Philip N. Lilienthal

Philip Nettre Lilienthal was born to a Jewish family in New York City in 1850, the son of Babette "Pepi" Nettre (born 1821) and Max Lilienthal, a leading Rabbi in Reform Judaism.^[2][1][3] He was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.^[1] 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.^[1] In 1869, he was sent to San Francisco to run the Seligman Bank.^[1] In 1873, he co-founded the Anglo-Californian Bank with Ignatz Sheinhart.^[1] 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.^[1]

Lilienthal married Isabella Seligman, daughter of Joseph Seligman; they had 4 children: Joseph L. Lilienthal, Elsie Lilienthal Beer (wife of Dr. Edwin Beer), Phillip N. Lilienthal, Jr. (married to Ruth Haas, daughter of Abraham Haas), and Theodore Max Lilienthal.^[1][4] In 1908, Lilienthal died in an automobile accident.^[1] He was a member of Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco.^[1]