Isaias W. Hellman Jr.

Isaias William Hellman (March 30, 1871 – May 10, 1920) His two sisters were Clara (née Hellman) Heller and Florence (née Hellman) Ehrman.

His paternal uncle was the banker and real estate investor Herman W. Hellman. His maternal aunt, Babetta Newgass, was the wife of Mayer Lehman, one of the three founding brothers of the investment bank Lehman Brothers. Among his large extended family were first cousins, Irving Lehman (the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals) and Herbert H. Lehman (a U.S. Senator and Governor of New York).

After being educated in the public schools of Los Angeles, he attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated in 1892. In 1895, he returned to San Francisco to become manager of the Union Trust Company.

Personal life On September 7, 1898, She was the daughter of Frederick Jacobi Sr. and Flora (née Brandenstein) Jacobi and a sister of composer Frederick Jacobi. Together, they were the parents of: who also became president of Wells Fargo, serving from 1943 to 1960; he married Dortha Elane. Florence Hellman (1904–1954), who married lawyer Lloyd William Dinkelspiel, head of the Jewish Welfare Board. Marco Francis Hellman (1906–1973), an investment banker who married Ruth Koshland, a daughter of wool merchant Jesse Koshland and granddaughter of Simon Koshland.

After a long illness, Hellman died on May 10, 1920, in San Francisco, California. His widow lived for another nearly forty years later before her death at her home in San Francisco in December 1959. who succeeded his uncle, Frederick L. Ehrman, as president of Lehman Brothers. He later co-founded Hellman & Friedman, and Hellman, Ferri Investment Associates (today known as Matrix Partners).