Son-in-law of Leopold Harris, and partner with him in Harris & Frank men's clothiers.
Biography:
Herman Washington Frank (1860-1941) Born in Portland, Oregon and educated there and at what is now Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, he worked first in a store in his home state before going to San Francisco and becoming a traveling salesperson for a wholesale mercantile establishment. In 1887, during the great boom, he relocated to Los Angeles and joined the firm of Leopold Harris and became one of a cadre of Jewish merchants in town. Frank married Harris' daughter and was a partner in what was the London Clothing Company and which became Harris & Frank, a very successful enterprise.
Frank was also a member of the city's Board of Education and chair of its finance committee; a director and president of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association and, for ten years to date, president of Associated Charities, with special attention given to the work he and Judge Charles Silent did in dealing with large numbers of unemployed men who came to the city in 1898, including forming work crews for building roads and the Fremont Gate at Elysian Park. Frank was also secretary of the Leopold Harris Realty Company, director of the National Bank of California, and secretary of the Riverside Vineyard Company, which managed 1,800 acres of vineyards in Los Angeles County, and secretary of the Congregation B'nai B'rith.
Bio by Jim Craig
Biography:
Herman Washington Frank (1860-1941) Born in Portland, Oregon and educated there and at what is now Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, he worked first in a store in his home state before going to San Francisco and becoming a traveling salesperson for a wholesale mercantile establishment. In 1887, during the great boom, he relocated to Los Angeles and joined the firm of Leopold Harris and became one of a cadre of Jewish merchants in town. Frank married Harris' daughter and was a partner in what was the London Clothing Company and which became Harris & Frank, a very successful enterprise.
Frank was also a member of the city's Board of Education and chair of its finance committee; a director and president of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association and, for ten years to date, president of Associated Charities, with special attention given to the work he and Judge Charles Silent did in dealing with large numbers of unemployed men who came to the city in 1898, including forming work crews for building roads and the Fremont Gate at Elysian Park. Frank was also secretary of the Leopold Harris Realty Company, director of the National Bank of California, and secretary of the Riverside Vineyard Company, which managed 1,800 acres of vineyards in Los Angeles County, and secretary of the Congregation B'nai B'rith.
Bio by Jim Craig
Son-in-law of Leopold Harris, and partner with him in Harris & Frank men's clothiers.
Biography:
Herman Washington Frank (1860-1941) Born in Portland, Oregon and educated there and at what is now Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, he worked first in a store in his home state before going to San Francisco and becoming a traveling salesperson for a wholesale mercantile establishment. In 1887, during the great boom, he relocated to Los Angeles and joined the firm of Leopold Harris and became one of a cadre of Jewish merchants in town. Frank married Harris' daughter and was a partner in what was the London Clothing Company and which became Harris & Frank, a very successful enterprise.
Frank was also a member of the city's Board of Education and chair of its finance committee; a director and president of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association and, for ten years to date, president of Associated Charities, with special attention given to the work he and Judge Charles Silent did in dealing with large numbers of unemployed men who came to the city in 1898, including forming work crews for building roads and the Fremont Gate at Elysian Park. Frank was also secretary of the Leopold Harris Realty Company, director of the National Bank of California, and secretary of the Riverside Vineyard Company, which managed 1,800 acres of vineyards in Los Angeles County, and secretary of the Congregation B'nai B'rith.
Bio by Jim Craig
Biography:
Herman Washington Frank (1860-1941) Born in Portland, Oregon and educated there and at what is now Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, he worked first in a store in his home state before going to San Francisco and becoming a traveling salesperson for a wholesale mercantile establishment. In 1887, during the great boom, he relocated to Los Angeles and joined the firm of Leopold Harris and became one of a cadre of Jewish merchants in town. Frank married Harris' daughter and was a partner in what was the London Clothing Company and which became Harris & Frank, a very successful enterprise.
Frank was also a member of the city's Board of Education and chair of its finance committee; a director and president of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association and, for ten years to date, president of Associated Charities, with special attention given to the work he and Judge Charles Silent did in dealing with large numbers of unemployed men who came to the city in 1898, including forming work crews for building roads and the Fremont Gate at Elysian Park. Frank was also secretary of the Leopold Harris Realty Company, director of the National Bank of California, and secretary of the Riverside Vineyard Company, which managed 1,800 acres of vineyards in Los Angeles County, and secretary of the Congregation B'nai B'rith.
Bio by Jim Craig
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Cremated at Chapel of the Pines.
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