Isaias W. Hellman Jr.

Isaias William Hellman (March 30, 1871 – May 10, 1920) was an American banker who served as president of the Union Trust Company and, briefly, of Wells Fargo Bank shortly before his death. Early life Hellman, who went by Marco, was born on March 30, 1871, in Los Angeles, California. He was the only son of Esther (née Newgass) Hellman (1851–1908) and Isaias W. Hellman, who had been born in Reckendorf in the Kingdom of Bavaria and emigrated to California in 1859. 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.