Newmark, Edward J., son of Joseph Newmark, [121], [376], [624]
Newmark, Edward J., son of Harris Newmark, [515]
Newmark, Ella, daughter of Harris Newmark, [517], [533]
Newmark, Emily, daughter of Harris Newmark, [367]
Newmark, Estelle, daughter of Harris Newmark, [355]
Newmark (Neumark), Esther, mother of Harris Newmark, [1], [2], [3], [7]; death of, [360]
Newmark, Harriet, daughter of Joseph Newmark, [121], [195], [290]
Newmark, Harriet, daughter of J. P. Newmark, [444]
Newmark (Neumark), Harris, son of Philipp Neumark, birth, [1]; boyhood, [2]; accompanies father to Sweden, [3], [649]; first experience at sea, [3]; in Denmark and Sweden, [4]; returns to Loebau, [4]; becomes shoeblacking apprentice, [4]; visits Finland, [5]; experience with Russian bigotry, [5]; last winter at Loebau, [5]; invited by brother, J. P. Newmark, to come to California, [6]; leaves Gothenburg for America, [7]; forms peculiar acquaintance, [7]ff.; lands at Hull, [8]; arrested with fellow-passenger at Liverpool, [9]; misses steamer, [9]; sails from Liverpool, [10]; narrowly escapes shipwreck, [11]; arrives at New York, [12]; tries peddling—for a day, [13]; sails for California via Nicaragua, [14]; crosses the Isthmus, [15]; adventure on a mule, [16]; shares the vicissitudes of the trip with Lieutenant William Tecumseh Sherman, [17]; reaches the Pacific, [18]; enters the Golden Gate, [19]; meets Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Newmark and family, [121]; absorbed with early San Francisco life, [19]ff.; continues sea-trip to Southern California, [22]; disembarks at San Pedro, [22]; meets Phineas Banning, [23]; comes by stage to Los Angeles, [24]; amazed at first sight of Indians, squirrels and carne seca, [25]; reunion with brother, [26]; clerks for brother, [27]; makes rounds of Los Angeles gambling dens, [30]ff.; faces gun of drunken neighbor, [58]; and confronts weapon of another joker, [60]; early associations with Mayor Nichols, [32]; acts as agent for Henry Hancock, [37]; lives in the family of Joseph Newmark, [121]; first meeting with George Hansen, [37]; friendship with George Carson, [217]; learns Spanish before English, [121]; becomes charter member of Los Angeles Hebrew Benevolent Society, [123]; establishes himself in business, [128]; sacrifices necessary to attain success, [128]; first business profits, [128]; duns a debtor at some personal risk, [144]; becomes partner in Rich, Newmark & Co., [146]; business trips and adventures, [150]ff.; attends bull-fight, [161]; experiences first earthquake, [165]; participates in early social life, [183]; forms friendship with Cameron E. Thom, [228]; proposes marriage to Miss Sarah Newmark, [103]; third business venture, [189]; revisits San Francisco, [191]; rides horseback to Fort Tejón, [194]ff.; begins buying hides, [196]; joins the Masonic order, [203]; second experience with earthquake, [204]; as Vigilante, [205]; again visits San Francisco, [211]; dealings with Louis Robidoux, [175]; engages in sheep business, [220]; eyewitness to slaying of Sheriff Getman, [221]; marries Miss Sarah Newmark, [224], [589]; engages in the clothing trade, [237]; unfortunate business venture at Fort Tejón, [248]; participates in a rodeo, [242]; forms friendship with Winfield Scott Hancock, [246]; N. on Hancock's patriotism, [300]; becomes citizen of the United States, [249]; associations with Juan Bandini, [255]; appointed Deputy County Treasurer, [260]; delegate to Masonic ceremonies, San Francisco, [270]; first opportunity to use the telegraph, [271]; cordial relations with Senator Gwin, [296]; sees lynching of Cota, [304]; embarks in the commission business, [310]; suffers first loss of a child, [317]; is examined for health and becomes pioneer policy holder of Germania Insurance Company, [319]; present at wholesale lynching, [324]; condones lynch-law, [141]; probable narrow escape from accidental assassination, [330]; observes fearful effect of drought, [329]; loss in hide speculation, [331]; pays high price for flour and beans, [332]; buys first home, [335]; plays poker in jury-room, [55]; represses an anti-Lincoln demonstration and saves a friend, [337]; in response to a threat, establishes, with Phineas Banning, the firm of H. Newmark, soon H. Newmark & Co., [342]ff.; takes Frank Lecouvreur into his service, [344]; dealings with Mormons, [345]; forces business competitors to capitulate, [353]; buys out Banning, [353]; spectator at the King-Carlisle duel, [348]; also at the Kewen-Lemberg affray, [351]; decides to remove to New York, [359]; with family, crosses the Isthmus of Panamá, [359]; opens branch office in the metropolis, [359]; buys home in New York, [359]; revisits Europe, and sees again birthplace and father, [360]; at the Paris Exposition of 1867, [360]; unpleasant predicament at Covent Garden, [360]; bears to Miss Mary Hollister proposal of marriage from Phineas Banning, [368]; returns to Los Angeles, [376]; imports one of the first grand pianos seen here, [376]; introduces finger-bowls, [377]; installs bathroom in adobe, [119]; buys city acreage at auction, [379]; purchases site for home on Fort Street, [68], [381]; helps organize first social club, [383]; friendship with Remi Nadeau, [386]ff.; assists in welcoming William H. Seward, [398]; with an amusing result, [400]; involuntary candidate for Supervisorship, [403]; counsellor to Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent Society, [409]; intimate relations with early [ranchers], [421]; helps organize Sixth District Agricultural Society, [426]; on committee to arrange patriotic celebration, [428]; witnesses Chinese massacre, [434]; psychologically affected by the wool craze, [437]ff.; member of committee to invite Southern Pacific Railroad Company to build into Los Angeles, [440], [502]; helps prepare County railroad ordinances, [441]; one of the founders of the Public Library, [443]; visits Vasquez in captivity, [458]; travels to San Francisco by stage, [465]; N. on the future of Fort Street, [466]; housewarming, [467]; first meeting with Lucky Baldwin, [474]; visits Lake Tahoe, [477]; advises Juan Matías Sanchez against risking his property, [478]; buys first lot sold in Santa Monica, [480]; coöperates in editing Chamber of Commerce report for Centennial, [482]; by stage and rail to San Francisco, [496]; visits Centennial Exhibition, [497]; crossing Continent to New York by rail, [497]; makes use of early typewriter, [497]; again in San Francisco, [498]; takes part in the opening of San Fernando Tunnel, [504]; N. on discourteous treatment of C. F. Crocker by municipal authorities, [504]; relations with Leland Stanford, [322], [506]; dealings with John E. Hollenbeck, [492]; failure to appreciate land-values, [513]; sells Van Nuys Building site, [515]; removes temporarily to San Francisco, [520]; President of the Congregation, B'nai B'rith, [608]; President, Temple Block Co., [596]; meets Mme. Modjeska, [495]; director, Board of Trade, [537]; celebrates silver wedding, [538]; entertains Dr. Edward Lasker, [540]; tours Mexico and visits New Orleans Exposition, [546]; retires from wholesale grocery business, [549]; with Kaspare Cohn forms K. Cohn & Co., [549]; resumes shipping of hides and wool, [549]; relations with Alessandro Repetto, [552]ff.; administrator of Repetto's estate, [553]; one of the purchasers of the Repetto rancho, [552], [555]; a founder of Newmark and Montebello, [555]; invited to stand as candidate for Mayor, [556]; brings in Eastern coal at fabulously low rates, [557]; again tours Europe, [564]; N. on State division, [592]; invests in gas-making plant, [561]; in Alaska, [602]; at the Chicago Fair, [605]; dissolves partnership with Kaspare Cohn, [613]; revives H. Newmark & Co., [613]; on Pioneer Society committee, [614]; N.'s tribute to his brother, J. P. Newmark, [611]; builds residence on Grand Avenue, [593]; once more buys a lot at Santa Monica, [596]; final visit to Europe, [621]; builds Blanchard Hall, [68]; buys electric automobiles—and soon sells them, [626]; proposes monument to S. M. White, [469]; erects Gamut Club, [625]; participates in a movement to provide land for Federal Building, [630]; retires from business, [633]; N.'s tribute to Lionel J. Adams, [636]; golden wedding anniversary, [636]; at banquet to William H. Taft, [639]; N. on the death of his wife, [640]; recollections of family physicians, [648]; breaks ground for Jewish Orphans' Home, [643]; joins in testimonial to Griffith J. Griffith, [643]; speech at the half-century jubilee of M. A. Newmark & Co., [344]; receives loving cup, [344]; at Santa Monica, looking backward , [vii], [649]; views on longevity and health, [649]; attitude toward alcohol and tobacco, [649]; pride in Los Angeles, [651]; object in writing his memoirs , [ix], [477]
Newmark & Co., H., wholesale grocers, establishing of the firm, [343]; monopolize trade, [345]; supply Government stores, [354]; agents for insurance, [280]; affected by hard times, [358]; open branch office in New York, [359]; trade with Arizona, [414]; declared "the largest shippers," [436]; attitude toward a proposed opposition steamer, [436]; assistance rendered Remi Nadeau, [386]ff.; dealers in wool, [437]; purchase the Santa Anita rancho, [439]; the first to operate a two horse flat-truck, [439]; sale of the Santa Anita, [474]; their patronage solicited by Leland Stanford, [322], [506]; twice burglarized, [486]; fight with the Southern Pacific Railroad Co., [506]; purchase of Temple Block, [510]; early to employ traveling salesmen, [521]; loss in barley speculation, [534]; among the first to use the telephone, [531]; give fountain to the City, [534]; removal from Arcadia Block to Amestoy Building, Los Angeles Street, [537]; dissolution of the firm, [549]; revival, a decade later, [613]; [111], [230], [252], [301], [375], [379], [382], [422], [425], [444], [451], [475], [478], [500], [502], [514], [521], [526], [535]