Title:
Mayer family papers and photographs, 1885-1933
Creator/Contributor:
Mayer family., creator
Creator/Contributor:
Judah L. Magnes Museum, LIB 73.6 AR1.
Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.
Abstract:
Collection includes diaries (10 volumes in German) from 1885 through 1933, one letter from Max Mayer in Butte, Montana, and
family portraits and photographs (including early California cabinet cards).
Date:
1885 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca
Jews, German -- California
Jews, German -- Montana
Jews, German -- Nevada
Juifs allemands -- Californie
Juifs allemands -- Montana
Juifs allemands -- Nevada
Jews, German
California -- Genealogy
Montana -- Genealogy
Nevada -- Genealogy
Californie -- Généalogies
Montana -- Généalogies
Nevada -- Généalogies
California
Montana
Nevada
Myers family -- Archives
Myers family
Note:
Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number LIB 73.6 AR1.
UNARRANGED COLLECTION. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be submitted to The Bancroft Library
via the Notice of Interest in Unprocessed Collections form.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Transfer; Judah L. Magnes Museum; 2010.
The Mayer family has links to the San Francisco Bay Area, Downieville, California, Virginia City, Nevada and Butte, Montana.
Edward Mayer and Amalie Ettinger gave birth to six children in Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany. These children were Johanna (1831),
Bernhard (1835), Henry (1836), Maximilien Edward (1840), Leopold Nathan (1841), and Fritz (1842). Johanna married Emanuel
Hirshfelder and moved to Downieville, California in the the 1850s. Emmanuel Hirshfelder operated a dry goods and fancy goods
store serving the miners of the California Gold Rush. The couple had three children, Fannie, Emma, and Edward. Johanna died
in 1869. The Magnes has a letter she wrote her family in Europe describing in detail her journey by ship and train to California.
Johanna's brother, Henry Mayer, was an assayer in San Francisco in 1870. He married Henrietta Kramer, had four children in
San Francisco (Eugenia, Johanna, Alice, and Edward) and then, in 1878, relocated to Virginia City, Nevada, where he and his
wife had one other child (Joseph). By 1880, Henry had relocated with his family to Butte, Montana, where he had a pawnbroker
business. Henry died in 1885 in Montana. Upon Henry's death, Henrietta relocated to San Francisco and married Aron Meyer in
1887. Henrietta died in San Francisco in 1924. Many of Henry's and Henrietta's children, including Johanna (who married Jacob
Jacobson of San Francisco in 1889), Edward, and Joseph (who became a Bay Area attorney) returned to live in the Bay Area.
Henry's brother Max, already a resident of Butte, Montana (with his wife Dora Engel), worked as one of the first assayers
in Butte. He died in Montana in 1920. Leopold Nathan Mayer married Johanna Lurch in 1871 and lived for at least a decade in
Virginia City, Nevada before relocating to Butte, Montana. Leopold is buried in the B'nai Israel Cemetery in Butte.
Preferred citation: Mayer family papers and photographs, BANC MSS 2010/757, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life,
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Materials in English and German.
Type:
Archives.
Genealogy.
Physical Description:
print
1 box (.4 linear feet)
Language:
English
German
Identifier:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/bancroft-library/unprocessed-collections-form
Origin:
No place, unknown, or undetermined
Copyright Note:
UNARRANGED COLLECTION. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be submitted to The Bancroft Library
via the Notice of Interest in Unprocessed Collections form.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.