Harris Newmark

Biography

Harris Newmark (1834–1916) was a pioneering merchant and civic leader whose entrepreneurial zeal helped shape the emerging society of Los Angeles. He arrived with a vision for collaboration, fostering commerce while also championing schools, libraries, and cultural institutions that would serve generations to come.

An enthusiastic chronicler of his adopted home, he later recorded decades of experiences in Sixty Years in Southern California, leaving a thoughtful account of the struggles and triumphs that built the region he loved.