Simon Koshland (1825–1896) was a Bavarian-born American businessman, and wool merchant.[1] He is the patriarch of the Koshland and Haas family of San Francisco.[2][3]
Biography
Simon Koshland was born in Ichenhausen, Kingdom of Bavaria in 1825.[2] In 1850, he immigrated to Sacramento via Panama with his older brother where they opened a general merchandise store.[2] 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.[2]