[3] By 1858, they moved to San Francisco, California, where he studied Jewish theology and taught Hebrew.

[3] After completing his education, Edelman was invited to move to Los Angeles to serve as the rabbi of its first Jewish, founded by Joseph Newmark.

[4] He married Hannah Pessah Cohn in Warsaw in 1851, the year they immigrated to the United States.

[3] They had four sons, Benjamin, Abram M., Henry W. and David W., and two daughters, Rachel and Matilda.

[5] Another son, David W. Edelman, became a doctor and later served as chief of staff at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, later known as the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.