Joseph Blumenthal (December 1, 1834 – March 2, 1901) was a Jewish German-American businessman, politician, and communal worker from New York.
[1] In 1853, Blumenthal moved to Mariposa County, California, where he lived for the next five years.
[2] As a young man, he was a member of the state militia, serving as a staff officer of the Third Cavalry Regiment of the New York National Guard.
[7] He served as head of the Bureau of Incumbrances for several years, and was the commissioner taxes and assessments from 1893 to 1895.
[3] He helped make the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York more prominent, was the first president of the Sanitary Aid Society,[9] served as president and director of Mount Zion Cemetery, and helped in the founding of another of Jewish charities.