Leo Goldschmidt
Tucson
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913

Leo Goldschmidt is president of the Eagle Flour Milling 
Company of Tucson and has been connected with various 
other business concerns that have contributed to the 
material development and upbuilding of the state.  He 
as born in Hamburg, Germany, September 15, 1852, a son 
of Samuel H. and Frederika (Lichtenhein) Goldschmidt.  
The father was engaged in the banking business as manager 
of the Hamburg branch of the Copenhagen Bank but during 
the financial crisis of 1857 the bank failed after which 
he entered into active connection with manufacturing 
interests in Hamburg.  He passed away in 1884 at the 
age of eighty four years while his wife died in 1878 at 
the age of sixty four years.  In their family were four 
sons and four daughters of whom seven are living and all 
came to America.  Gertrude the eldest, is the widow of 
William Florsheim and is now making her home with her 
brother Leo in Tucson.  Matilda became the wife of Aaron 
Zeckendorf, a pioneer resident of Tucson and founder of 
the firm of L. Zeckendorf and Company.  Mr. Zeckendorf 
died in Sante Fe New Mexico since which time his widow 
has returned to Hamburg Germany where she now makes her 
home.  Henry S. is a practicing attorney of Chicago.  
Eva is the widow of J.S. Mansfield, who conducted the 
pioneer news depot of Tucson in which city she is still 
living.  Adolf who for several years was associated with 
his brother Leo in business died in the year 1899.  Leo 
is the next of the family.  Helen became the wife of M. 
Leventhal and resides in Los Angeles in California.  
Alfred J. completes the family.

Leo Goldschmidt spent his youthful days in Hamburg 
Germany and completed his education in the high school 
of that city.  He was eighteen when attracted by the 
opportunities of the new world, he crossed the Atlantic 
and made his way directly to Sante Fe New Mexico where 
he was connected with the mercantile house of Solomon 
Spiegelberg until 1878 when he removed to Tucson.  In 
the meantime he had carefully saved his earnings until 
his economy and industry had enabled him to carry out 
his cherished plan of embarking in business on his own 
account and following his removal to Tucson he opened a 
furniture store, which he successfully conducted for 
ten years, making it one of the important mercantile 
enterprises of the city.  On the expiration of that 
period he organized the Eagle Flour Milling Company 
of which he is still the president.  He was practically 
the pioneer in this line of work in southern Arizona 
for he erected the first modern flour mill in Tucson.  
He is also a director of the Consolidated National 
Bank of Tucson and has been connected with various 
other financial and industrial enterprises, now being 
president of the Gila Valley Milling Company at Safford.




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