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<span style="color:#006400">'''WEILL, Alexander'''</span> (1834-1906), original investor in the Santa Cruz Island Company in 1869, along with along with nine others: | <span style="color:#006400">'''WEILL, Alexander'''</span> (1834-1906), original investor in the Santa Cruz Island Company in 1869, along with along with nine others: | ||
* Pablo Baca | * [[BACA, Pablo|Pablo Baca ]] | ||
* Justinian Caire | * [[CAIRE, Justinian|Justinian Caire ]] | ||
* Giovanni Battista Cerruti | * [[CERRUTI, Giovanni Battista|Giovanni Battista Cerruti ]] | ||
* Thomas J. Gallagher | * [[GALLAGHER, Thomas J.|Thomas J. Gallagher]] | ||
* Adrien Gensoul | * [[GENSOUL, Adrien|Adrien Gensoul]] | ||
* Nicolas Larco | * [[LARCO, Nicola (Nicholas)|Nicolas Larco]] | ||
* Gustave | * [[MAHE, Gustave|Gustave Mahé ]] | ||
* Camilo Martin | * [[MARTIN, Camilo|Camilo Martin]] | ||
* T. Lemmen Meyer | * [[LEMMEN MEYER, Theodore|T. Lemmen Meyer]] | ||
* [[WEILL, Alexander|Alexander Weill]] | |||
Weill was company president in 1879, after the suicide of Gustav Mahé, former company president. Weill was born in Phalsbourg, France. He married Julie Kahn in San Francisco, a half-sister of the Lazard Brothers. Weill died in Paris in 1906. He had worked for the hardware business, Lazard Freres & Co. which he converted to an investment banking firm. [Gherini, 1997:76]. | Weill was company president in 1879, after the suicide of Gustav Mahé, former company president. Weill was born in Phalsbourg, France. He married Julie Kahn in San Francisco, a half-sister of the Lazard Brothers. Weill died in Paris in 1906. He had worked for the hardware business, Lazard Freres & Co. which he converted to an investment banking firm. [Gherini, 1997:76]. | ||
=====<span style="color:#006400">In the News</span>===== | |||
'''December 8, 1879 [DAC]:''' “Office of the Santa Cruz Island Company, No. 530 Washington Street, San Francisco—To the Stockholders of the Santa Cruz Island Company: The Stockholders of the Santa Cruz Island Company are hereby notified that it is proposed by the said Company, by resolution of its Board of Trustees, adopted at a meeting held on November 22nd, 1879, at the office of the Company, No. 530 Washington Street, San Francisco, to diminish the Capital Stock to the sum and amount of $50,000; and that a special meeting of the Stockholders be called, to be held at the office of the Company, No. 530 Washington Street, San Francisco, on the twenty-third day of December, A.D. 1879, at 11 o’clock A.M. of that day, to consider and vote upon the said proposition; and that the notice to Stockholders of the meeting be published once a week for four weeks successively in the Daily Alta California, a newspaper printed and published in the City and County of San Francisco. By the order of the Board of Trustees. A. Weill, President of the Santa Cruz Island Company. Mark Tromboni, Secretary.” | '''December 8, 1879 [DAC]:''' “Office of the Santa Cruz Island Company, No. 530 Washington Street, San Francisco—To the Stockholders of the Santa Cruz Island Company: The Stockholders of the Santa Cruz Island Company are hereby notified that it is proposed by the said Company, by resolution of its Board of Trustees, adopted at a meeting held on November 22nd, 1879, at the office of the Company, No. 530 Washington Street, San Francisco, to diminish the Capital Stock to the sum and amount of $50,000; and that a special meeting of the Stockholders be called, to be held at the office of the Company, No. 530 Washington Street, San Francisco, on the twenty-third day of December, A.D. 1879, at 11 o’clock A.M. of that day, to consider and vote upon the said proposition; and that the notice to Stockholders of the meeting be published once a week for four weeks successively in the Daily Alta California, a newspaper printed and published in the City and County of San Francisco. By the order of the Board of Trustees. A. Weill, President of the Santa Cruz Island Company. Mark Tromboni, Secretary.” | ||
Revision as of 17:17, 21 April 2014
WEILL, Alexander (1834-1906), original investor in the Santa Cruz Island Company in 1869, along with along with nine others:
- Pablo Baca
- Justinian Caire
- Giovanni Battista Cerruti
- Thomas J. Gallagher
- Adrien Gensoul
- Nicolas Larco
- Gustave Mahé
- Camilo Martin
- T. Lemmen Meyer
- Alexander Weill
Weill was company president in 1879, after the suicide of Gustav Mahé, former company president. Weill was born in Phalsbourg, France. He married Julie Kahn in San Francisco, a half-sister of the Lazard Brothers. Weill died in Paris in 1906. He had worked for the hardware business, Lazard Freres & Co. which he converted to an investment banking firm. [Gherini, 1997:76].
In the News
December 8, 1879 [DAC]: “Office of the Santa Cruz Island Company, No. 530 Washington Street, San Francisco—To the Stockholders of the Santa Cruz Island Company: The Stockholders of the Santa Cruz Island Company are hereby notified that it is proposed by the said Company, by resolution of its Board of Trustees, adopted at a meeting held on November 22nd, 1879, at the office of the Company, No. 530 Washington Street, San Francisco, to diminish the Capital Stock to the sum and amount of $50,000; and that a special meeting of the Stockholders be called, to be held at the office of the Company, No. 530 Washington Street, San Francisco, on the twenty-third day of December, A.D. 1879, at 11 o’clock A.M. of that day, to consider and vote upon the said proposition; and that the notice to Stockholders of the meeting be published once a week for four weeks successively in the Daily Alta California, a newspaper printed and published in the City and County of San Francisco. By the order of the Board of Trustees. A. Weill, President of the Santa Cruz Island Company. Mark Tromboni, Secretary.”
June 25, 1906 [LAT]: “Alexander Weill, one of the principal members of the firm of Lazard Freres, bankers, died in Paris yesterday.”
July 4, 1906 [LAT]: “Alexander Weill, the great banker who was buried in Paris last week, was one of San Francisco’s earliest pioneers. He was born in Phalsbourg, Lorraine June 21, 1834, and came to California in February, 1850.”
