51:, after the downtown area of wooden buildings was destroyed in the big 1889 fire. Insurance paid off only a fraction of the amount needed to rebuild the town at the time, and other banks and insurance companies refused to provide the remaining needed funds. The townspeople of Bakersfield approached Bank of Daniel Meyer to request additional funding for the rebuild.
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Bank of Daniel Meyer focused mainly on agriculture and mining operations in Nevada and
California, financing much of California's grain export which was at the time the principal source of income for the state. The bank furnished funds for development of lead and mercury mining properties, with a
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The Bank of Daniel Meyer was located at 212-214 Pine Street, San
Francisco, CA. Two historically important and notable loans made by the bank include: (1) Important support to fellow German Jewish immigrant Mr. August Schilling: founder of the Schilling spice company, which operated out of San
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The bank was dissolved soon after Daniel Meyer's death in 1911, at which time the Daniel Meyer estate was valued at more than $ 4,000,000: a very large sum in the early 20th century. The estate was distributed after paying an
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Virginia City, Nevada areas, establishing a bank at Reno, Nevada in 1887 with capitalization of $ 300,000.
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period in 1851-1852, having been tobacco merchants in the East Coast, USA. The
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of $ 238,718. This was the largest such tax ever paid in the State of
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Bakersfield Fire of 1889". Bakersfield News Bulletin. June 19, 1963.
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