Sacramento County
Biographies
JACOB HYMAN
JACOB HYMAN, merchant at Folsom, was born in Poland, March 9, 1830. In 1850 he sailed from Hamburg, and landed at New Orleans August 10. He began to work for a farmer, who also sent him to school a little while. Remaining in the State of Mississippi until 1854, he came to California by the Panama route, landing at San Francisco on the steamer John L. Stephens, July 2. After clerking a year in the store of Mr. Levy at Mormon Island, he bought him out and continued the business there four years longer. He then came to Folsom, and in 1860 opened out where a blacksmith’s shop now stands, near the American Exchange Hotel. Afterward he moved into the American Exchange Hotel building, before it was opened as a hotel, and prosecuted his business there until 1870. Then he moved further up the street and took a corner store now kept by Isaac Fiel. In 1872 he purchased the property where he is now located, and has since occupied it. He has made good use of the little capital he brought with him to this State, by industry and perseverance. He is public-spirited, a Republican since he voted for Lincoln in 1860, a member of the Republican County Central Committee, and has always taken a great interest in public education. He has been a member of the Masonic order since 1860, of the Odd Fellows since 1872, and a charter member of 1878 of the A. O. U. W. Has held offices in some of the lodges. In 1865 he married Bella Stamper, a native of New York, and they have two sons and two daughters, viz: Isaac, Rosa, Walter and Laura.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Pages 678-679. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.