Sacramento County
Biographies
ISAAC JOSEPH
ISAAC JOSEPH, attorney at law, 531 J street, Sacramento, was born April 25, 1862, in this city; attended high school here and also pursued the literary course at the State University at Berkeley; studied law in the office of Judge J. H. McKune, and was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court in 1884. Since 1885 he has been engaged in general law practice at the number given above. He is also a notary public. With the aid of D. E. Alexander, Esq., he compiled a work on probate practice on the Pacific coast, published by the Bancroft-Whitney Co., of San Francisco. Mr. Joseph is a striking example of what the physiognomists call a “fine mental organization,” and men of this character are always neat and thorough in their business and affable and unpretentious in manner. He is a member of the order of Chosen Friends, and a Republican in his political principles. His father, Michael Joseph, a native of Poland, came to California prior to 1850 and worked a long time in the gold mines. In 1852 he located in Sacramento, engaging in mercantile business. He soon moved to Marysville, where he was one of the earliest business men, and was prominent as a merchant there for a number of years. He was likewise employed in San Francisco for a time, and finally settled again in Sacramento, where he was engaged in merchandising until his death in 1876. He was a remarkable man in respect to energy and good judgment. Although almost completely burned out in Marysville and also in San Francisco, and suffered great losses by the fire of 1852 in Sacramento and the flood of 1862, he perseveringly recovered from them all. Mr. Joseph’s mother, nee Cornelia Lamm, is a native of France, came to Sacramento in 1852, and is now a resident here.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Page 737. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.