# Simon Koshland

Simon Koshland (1825–1896) was a Bavarian-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 (1825–1896) m. Rosina Frauenthal (1829–1911)
** Isidore Koshland (1852–1870)
** Joseph Koshland (1855–1940)
** Marcus Simon Koshland (1858–1925) m. Corrine M. Schweitzer (1867–1953)
*** Daniel E. Koshland Sr. (1892–1979) m. Eleanor Haas (1900–1959)
**** Daniel E. Koshland Jr. (1920–2007) m. Marian Elliott (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 (1951–)
***** Monica Ruth Geballe
***** Jennifer Corinne Geballe
***** Ernest Henry Geballe
**** Phyllis Koshland Friedman (1923–2019) m. Howard A. Friedman (1919–1988)
** Henrietta "Nettie" Koshland Sinsheimer (1860–1926)
** Caroline "Carrie" Koshland Greenebaum (1863–1946)
** Frances “Fannie” Koshland (1865–1949) m. Abraham Haas (1847–1921)
*** Charles Haas (c.1888–)
*** Walter A. Haas Sr. (1889–1979) m. Elise Stern (1893–1990)
**** Walter A. Haas Jr. (1916–1995) m. Evelyn Danzig (1917–2010)
***** Robert D. Haas (1942–)
***** Betsy Haas Eisenhardt m. Roy Eisenhardt (1939–)
***** Walter J. Haas
**** Peter E. Haas (1918–2005) m. Josephine Baum (1914–2014)
***** Peter E. Haas Jr. (1947–) m. Joanne Christensen; m. Ginnie Haas
****** Jennifer C. Haas
****** Daniel Haas
****** Bradley Haas
***** Margaret E. Haas Jones
***** Michael Stern Haas (1953–2003)
**** Rhoda Haas Goldman (1924–1996) m. Richard Goldman (1920–2010)
***** John D. Goldman (1949–) m. Marcia Koshland
****** Aaron Goldman (1980–)
****** Jessica Goldman Foung (1983–) m. Alejandro Foung
***** Douglas E. Goldman (1952–) m. Lisa Goldman
****** Jennifer Goldman
****** Jason Goldman
****** Matthew Goldman
***** Susan R. Gelman m. Michael Gelman
***** Richard W. Goldman (1947–1989) m. Susan Sachs
****** Daniel Sachs Goldman (1976–)
****** William "Bill" Sachs Goldman (1979–2017)
*** Ruth Haas Lilienthal (1891–1975) m. Philip Nettre Lilienthal Jr. (1889–1961)
*** Eleanor Haas Koshland (1900–1959) m. Daniel E. Koshland Sr. (1892–1979)
** Montefiore T. Koshland (1867–1889)
** Abraham Koshland (1869–1944) m. Estelle Wangenheim (1878–1960)
** Jesse Koshland (1871–1966) m. Edith R. Guggenhime (1887–1977)