Thanks Mr. Berger for the Wiki Link, I see that Rabbo Aron J. Mesing replaced Rabbi Streisand in the Bies Yiisroel Shul in SF.

Rabbi Messing was a famous Rav here in the US serving in Chicgao and San Francisco, where he passed away in 1909.

Reb Nachum’s Yahrtzeit is next Friday

Baruch Amsel (Streisand) 1760 53 Street Lower Level Brooklyn, NY 11204

“[CONGREGATION] BETH MENACHIM STREISAND, 335-337 Minna.
Founded 1860. Cantor, H. Samuelson, 84 Harriett.
President, A. M. Jacobs; Vice-President, A. Shenson;
Treasurer, A. Sugarman; Secretary, S. J. Levy, 6 Adair.
Trustees: J. Simon, S. Axelrod, S. Glaser, J. Davis, S.
Altfield, S. Cieglar, J. Danielowitz. Members, 60. Congregation
meets first Sunday of the month. Services:
Daily, morning and evening. Auxiliary Society: Ladies’
Auxiliary.”

I was wondering if this was named after Rabbi Streisand, and when.

See:
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn94052989/1891-10-12/ed-1/seq-1/;words=Streisand

It appears from a Tchuvah (Talmudic response) found in Shu”t Mahar”i Hacohen, authored by the great Rabbi Israel Rappaport Chief Rabbi of Torno, where the Rav writes a response to Rav Striesand while he was still with Shari Tzedek in NY.

The titles and compliments to the then NY Rabbi Streisand are very impressive, but most importantly it appears that it was a response on his Sefer mentioned above named ‘L’lamed To’im Binah’, the support Rav rappaport gives him on his ongoing battle against Reform Judaism which was a big challenge those days in the US, just shows how instrumental he was here that it was heard back in Galicia and Eastern Europe.

It is fare to say that it is Rav Striesand and the other Orthodox Rabbis, to whom we should be thankful to this date laying the grounds and setting the stage for uncompromised Orthodoxy in the fashion of our fathers and forefathers.

P.S. two comments on what is written above:
1) In the Chronological Listing of the Linage to Rabbi Akiva Eger, his Grandfather-in-law is named “Rav Avraham Brawitch Eger” the word Brawitch is a mistake, his name was Rav Avrohom Eiger he was Chief Rabbi in a town named “Rawitch”, he was the oldest of 19 children and is buried alongside his father in Posen.
2) The fact that Rav Striesand was a disciple of his G-Grandfather-in-law Rav Akive Eger, is somewhat challenging since he was only born 1839-5579 and RAE was Niftar 19 years later 1858-5598, perhaps it was only for a short period of time.

The Topic in Yiddish-world:
http://www.yiddishworld.com/forum/index.php?f=31&t=8821&rb_v=viewtopic
The response in Mahri Hacohen on Hebrew Books.
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=252&st=&pgnum=53&hilite

Text Of Tombstone
Note: parentheses are not part of the tombstone text.

Here Lies
Rabbi Nachum
Streisand
Born
The town of (literally: holy congregation of)
(Not sure) Grodzisk or Gorczyn (both are part of Poznan, Poland)
Shevat, 5579 (1819)
Died
—–Crack In Stone———
San Francisco
At night 17th of the month of Tevet
5639 (1879)

San Francisco – When the city dug up its graveyards earlier this century, no one was supposed to stay behind.
But a glaring oversight surfaced this summer during renovation and expansion at the Palace of the Legion of Honor which was once the Golden Gate Cemetery.

About 300 corpses from the Gold Rush era – two of them still clutching rosaries, others wearing dentures and Levis – were unearthed from what appears to be an old pauper’s graveyard. Some experts say another 11,000 bodies might lie underneath the museum grounds.

“I’m not aware that any of them were [ex-humed],” says College of San Mateo history professor Michael Svanevik: The city simply knocked down all the monuments in 1909 and put in a golf course. The museum was added in 1924.
Archeologist Miley Holman, whose firm handling the excavations says the discovery is like “looking into a time capsule” of San Francisco history – a very strange time capsule.
Among the finds are a man who had a third arm buried with him, several medical-school cadavers and two coffins containing remnants of denim with rivets stamped Levi. The latter discovery, Holman says, has drawn a “flurry of interest” from San Francisco-based Levi Strauss & Co.
Someone also left his or her heart in San Francisco – in a tiny box that at first appeared to hold some sort of tree root, Holman says.
Most coffins, however, simply contain elderly men – believed to have been buried between 1870 and 1900 – wrapped in shrouds.
“These are the people who probably built San Francisco,” he says. “It’s an incredibly valuable [find].”
But the director of the Palace of Legion of Honor museum, which is paying steep surcharges for delays caused by the discovery, seems less excited: “[It's] interesting, but not exactly King Tut’s tomb,” Harry Parker told a San Francisco newspaper.
For now, the remains are at the coroner’s office, which by law must examine the bones, rebury them and attempt to notify next of kin.

1. Beth Olam on Point Lobos Avenue

2. Home Of Peace on Eighteenth and Nineteenth between Dolores and Church Streets

3. Sherith Israel – part of Home Of Peace.

The complicating issue is that these and all other “in town” cemeteries were moved during the early 1900’s.

STRISANT – in this city, January 11, Ralbie Strisant, a native of Germany, aged 60 years.

The Daily Alta California was among the first newspapers in San Francisco.