Abraham Levi

A. Levi and Company, Bankers, in 1875 became the largest state-chartered bank in Texas; Levi served as president of the Victoria Jewish congregation for a quarter of a century. He also financed the area's first electrical generator and ice plants. He was elected an alderman in 1857 for a year and served again from 1867 until June 1869.

Possibly the first Jew to settle in Victoria – and easily the most prolific

“Perhaps there is more profound sorrow in the city today than has ever been recorded in the annals of Victoria. Yesterday morning there was called from this ‘midst a man who was beloved by everybody who had been enriched by his acquaintance, a man who it will be difficult to replace in our list of good citizens…His name is Abraham Levi. Not only do our people mourn his loss for his death has cast a gloom o’er entire Southwest Texas.”