Howard Leiner: Samuel Federman (also shown as Featherman on your site) --- we're trying to identify his spouse(s) and children. There is a Federman family that became quite prominent in Ohio/Pennsylvania/NY in the department store business. The family is very large and while there are a ton of newspaper articles about the stores, I have not been able to locate birth records or marriage records for many of them. Several of the Federmans refer to a Samuel J Federman as their father. Others to a Jacob Federman. Others to Samuel I Federman.
Bottom line - trying to determine if the Rabbi on your site could be the father of some or all of these department store Federmans! One of whom is my great-great-great grandmother :)
Update: Based on everything I’ve seen, especially some tiny items in the newspaper - it puts Mr and Mrs CD Levy visiting her relative Benjamin Robert Federman in McKeesport. Not proof but I’m relatively certain that rabbi Samuel Jacob is the patriarch of this group of department store scions!
Pretty cool stuff. The Federman department stores ultimately combined and merged and bankrupted and emerged from bankruptcy into none other than Toys-r-us so that’s pretty damn cool!