Interior of Eichenbaum’s Store with Samuel Eichenbaum and Bertha Levion
Posted by JRW on June 2, 2013
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Samuel Eichenbaum migrated to the United States in 1870, having first arrived in Shawnee. In 1881 he moved to Corning where he clerked for two years and then went into the dry goods business for himself. After his death, his adopted daughter Bertha ran the store until 1976 when she sold it to Beatrice and James Dean who operated the store until 1986. Corning
Melissa Grannon said
Do you know what country he immigrated from?
Linda Toki-Walters said
The 1910 & 1920 Census states Austria.
Martin Levion said
The people in this photo are my Grandmother, Bertha Eichenbaum Levion and Grandfather, Marcel Levion – not Bertha’s adopted father (and uncle) Sam Eichenbaum – who founded the store where this picture was taken. My father, Leon Levion believes this photo is from the early 1920s.