas
 * Walter J. Haas
 * Charles Haas
 * Ruth Haas Lilienthal
 * Eleanor Haas Koshland
 * Montefiore T. Koshland (born 1868)
 * Abraham Koshland (1869–1944)
 * Jesse Koshland (1871–1966)