Herbert Fleishhacker son of Aaron Fleishhacker and Delia (Stern) Fleishhacker, was an American

United States

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 businessman, civic leader and philanthropist

Philanthropist

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. He built Fleishhacker Pool

Fleishhacker Pool

Fleishhacker Pool was a public saltwater swimming pool located in the southwest corner of San Francisco, California next to the zoo for 47 years. It was the largest swimming pool in the United States and it was said that it could be seen from space....

, the world's largest swimming pool, in 1924.

While serving as president of the San Francisco Parks Commission, he founded the Fleishhacker Zoo, later renamed the San Francisco Zoological Gardens

San Francisco Zoo

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. Fleishhacker was also president of the London and Paris National Bank and later the Anglo California National Bank. In November 1955, the Anglo California National Bank merged with the Crocker First National Bank

Crocker National Bank

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It is possible that in the mid-1920s he had his portrait painted by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury

Adolfo Müller-Ury

Adolfo Muller-Ury was a Swiss-born American portrait painter and impressionistic painter of roses and still life.-Heritage and early life in Switzerland:...

(1862-1947) who had established a new studio home in San Marino, California in 1925.