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Biographies
MARCO ROSS NEWMARK
Marco Ross Newmark, who has long
figured prominently in the business circles of Los Angeles, is president of M.
A. Newmark & Company, one of the leading and best known wholesale grocery
houses in this city. He was born in Los
Angeles on the 8th of October, 1878, a son of Harris and Sarah
(Newmark) Newmark, the former having become a pioneer merchant of the
city. He acquired his elementary
education in the public schools and continued his studies at the University of
California, from which institution he was graduated in 1902 with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts. Later he was a student
at the University of Berlin in Germany for one semester. In 1904 he entered the wholesale establishment
of M. A. Newmark & Company in a subordinate capacity and by faithful and
efficient service was successively promoted until he was made a vice
president. After the death of M. A.
Newmark, he was made president, a position which he still holds, although he
retired from active service in July, 1930.
He is also president of the Harris Newmark Company, a holding company
incorporated in 1903 by his father, Harris Newmark.
On the 6th of June, 1906,
Mr. Newmark was united in marriage to Miss Constance Meyberg,
of Los Angeles, and they are the parents of two children, Harris and Eleanor.
In his political views Mr. Newmark
is a Republican and has manifested a commendable interest in matters affecting
the welfare and prosperity of his native city.
He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, in which he has received the
Scottish Rite decoration of Knight Commander of the
Court of Honor. In 1906 and again in
1920 he was president of Los Angeles Lodge, Independent Order of B’nai
B’rith. He belongs to the Native Sons of
the Golden West, to the Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity (honorary), the University
Club of Los Angeles, Uplifters Club, the Gamut Club,
the Automobile Club of Southern California, the Town Club and the Southern
California Rod and Reel Club. The firm
of M. A. Newmark & Company has membership in the Los Angeles Merchants and
Manufacturers Association, of which Marco R. Newmark was treasurer from 1916 to
1919 and is now a director (elected in 1932); in the Los Angeles Chamber of
Commerce, of which he was a director in 1931; and in the Los Angeles Produce
Exchange, of which he was president in 1920.
He was chairman of the Executive Committee of the Southern California
Division of the Camp Library Fund of the United States Army and was one of the
organizers of the Nathan Straus Palestine Advancement Society of Los
Angeles. He is Secretary of the Southern
California Jewish Orphans Home, ex-president of the Los Angeles District
Zionist Organization, and President of the Federation of Jewish Welfare
Organizations of Los Angeles. Formerly
he was associate editor and director of the Masonic Digest, and together with
his brother, the late Maurice H. Newmark, he edited his father’s work entitled
“Sixty Years in Southern California.” He
also collaborated with his brother in publishing the Census of Los Angeles City
and County for the Year 1850. He has
been actively interested in all movements having for their object the
advancement of the city and county along material or civic lines and is
recognized as one of the most public-spirited citizens of this part of the
state.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 21-22, Clarke Publ.,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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