2023-03 HCA Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/8/2023
Two receipts, both 1885, are stamped "Received, Cochise County Bank TOMBSTONE A.T." and addressed to A(lbert) Springer, cashier of the Cochise County Bank. .. plus, 1884 receipt for WJ Ross & Co. Oro Blanko, A.T. Key figures in the banking history of Tucson and Tombstone, Barron and Lionel Jacobs initially began their financial careers as merchants and suppliers. In 1867 they partnered with their father, Mark Israel Jacobs, to expand the family's mercantile business, the Mark I. Jacobs Company, from San Bernardino to Tucson. Mark Jacobs was a Polish-born Jew who worked as a men's clothing retailer in England before moving his family to California, settling first in San Diego in the 1850s and later in San Bernardino and San Francisco. Lionel (1841-1922) and Barron (1843-1936) were his two oldest sons and eventually became the patriarchs of the Barron family. In 1880 Barron and Lionel Jacobs expanded their business by opening the Agency Pima County Bank in Tombstone (they changed the name of this institution to the Cochise County Bank in 1881).
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