Samuel SCHAFF ¹

   Other names for Samuel were Samuel SCAFF and Schaul SZEWCZYNSKI.

  Research Notes:

The petition for naturalization of Harry Schaff has Samuel's date of birth as Oct. 9, 1897.

The census of 1920 has his age as 24.

The census of 1930 has his place of birth as Nebraska. Apparently the family moved there for a while and became enamored of the place, finding it quite exotic and pretending to be from there. ^{2 3 5}

  Noted events in his life were:

• Embarkation, Aug 27, 1904, Hamburg. ¹ Samuel sailed on the SS Pennsylvania of the Hamburg-American Line.

• Immigration, Sep 7, 1904, Ellis Island, New York. ¹

• Residence, Sep 1904, 613 Gerat St., Philadelphia. ⁴ This may actually be Gerritt St.

• Residence, Apr 19, 1910, 311 Bainbridge St., Philadelphia. ⁶

• Residence, Jan 18, 1920, 319 Bainbridge St., Philadelphia. ³

• Residence, Apr 4, 1930, 2859 5th St., Philadelphia. ²

• Business, Apr 4, 1930, Philadelphia. ² Samuel was the proprietor of a retail dry goods store.

• Business: 2910 N. 5th St., Philadelphia. ¹

Samuel married Sarah NEEDLEMAN in 1920.^{1 2} (Sarah NEEDLEMAN was born on Jan 1, 1899 in Russia,^{2 7} died in Oct 1979 in Philadelphia ⁷ and was buried in Roosevelt Cem, Trevose, Penn ¹.)