- Samuel Rubel
Samuel Rubel (1881-1949) was an immigrant from
Russia in 1904. In the 1920 U. S. Census his occupation was described as "Coal Miner & Ice Retailer." Rubel emigrated to America in 1904 fromRiga ,Latvia , at the age of 23. Rubel started his career selling coal and ice with a horse-drawn wagon in the tenements in the East New York section ofBrooklyn .Samuel Ruble married Dora Nachumowitz and the two had two daughters. Dora N. Rubel re-married in 1959 (to
Louis Daitch of theDaitch Supermarket chain).Rubel became the head of the
Pocono Mountain Ice Company based inHoboken, New Jersey , which became the leading ice company in thePennsylvania andNew Jersey area, buying up many of the smaller ice companies. Beginning in the 1930s with the advent ofrefrigeration , the harvesting of the ice from lakes became less and less profitable. Eventually, the ice companies folded, and Rubel switched his focus to other fields (such as brewing).Rubel was a big supporter of
The Boy Scouts of America . Just a few months before he died, Samuel Rubel donated a large tract of land located onLake Stillwater to the Bethlehem Area Council. The land, which is now known asCamp Minsi , is still in use today (one cove on the lake is named in his honor - "Rubel Cove".)Rubel was president of
Ebling Brewery at the time of his death and his net worth was estimated at $8,000,000.amuel Rubel's Obituary
:"From
the New York Times (April 30 ,1949 )
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
