Samuel Schwarzwald Biography


	This biography appears on page 1269 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	SAMUEL SCHWARZWALD was born on February 16, 1848, in Prussia and 
is the son of Jacob and Fuerda (Kohn) Schwarzwald, natives of that 
country where their families lived for many generations. In 1857 the 
family emigrated to the United States and located in New York city, 
where the father became a successful dealer in horses. Here the son grew 
to the age of sixteen and was educated in the public schools. In 1864 he 
went to Augusta, Georgia, where he passed seventeen months working in a 
dry-goods store. He then returned to New York, and in June, 1867, again 
left the city for a distant point, going to St. Joseph, Missouri, by 
rail and from there up the Missouri to Fort Benton, Montana, whence he 
made his way overland to Helena. In that city he wrought at various 
occupations until 1869, then went to Cedar Creek, and until 1873 carried 
the mails between that place and Forest City. At the end of that period 
he returned to Helena, and during the next three years was a salesrman 
in the clothing store of Gans & Klein, one of the leading mercantile 
establishments of Montana's capital. In the summer of 1876 he came to 
the Black Hills, making the trip by boat from Fort Benton to Bismarck 
and from there overland to Deadwood, arriving at that place on August 
12. Here he began dealing in grain and produce and soon built up an 
extensive trade, handling all the grain and similar commodities brought 
into the Hills by trains. In the fall of 1877 he opened a new and 
second-hand furniture establishment, having bought the lot on which he 
is now doing business in 1876 and built a frame house on it for a store. 
Since 1879 he has devoted his time entirely to furniture, and in 1894 
erected the storehouse he now uses for the purpose, adding the adjoining 
building three years later. In addition to his mercantile enterprise he 
has always been interested in mining, dealing principally in stocks 
connected with the industry, making a success of that as he has of his 
other ventures, and occupying a leading position among the business men 
of the community. He is an active Republican in politics and has during 
the whole of his manhood been zealous in the service of his party; and 
he has been equally energetic in the matter of public improvements and 
the progress and development of every good undertaking for the 
advancement of his section and the comfort and convenience of its 
people. 

	On January 19, 1903, at Chadron, Nebraska, the subject was married 
to Mrs. Gussie (Lowentheal) Nathan, a native of Brooklyn, New York. He 
finds pleasure and relief from the cares of business in two of the 
fraternal orders being an esteemed member of the Elks and the Eagles.