Philip N. Lilienthal
Philip Nettre Lilienthal was an American banker and philanthropist. He served as a director of the California Title Insurance & Trust Company of San Francisco, the San Francisco Free Library, Union Iron Works, and was President of the Philharmonic Society. He co-founded the Russian Jewish Alliance with Rabbi Jacob Voorsanger which assisted Jews who had fled Russia for the United States.
Biography
Philip Nettre Lilienthal was born to a Jewish family in New York City in 1850, the son of Babette "Pepi" Nettre and Max Lilienthal, a leading Rabbi in Reform Judaism. He was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. At the age of 14, he worked for Stix, Krause & Co. and at the age of 17, moved to New York City where he worked for James and Joseph Seligman at J. & W. Seligman & Co. In 1869, he was sent to San Francisco to run the Seligman Bank. In 1873, he co-founded the Anglo-Californian Bank with Ignatz Sheinhart. He went on to found several other banks: the Porterville Bank of Porterville, California; the Bank of South San Francisco, the Bank of Pleasanton, the Bank of Willits, and the Bank of Eureka.Lilienthal married Isabella Seligman, daughter of Joseph Seligman; they had 4 children: Joseph L. Lilienthal, Elsie Lilienthal Beer, Phillip N. Lilienthal, Jr., and Theodore Max Lilienthal. In 1908, Lilienthal died in an automobile accident. He was a member of Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco.