 Two of the biggest shareholders included Mayer Lehman of Lehman Brothers ($150,000) and Levi Strauss ($120,000).Other shareholders included men Hellman had grown up with in Reckendorf who had become important businessmen in their own right, including Kalman, Abraham and William Haas, and David Walter.Hellman was president of the Nevada Bank of San Francisco from 1890 to 1898 and nationalized the bank under the title of The Nevada National Bank of San Francisco from 1898 to 1905.