{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Isaac Magnin | image = Isaac Magnin.jpg | birth_name = Isaac Moeijen | birth_date = {{birth date text|1842}} | birth_place = Assen or Groningen, the Netherlands | death_date = {{Death date and age|1907|01|27|1842|01|01}} | death_place = San Francisco, California, U.S. | resting_place = Hills of Eternity Memorial Park, Colma, California, US | known_for = | employer = | occupation = | spouse = Mary Ann Cohen | parents = | relatives = Edgar Magnin (grandson)<br> Cyril Magnin (grandson)<br> Mae Brussell (great granddaughter) }} '''Isaac Magnin''' (1842–1907) was a Dutch-born American businessperson, carver and gilder. He was the co-founder of I. Magnin, an upscale women's clothing store in San Francisco, California.
==Early life== Isaac Magnin (or Moeijen) was born into a Jewish family in Assen or Groningen, the Netherlands in 1842.<ref name="encyclopedia">Kahn, Ava F.. [https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/magnin-mary-ann-cohen "Mary Ann Cohen Magnin."] Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. March 1, 2009. Jewish Women's Archive. (Viewed on December 7, 2014)</ref><ref name="robertp">Robert P. Swierenga, ''The Forerunners: Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora'', Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 1994, pp. 309–312 [https://archive.org/details/forerunnersdutch00swie/page/311]</ref><ref name="jamesdavidhart">James David Hart, ''A Companion to California: Newly Revised and Expanded with Illustrations'', Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1987, p. 299 [https://books.google.com/books?id=nQpvbaeJQCYC&pg=PA299]</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G60L2WAMm14C&q=isaac+magnin&pg=PA125|title=Western Jewry: An Account of the Achievements of the Jews and Judaism in California : Including Eulogies and Biographies. The Jews in California|pages=125–126 |publisher=Henry Hollander|date=December 31, 1916}}</ref> His father was from Russia and his mother, Dutch-born.<ref name="robertp"/> He moved to the United States with his parents when he was eight years old.<ref name="robertp"/><ref name="jamesdavidhart"/>
==Career== He worked as a businessman in Texas and New Mexico.<ref name="robertp"/> During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, he served in the Union Army.<ref name="robertp"/> He then worked as a pushcart peddler in New Orleans, Louisiana.<ref name="harrietrochlin">Harriet Rochlin, Fred Rochlin, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=pTwqwB3952QC&pg=PA176 Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far West]'', Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000, pp. 176–177 [https://books.google.com/books?id=pTwqwB3952QC&pg=PA176]</ref> Next, he moved to London, where he established an arts goods store.<ref name="robertp"/><ref name="harrietrochlin"/> A decade later, in 1876, he set sail for San Francisco via Cape Horn, with his wife and children.<ref name="robertp"/><ref name="harrietrochlin"/> There, he worked as a frame carver and gilder for Solomon Gump, an art and antique dealer and owner of Gump's.<ref name="harrietrochlin"/> By 1880, he was listed in the census as the keeper of a fancy bazaar.<ref name="robertp"/> With his wife, he was also the co-founder of I. Magnin, an upscale women's clothing store in San Francisco.<ref name="robertp"/>
He was interested in socialism.<ref name="harrietrochlin"/>
==Personal life== He married Mary Ann Cohen on October 8, 1865, at the Great Synagogue of London.<ref name="encyclopedia"/><ref name="robertp"/> They had eight children: Samuel, Henrietta, Joseph, Emanuel John, Victor, Lucille, Flora, and Grover.<ref name="encyclopedia"/><ref>{{Cite book|last=Abrams|first=Jeanne E.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=svsUCgAAQBAJ|title=Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: A History in the American West|date=2006|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0-8147-0720-3|language=en}}</ref> They attended the Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco.<ref name="robertp"/>
He was a freemason, having joined in London and gone up the ranks in California.<ref name="robertp"/> Magnin lived at 1478–1482 Page Street, San Francisco, and his two daughters lived in the attached unit, the building was designed by Newsom and Newsom.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|last=Weinstein|first=Dave|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=unqUNeNaoVcC|title=Signature Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area|date=2006|publisher=Gibbs Smith|isbn=978-1-58685-751-6|location=|pages=11–18|language=en}}</ref>
==Death== He died on January 27, 1907, in San Francisco, California.<ref name="encyclopedia"/> He is buried at Hills of Eternity Memorial Park in Colma, California.
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