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Isaac Lankershim
Born	April 08, 1818 Nuremberg, Bavaria
Died	April 10, 1882
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Landowner Real estate developer
Spouse	Annis Lydia Moore
Children	James Boon Lankershim Susanna Lankershim
Relatives	Isaac Newton Van Nuys (son-in-law)

Isaac Lankershim (1818–1882) was a German-born American landowner and pioneer in California. He was the owner of 60,000 acres in Los Angeles County, California.

Early life

Career

Lankershim settled in St. Louis, Missouri and worked in the grain and livestock shipping business.

In 1854, Lankershim moved west to the Napa Valley in California. A year later, in 1855, he sowed and harvested 1,000 acres of wheat in Solano County, California. Shortly after, he expanded to over 14,000 acres near Fresno, California. In 1868, he purchased a bigger ranch in San Diego, California and grew wheat. In 1860, the rest of his family moved from St. Louis to California, and he established an office in San Francisco, California.

In the late 1860s, Lankershim moved to Los Angeles, California, where he became associated with a businessman named Harris Newmark. In 1869, Isaac purchased 60,000 acres of the San Fernando Valley from Pio Pico for US$115,000 together with other businessmen from San Francisco, known as the San Fernando Valley Farm Homestead Association. These acres included what is now Woodland Hills, Tarzana, Encino, Sherman Oaks, Van Nuys and North Hollywood. By 1873, they raised 40,000 sheep on the ranch. When wool prices fell, they grew wheat instead. To take the wheat from the valley to Santa Monica, California, he built a wagon path now known as Interstate 405. In 1876, he turned it into a toll road.

With his son-in-law, Isaac Newton Van Nuys, Lankershim started the Los Angeles Farming and Milling Co, and they took over full ownership of the San Fernando Valley Ranch Company. They also established the Lankershim Ranch Land & Water Co., a 12,000-acre real estate development in what is now known as North Hollywood, Los Angeles.

Personal life, death and legacy

Lankershim married Annis Lydia Moore (1818–1901), an English immigrant in 1842. He relinquished his Jewish faith and converted to the Baptist faith. They had a son, James Boon Lankershim (1850–1931), and a daughter, Susanna Lankershim, who married Isaac Newton Van Nuys (1836–1912). He died on April 10, 1882.

Lankershim Boulevard in Los Angeles is named for the Lankershim family.

References

1. ^ Cite error: The named reference jewishmuseum was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
2. "Lankershim's renewed vitality in areas like the NoHo Arts District reflects mass transit's ascent" (22 Dec 2012) Los Angeles Times
3. ^ Cecilia Rasmussen, "A possible romance led to lawsuit, death" (Dec. 2, 2007) The Los Angeles Times
4. ^ Joann Deutch, "The Tale Of Notable Dead Lankershim" (April 25, 2009) Canyon News
5. ^ Cite error: The named reference findagrave was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

• California pioneers
• Businesspeople from Los Angeles
• Land owners from California
• 1818 births
• 1882 deaths
• History of the San Fernando Valley
• People in 19th-century California
• German emigrants to the United States
• People from Nuremberg
• Burials at Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles
• 19th century in Los Angeles
• Converts to Protestantism from Judaism
• American people of German-Jewish descent