1600 M Street, Fresno, CA
This property is currently being put to good use by the YWCA . Remeber the Liberty Theater? This was the Einstein raised at that location.
Before that, the Louis Einstein family built and lived in this house since its building in 1912. Louis Einstein died in 1914, but his widow lived there for the next 36 years. Louis Einstein as a prominent early merchant and banker. As an early banker of Fresno, he helped finaced several important projects, such as the area's first irrigaiton, gas stations, and street car ventures. He also helped form the free library in Fresno. It was finally bought by the YWCA in 1950.
As a note, there is an Einstein park near where I live,
From: Fresno County, CaliforniaBiographical Sketches~ Leading Citizens1933
Edwin M. Einstein is a native son of Fresno, has lived in this city
virtually all his life, and is now the president and general manager of
tin; Fresno Guarantee Building-Loan association, which he helped to
organize in 1920. During recent years Mr. Einstein has been especially
active in Fresno county chamber of commerce work, having served as
director for several years, and president during 1931 and 1932. In
1928-29, he served as president of the California Building-Loan league.
Edwin Moritz Einstein was born
October 28, 1890,
in the City of Fresno, at the old Einstein home on K street (now Van
Ness Avenue), near Tulare, where the Liberty theatre building was later
located. His father was Louis Einstein, pioneer merchant and banker of
the San Joaquin Valley, a native of Germany, who died in 1914.
Young Einstein attended the Fresno city schools, graduated from the
Fresno High school, and then obtained his bachelor’s degree in the
college of commerce from the University of California in 1912. In the
latter year, by invitation of President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the
University of California and of the U. S. Secretary of State, he served
as delegate representing the United States at the Third Congress of
American Students at Lima, Peru. Einstein’s college activities included
journalism, he being editor of the Daily Californian in his senior year;
and music—he was manager of the glee chub in his sophomore and junior
years and president of the club as a senior.
This was the time of the beginnings of motion pictures, in which he
became interested as the photographer for his class. He was business
manager for the glee club during a concert trip through the East
and-later to Europe. After graduation, he joined in forming a commercial
firm, at Berkeley, to take educational and commercial pictures, and in
the course of business adventured in South and. Central America.
Upon his father’s death, Mr. Einstein returned to Fresno, and shortly
after took over the enterprise his father had planned, for the
development of La Sierra tract, lying between Roosevelt, North H and
Belmont avenues. Beginning in 1915, he laid out streets and built and
sold homes. When the World war stopped home building, he went into the
tractor business, pioneering in the spread of machinery to speed up farm production during
the Great war.
Two years after the Fresno Guarantee Building-Loan association was
organized in 1920, Mr. Einstein took charge of its $34,000 assets. It
now has a total of $2,385,000. He became the president in 1928. In
1928-1929 he served as president of California Building-Loan league, and
is now a director of the Federal Home Loan bank of Los Angeles.
Mrs. Einstein was Gertrude Thayer Swift, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. P.
Swift. Her father was the active head of the Fresno Flume and Lumber
company, in the establishment of Shaver lake and the lumber mills of
that enterprise. Mr. and Mrs. Einstein have two children: Evelyn Thayer
and Lewis Swift Einstein. Mr. Einstein is a member of Fresno Lodge No.
247, F. and A. M., of the Sciots, the Scottish Rite and the Shrine. He
was president of the Fresno Lions club in 1925-26. He is also a member
of the Sunnyside Country club.
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