Zellerbach family

Biography

Anthony Zellerbach (1832-1911) was born in Bavaria and immigrated to the United States in the mid-1840s. He initially lived in Philadelphia but came to San Francisco via the isthmus of Panama in 1856. He settled in Moores Flat, California (a Gold Rush town). In March of 1863, he married Theresa Mohr (b. 1840). The couple would have nine children (Jacob, Isadore, Henry, Edward, Eugene, Bella, Lillian, Hazel, and Arthur). Isidore Zellerbach was born in Moores Flat in 1866. In 1868, Anthony, faced with decreasing opportunities in gold mining, moved his family to San Francisco, where he began dealing in paper. Anthony founded his own paper business, A. Zellerbach & Sons, in 1876. The company changed its name to the Zellerbach Paper Company in 1907. Isadore joined his father's company in 1888 and would be the major force behind the company until his death in 1941. Isadore married Jennie Baruh in 1891 and they had two sons, James David (J.D.) and Harold Lionel (H.L.), and one daughter, Claire (later Mrs. A.B. Saroni). After Isidore's death, sons J.D. and Harold assumed prominent positions in the Zellerbach company. J.D. married Hannah Fuld in 1916 and Harold married Doris Joseph in 1917. Harold and Doris had three children, Rolinda (b. 1918), William J. (b. 1920), and Stephen A. (b.1927). Both William and Stephen played prominent roles in the Zellerbach Paper Company (and the Crown Zellerbach Corporation). Stephen A. Zellerbach married Merla Burstein, daughter of Rabbi Burstein of San Francisco's Congregation Beth Israel, in 1950.