. History of the state of California and biographical record of Oakland and environs, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present. izens of California. ANDREW ISADORE KARMAN. While it is true that but a brief time has elapsedsince Mr. Karman came to Oakland, yet he hasalready established a position among the businessmen of the city and in his enterprise as proprie-tor of a tailor shop bids fair to accumulate acompetence. Andrew Isadore Karman is a na-tive of Hungary, born in 1872, and there grew tomanhood and received his educational training inthe public schools
. History of the state of California and biographical record of Oakland and environs, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present. izens of California. ANDREW ISADORE KARMAN. While it is true that but a brief time has elapsedsince Mr. Karman came to Oakland, yet he hasalready established a position among the businessmen of the city and in his enterprise as proprie-tor of a tailor shop bids fair to accumulate acompetence. Andrew Isadore Karman is a na-tive of Hungary, born in 1872, and there grew tomanhood and received his educational training inthe public schools. At the age of twenty-sevenyears he immigrated to America, locating firstin Canada and thence coming to the United Statesand in Seattle, Wash., setting himself to learnthe trade of tailor. After completing his ap-prenticeship he came to Oakland, Cal., and fornine months was in the employ of S. N. Wood,then went to San Francisco and opened a shopin which he employed fifty men. In 1905 Mr. Karman returned to Oakland andat No. 1521 Seventh street established an inde-pendent business in the tailoring line; later heextended his business and also opened a shop. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 619 at No. 1146 Adeline street, employing now al-together fifteen hands. He has also found timeto ally himself with fraternal organizations, hav-ing, in 1905, joined the Masonic order in Oak-land, in Alcatraz Lodge, also belongs to the In-dependent Order of Odd Fellows, the Foresters,Woodmen of the World, and others. He is amember of the First Hungarian Aid Society andtakes an active and helpful interest in his owncountrymen. He is an ardent supporter of Oak-lands interests along civic lines and belongs tothe Boosters Club. In Seattle, Wash., he marriedMiss Mollie Kahn and they now make theirhome in Oakland. WILLIAM SIMPSON. When indulging in a retrospect of the yearsthat have passed, the thoughts of this old pioneeroften revert to the year 1849, when as a youngman of twenty-one years he se
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