The Samilson/Angenitsky Family
View photographs and read the story of a trip to Simnas, Lithuania, home of the Samilsons/Angenitskys.
Portion of Angenitsky Samilson Family Tree
Harris Samilson, who changed his last name from Angenitsky, married Rebecca Simon.
They had seven daughters — Jane, Minnie, Massie (Rachel), Sarah, Anna, Flora, Belle (Bud)
and two sons, Mortimer and Jesse.
Standing, left to right: Jesse Samilson, Jane Bachrach, Rae Bonis, Sarah Bernstein, Mortimer Samilson
Seated, left to right: Minnie Rogers, Belle Stern, Rebecca Samilson, Anne Terrell, Flora Weinstein (West)
I think this was taken after 1907 because Harris is not in the picture.
Harris and Rebecca are buried in the Union Field cemetery in Queens, NY with daughters Jane, Rachel, Sarah and Flora.
Union Field cemetery, Queens, NY
Harris Samilson - under construction
New York Times 4 Jul 1900
New York Times 7 Jun 1901
New York Times 25 Nov 1905
Mortimer and Etta Leblang Samilson
Mortimer views Triangle Shirtwaist Fire from his office. New York Times, 26 Mar 1911.
Robert Leblang Samilson, Mortimer’s step-son.
Mortimer Samilson and Etta Leblang Rosenstein Marry, New York Times 28 Dec 1933
Mortimer Samilson, owner of 48th St Theatre New York Times, 1 Dec 1945
New York Times, 12 Jan 1945
Sarasota Herald Tribune 4 April 1973
Samilson’s Stores — Operating as Grand Leader, Stewarts and Samilson’s
Olean Evening Times 7 June 1920
Jamestown Evening Journal 25 Jan 1921
Samilson store managed by brother-in-law Samuel Stern opens in Oswego. Oswego Palladium-Times 22 Sept 1927
Olean Evening Times 29 Dec 1929 — Two Months After the Stock Market Crash
Jesse Samilson sells his wife, Goldie, the Jamestown store for $1. Jamestown Evening Journal 1935
Major Fire at Samilson’s in Jamestown, NY, 6 June 1940
Ogdensburg Journal 1 July 1943
Samilson’s at 118 S. Elm Street, Greensboro, North Carolina, ca. 1945
Samilson's in Ogdensburg, NY Ogdensburg Journal, 27 July 1956
Samilson’s Outlet Store Opens! Kingston Daily Freeman 17 Dec 1953
Union Problems, Rome Daily Sentinel 22 Feb 1957
Ad for Samilson’s in Oswego, no date.
Ogdensburg Journal, 11 July 1959
Ad for Jesse and Mortimer’s first retail store.
“One of New York’s leading manufacturers of women’s and children’s wearing apparel will open a branch store at 225 No. Union Street, Orleans.”
Olean Evening Times 28 May 1920.
Samilson’s Grand Leader is in the lower right corner.
Women’s Wear Daily 17 Sept 1921
Elmira Star Gazette 11 Sep 1925
Olean Evening Times 28 June 1927
Samuel Stern, Belle Samilson’s husband, became a manager of the Oswego Samilson’s in 1927. In 1929 his wife and two daughters were living in Woodmere, Long Island so he may have been happy to be transferred to the New York City Office. Women’s Wear Daily 27 Mar 1929
Lockport NY Union Sun and Journal 6 Oct 1933
Business Directory, 1933
Reopening of the Jamestown Store After the Fire, Jamestown Evening Journal 4 Sept 1941
Federal Income Tax Data Reports Shows Both Samilson Brothers had Income from Corporations of $22,000 ($469,000 in 2023 dollars), NY Sun 15 Jan 1937
Samilson’s Store Opens in Little Falls — 28th Samilson’s Store in New York State. Johnsville, NY Enterprise and News 31 May 1945
30 Year Anniversary of Olean Store — “the first of a group of forty similar stores established throughout the country by Mr. Samilson” Olean Times Herald 24 May 1950
Locations of Samilson stores, 1920 to 1959.
1952 Ad for Fulton Samilson’s.
Women’s Wear Daily 26 June 1959
Women’s Wear Daily, 3 Sept 1959
Belle (Bud) Samilson and Samuel Stern
Belle Samilson weds Samuel Stern in 1915
Samuel Stern leases house in Oswego, Oswego Palladium Times 8 Oct 1927
Eileen Stern, Woodmere High School, 1935
Samuel and Belle’s Jewish Marriage Certificate, 1915
Barbara Stern, Oswego High School, 1939
Oswego Palladium Times 5 May 1944
Palladium Times 16 Nov 1957
Barbara, Samuel, Belle and Eileen Stern in Oswego, NY, July 1940.
Belle and Samuel Stern celebrating.