SAMUEL BIENSTOCK, RETIRED DRUGGIST AND FORMER TREASURER OF THE JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY, DIED LAST NIGHT AFTER A LONG ILLNESS AT HIS HOME, 43-33 46TH STREET, SUNNYSIDE, LONG ISLAND. HE WAS 63 YEARS OLD.
BORN IN ODESSA, RUSSIA, MR. BIENSTOCK CAME TO THE UNITED STATES MORE THAN 45 YEARS AGO. FOR MANY YEARS HE WAS IN THE RETAIL DRUG BUSINESS IN HARTFORD, CONN., WHERE HE LONG HELD THE POST OF SECRETARY OF THE HARTFORD RETAIL DRUGGISTS ASSOCIATION. AFTER HIS RETIREMENT, HE BECAME ASSOCIATED WITH THE JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY, ACTING AS TREASURER FROM 1924 TO 1927.
MR. BIENSTOCK WAS A MASON AND A MEMBER OF THE INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIDOW, SOPHIA; THREE DAUGHTERS, MRS. IDA LANDAU, WIFE OF THE FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR OF THE J.T.A., MRS. FREDA JOEL AND HARRIET; AND TWO SONS, NATHAN AND VICTOR M. BIENSTOCK, CHIEF OF THE J.T.A. EUROPEAN SERVICE, STATIONED IN LONDON.
BURIAL WAS AT MT. ZION CEMETERY TODAY, FOLLOWING SERVICES AT MR. BIENSTOCK’S LATE HOME.
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