Brothers Isaac and Simon Glazier, who were both born in Austria, immigrated to the United States and settled in Marysville, California (1851). There, they opened the Old Corner Cigar Store, a business made profitable by supplying tobacco to miners. Simon married Clara May (1859) and, soon after, Isaac married Bertha Kohn. In 1862, the Glaziers relocated to San Francisco, where they joined William Seligsberg in a partnership on the San Francisco Stock Exchange. In 1874, the firm was renamed I. Glazier and Company. Shortly thereafter, the Glaziers sent for Phillip and Jacob Barth, nephews of theirs living in Europe. The firm was then renamed J. Barth and Company, and it developed into one of the most successful brokerage houses on the West Coast. Isaac and Bertha Glazier moved to New York and Isaac and Simon Glazier died in 1906 and 1908. Henry S. Glazier, Isaac's nephew, and Henry's son Henry S. Glazier, Jr. assumed responsibility for the family's Elmira Ranch in Solano County. The ranch, proving unprofitable, was sold in 1935. Isaac and Bertha Glazier retained close contact with their European relatives and endeavored through bequests and trusts to assist their family. For the first thirty years of the twentieth century, the American Glaziers sent small amounts of money to relatives in Germany and Austria as they exchanged information about family affairs, deaths, and births. As the Nazi threat grew more ominous, the European Glaziers wrote asking for assistance to come to the United States. Henry Glazier attempted to provide assistance, but the Glazier relatives still had difficulty leaving Europe. Henry Glazier and his brother William received news of which family members perished in the Holocaust accompanied by requests for food, clothing, and medical supplies from those who had survived.
From the description of Glazier family papers, 1852-1957. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 700285290
