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American businessman

Abraham Haas (1847 – August 8, 1921) was an American businessman, co-founder of Hellman, Haas & Co.

(later Haas, Baruch & Co., which ultimately merged with Smart & Final), and patriarch of the Haas family, the primary shareholders of Levi Strauss & Co.

Biography

Haas was born to a Jewish family^[1] in Reckendorf, Kingdom of Bavaria in 1847^[2] and immigrated to Portland, Oregon at the age of 16 where he worked at a grocery store founded by his cousins, Charles, Samuel, and Kalman Haas.^[3][4][5] He then moved to Los Angeles^[6] where he co-founded the retail drug and grocery store, Hellman, Haas & Co. with his brother, Jacob Haas, and partners, Herman W.

Hellman (brother of banker Isaias W. Hellman) and Bernard Cohn (later the Mayor of Los Angeles).^[6] Using his profits, he founded the first flour milling and cold storage businesses in Los Angeles, the