I find the language in this obituary quite frank, at least from our point of view in 2025. It does make sense that Leopold’s obituary would be “top of page” news in Orange County’s main newspaper in the 1920s; he and his brothers Simon and Al (originally Adolph) were well known in the late 1800s in the county, particularly Simon, who had murdered his business partner George Kallman (a fellow Jew) in 1875 over a business dispute. Simon was eventually aquitted; he claimed self defense and the jury agreed. Leopold was so well known as an early pioneer that his obituary, beside being printed in the Santa Ana Daily Register, also appeared in The Pasadena Post, the Los Angeles Daily Times (the original name of the Los Angeles Times), the Los Angeles Evening Express, and was even found posted in an abandoned building in the El Paso Mountains near Bakersfield! The Goldsmith brothers, Adolph, Simon, and Leopold, emigrated from Prussia (now Germany) in the 1850s with their parents, and were in a variety of businesses together all over Southern California, including a small village near modern day Corona in San Bernardino County, Orange, Tustin, Santa Ana, and Los Angeles. Leopold and Al ran the Great Western Clothing Company in LA, and Simon owned a shoe store in Santa Ana. Although Leopold never married and had no children, his descendents, through his brothers, continue to reside in Southern California.