Simon, Adele Bloch, 1889-1969.

After arriving in San Francisco in 1849, John Steinman became proprietor of the New Atlantic Hotel. Clara Steinman, daughter of John Steinman and Adelaide Heller, married Achille Bloch, who came to San Francisco in 1871, after emigrating from Alsace. The daughter of Clara Steinman and Achille Bloch, Adele (1886-1969), married Richard Simon. Adele Bloch Simon was a founder and first president of the Gough Oral Deaf Parent Teachers Association, initiated state legislation concerning education of deaf children, and was involved in planning a PTA national program for handicapped children at a 1930 White House conference. An officer of the National Council of Jewish Women and of its San Francisco Section, she was an observer for the General Federation of Women's Clubs at the United Nations General Assembly in Paris, France in 1948.