b'Jews continued from page 19pillars of the Tucson community, involved in civic and community affairs. Staying true to family and tradition the brothers married Jewish women, with Barron quickly raising a family, Lionel, enjoying the bachelor life with occasional trips to San Francisco chose to marry later in life. Their Pima County Bank was the "bank" for Tucson for many years to come. They helped bring a water system to serve the arid land of Tucson and its environs and were active in the push to make Arizona a state, all the while staying true to their Judaic roots and culture while serving others. They may not have been as famous as the Goldwater brothers - but the Jacobs brothers and their father Mark too left their mark on the history of Southern Arizona.OTHER PROMINENT JEWS OF THE EARLY ARIZONA TERRITORYAt least one Jewish family, and possibly two others, though their antecedents are vague, had Arizona The Jecobs\' Residence in Tucson territorial towns named for them.Jewish Museum of the American West The first, Isadore and Anna Solomon, came merchants were community builders, and they knewfrom Poland, and after a brief stay in Towanda, almost everyone (Ibid., pp. 46-47). Pennsylvania where they had established a livery business, the couple and their three children, The outgoing Lionel, so well-liked in the Tucsonventuring westward sometime in 1876, taking community was urged to run for public office, andthe train first to New Mexico, then venturing by his election to the Pima County Board of Supervisorsstage to Clifton, Arizona. Like the Jacobs, Isadore came at a time (1871) where a horrific massacreSolomon became skilled in banking matters, and then of peaceful Apache who had accepted reservationterritorial governor John Fremont, yes, the famed life took place at nearby Camp Grant. Almostexplorer and soldier, named Solomon, the County 150 unarmed Apache women and children wereTreasurer of Graham County. There, Isadore and slaughtered in what became Arizona\'s unsavoryAnna were instrumental in establishing the town equivalent of the Sand Creek Massacre of peacefulwhich not only would become the Graham County Cheyenne in Colorado almost 7 years earlier. BecauseSeat for the next three and a half decades, but would of Apache depredations committed by more warlikealso, bear their name - Solomonville.elements of the tribe, many residents of Tucson and members of the State Legislature approved theThe circumstances of two more possible Jewish massacre - in fact, the perpetrators who stood trialpioneers of Arizona with cities named after them were acquitted, much to the outrage of those in theare a bit murkier, even more so as both men were East - but Mark Jacobs was not one of them. He didbaptized into the Lutheran Faith and if their ancestors not approve of the massacre - perhaps that Jewishindeed were Jews, well, they weren\'t raised as such tradition of social justice, especially for the innocentnor practiced the faith.- had stuck with him, but he also did not speak out against the massacre, perhaps knowing if he did heHerman Ehrenberg, the first of the two, was born would lose the goodwill of many if not most of theinto a family who very well may have been Jewish community. He would openly refuse to join in the crybut chose, possibly for advancement or due to anti-for Indian blood, innocent or otherwise, but that wAntisemitism, chose to be Lutheran*; a close friend ofn yas about as far as he would go. Perhaps that was Big Mike and Joe Goldwater, had arrived in ArizonaoT Pthe reason he chose to do just one term of office in in the late 1840s with a bit of notoriety, for earlier onehthe territorial legislature - preferring to better hisin his life Hermann Ehrenberg had been a soldier in town instead. the Texas Revolutionary Army, serving under Colonel James Fannin at the town of Goliad. Fannin, as history2nd Hand StoreLionel and Barron had noticed something missinghas noted, dithered in deciding whether to go to the in their day-to-day dealings with the miners, theaid of the Alamo or stay in what he initially thought cowboys, the Mexicans, the soldiers, and the generalwas a secure fortification - Goliad. When Fannin aWe Collect & Deliver residents of Tucson. The town needed a place whereWest Point graduate who had forgotten his training,Your Merchandisethe citizens could put their money in a secure place,finally decided to evacuate Goliad, it was too late. quite simply, a bank. So within a few years theMexican cavalry surrounded the men and after a briefFREE LOCAL DELIVERY AVAILABLEbrothers, now quite wealthy and still quite prosperousbut bloody fight on Coleto (also known as Colenso)662 W. Wickenburg Way despite a few business failures, chose to make theCreek, chose to surrender even with the knowledgeWickenburgOpen MondaySaturdaytransition from frontier merchants to investors andthat Santa Anna showed no mercy to those whomthepony2ndhandstore.combankers - they chose what they called the "moneyhe considered to be traitors to Mexico. A prisoner, game."Studying banking matters, they decided toEhrenberg was approached by Mexican officers and928-231-2730928-232-2019establish a bank, the first real, and for a time the onlytold that if he renounced his allegiance to Texas, he,We Carry Quality 2nd Hand bank of Tucson, the Pima County Bank, establishedas a German citizen, would be allowed to join the& New Merchandiseon January 1, 1879, and like their mercantileMexican Army. Not aware of what would be the fate ofYour Home Furniture Supplies Storeendeavor, it was an almost instant success, the peoplethe majority of those whom he served with, EhrenbergSpecializing in Appliancesof Tucson trusting the Jacobs so that they would notrefused. Thus, on the morning of Easter Sunday 1836, ever consider placing their savings into another bank. Ehrenberg and his unarmed comrades were marchedJane and Peter Kibbleout of Goliad on the pretext they would be boardingpony2ndhandstore@outlook.com For the rest of their lives which lasted well into theships to take them to New Orleans, but instead, as they 20th Century, the brothers Lionel and Barron werepassed between two bluffs, they encountered Mexican continued on page 23ArizonaRealCountry.com August 2023 21'