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Elias David Sassoon

以利亚·大卫·沙逊Yǐlìyà Dàwèi Shāxùn · 1820–1880

Second son of David Sassoon (1820–1880); opened the family's China business in 1844–45 and founded E. D. Sassoon & Co., 'New Sassoon'.

Elias David Sassoon (以利亚·大卫·沙逊, Yǐlìyà Dàwèi Shāxùn) was born in Baghdad in 1820, the second son of David Sassoon. He reached Canton in 1844 and moved to Shanghai the following year, where Maisie Meyer says he began the settlement of Baghdadi Jews. After quarrels with his brothers he left David Sassoon & Co. and founded E. D. Sassoon & Co., the firm known in Shanghai as New Sassoon, in 1867 according to Wikipedia and in 1872 according to Sixth Tone. He died in Galle, Ceylon, in 1880. In 1878 he founded the Chinchpokli Jewish cemetery in Bombay in memory of his son Joseph, who had died in Shanghai in 1868.

Part of: The Sassoon family沙逊家族

Timeline

  1. 1820Born in Baghdad1
  2. 1844Reaches Canton to look for trade1
  3. 1845Moves to Shanghai, according to Wikipedia1
  4. 1867Founds E. D. Sassoon & Co. (1872 in some accounts)1
  5. 1880Dies in Galle, Ceylon1

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  1. 1.Elias David Sassoon (English Wikipedia) (Elias David Sassoon), Wikipedia — infobox, Early life and China sections; Career section; Career and Philanthropy sectionswikipedia
  2. 2.Baghdadi Jews in Early Shanghai (Baghdadi Jews in Early Shanghai), Maisie J. Meyer, Iraqi Jewish Association of Ontario (ijao.ca), 2009 — opening sectionarticle
  3. 3.From Baghdad to the Bund: The Family That Built Shanghai (From Baghdad to the Bund: The Family That Built Shanghai), Huang Wei (translated by David Ball), Sixth Tone, 2022 — section on Old and New Sassoonarticle
  4. 4.Dictionary of Foreign Firms in China, entry Old Sassoon / New Sassoon (as transcribed in the MAD Space database; seen only as a search-result snippet) (外国在华商行辞典 条目：老沙逊/新沙逊（MAD Space 广告商数据库转录）), MAD Space database, citing 四川人民出版社 1995, 1995 — entry text, as seen in a search snippetwebsite