File:History of the state of California and biographical record of Oakland and environs, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present (1907) (14761368276).jpg

Identifier: historyofstateof00guin_3 (find matches)
Title: History of the state of California and biographical record of Oakland and environs, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Guinn, J. M. (James Miller), 1834-1918
Subjects:
Publisher: Los Angeles : Historic Record Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
aamong the representative citizens of California.

ANDREW ISADORE KARMAN.
While it is true that but a brief time has elapsed
since Mr. Karman came to Oakland, yet he has
already established a position among the business
men of the city and in his enterprise as proprie-
tor of a tailor shop bids fair to accumulate a
competence. Andrew Isadore Karman is a na-
tive of Hungary, born in 1872, and there grew to
manhood and received his educational training in
the public schools. At the age of twenty-seven
years he immigrated to America, locating first
in Canada and thence coming to the United States
and in Seattle, Wash., setting himself to learn
the trade of tailor. After completing his ap-
prenticeship he came to Oakland, Cal., and for
nine months was in the employ of S. N. Wood,
then went to San Francisco and opened a shop
in which he employed fifty men.
In 1905 Mr. Karman returned to Oakland and
at No. 1521 Seventh street established an inde-
pendent business in the tailoring line; later he
extended his business and also opened a shop
Text Appearing After Image:

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 619

at No. 1146 Adeline street, employing now al-
together fifteen hands. He has also found time
to ally himself with fraternal organizations, hav-
ing, in 1905, joined the Masonic order in Oak-
land, in Alcatraz Lodge, also belongs to the In-
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, the Foresters,
Woodmen of the World, and others. He is a
member of the First Hungarian Aid Society and
takes an active and helpful interest in his own
countrymen. He is an ardent supporter of Oak-
land's interests along civic lines and belongs to
the Boosters Club. In Seattle, Wash., he married
Miss Mollie Kahn and they now make their
home in Oakland.

WILLIAM SIMPSON.

When indulging in a retrospect of the years
that have passed, the thoughts of this old pioneer
often revert to the year 1849, when as a young
man of twenty-one years he set sail from New
York with San Francisco as his destination, full
of hope and ambition to win success and make a
name and place for himself in this land of oppor-
tunity, a hope which has been fulfilled even be-
yond his fondest dreams.

Note About Images