| Birth Name: | Philip Nettre Lilienthal |
| Birth Date: | 1850 |
| Death Date: | 1908 (age 58) |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Banker |
| Children: | Joseph L. Lilienthal Elsie Lilienthal Beer Phillip N. Lilienthal, Jr. Theodore Max Lilienthal |
| Parents: | Babette Nettre Lilienthal Max Lilienthal |
Philip Nettre Lilienthal (1850–1908) was an American banker and philanthropist. He served as a director of the California Title Insurance & Trust Company of San Francisco, the San Francisco Free Library, Union Iron Works, and was President of the Philharmonic Society. He co-founded the Russian Jewish Alliance with Rabbi Jacob Voorsanger which assisted Jews who had fled Russia for the United States.
Philip Nettre Lilienthal was born to a Jewish family in New York City in 1850, the son of Babette "Pepi" Nettre (born 1821) and Max Lilienthal, a leading Rabbi in Reform Judaism.[1] [2] [3] He was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. At the age of 14, he worked for Stix, Krause & Co. and at the age of 17, moved to New York City where he worked for James and Joseph Seligman at J. & W. Seligman & Co. In 1869, he was sent to San Francisco to run the Seligman Bank. In 1873, he co-founded the Anglo-Californian Bank with Ignatz Sheinhart. He went on to found several other banks: the Porterville Bank of Porterville, California; the Bank of South San Francisco, the Bank of Pleasanton, the Bank of Willits, and the Bank of Eureka.
Lilienthal married Isabella Seligman, daughter of Joseph Seligman; they had 4 children: Joseph L. Lilienthal, Elsie Lilienthal Beer (wife of Dr. Edwin Beer), Phillip N. Lilienthal, Jr. (married to Ruth Haas, daughter of Abraham Haas), and Theodore Max Lilienthal.[4] In 1908, Lilienthal died in an automobile accident. He was a member of Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco.