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Indenture, Cosmas Damm to Jacob Breiling, San Francisco
SFH 543
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Title: Indenture, Cosmas Damm to Jacob Breiling, San Francisco
Dates: March 1, 1872
Collection Number: SFH 543
Creator/Collector:
Damm, Cosmas D., d. 1879
Extent: 1 folder
Repository:
San Francisco Public Library. San Francisco History Center
San Francisco, California 94102
Abstract: Deed for lot on Bush Street between Webster and Fillmore streets, San Francisco
Language of Material: English
The collection is open for research.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the City Archivist. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the San Francisco Public Library as the owner of the physical items.
Indenture, Cosmas Damm to Jacob Breiling, San Francisco. San Francisco Public Library. San Francisco History Center
Gift, 2018-54
Biography/Administrative History
Cosmas Damian Damm was born in Bavaria, emigrated to California and was naturalized in San Francisco in 1867. He worked as
an upholsterer in San Francisco and in Sacramento, and died in 1879. Jacob Breiling, also born in Bavaria, came to San Francisco
and operated a meat market with his brother John; Jacob died here in 1878. Breiling’s parcel was later owned by Rosalie Morris,
and the 1888 dwelling on it is numbered 2142-2144 Bush Street (2018).
Scope and Content of Collection
Indenture made March 1, 1872 between Cosmas Damm, grantor, and Jacob Breiling, grantee, to parcel in block 312, Western Addition.
Pasted to verso is notary’s certificate and seal, with county recorder’s statement written across it. A note in envelope
accompanying deed indicates that Captain M. V. Bennett may have donated the document to the de Young Museum in 1940.
Real property—California—San Francisco
Land titles—California—San Francisco
Land tenure—California—San Francisco
Deeds—California—San Francisco
Bavarians–California–San Francisco
Breiling, Jacob, d. 1878
Bennett, M. V.
Morris, Rosalie
San Francisco (Calif.)–History—19th century
San Francisco (Calif.)—History—Sources
Western Addition (San Francisco, Calif.)
Indentures