BIO: Samuel LEVINE, Beaver County, PA
  
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  BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES.  This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches 
  of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  Buffalo, N.Y., 
  Chicago, Ill.: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899, pp. 282-283.
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  SAMUEL LEVINE, a gentleman who by means of the superior faculties with which
  he is endowed by nature, has worked his way from a lowly station in life to
  one of prominence in his community, is proprietor of the leading general
  store in Aliquippa, Hopewell township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania.
  
  Mr. Levine was born in Poland, Russia, in 1861, and got his education there
  in the public schools, after which he assisted his father, who was a
  commission merchant, until he was old enough to go into business for himself.
  He came to this country in 1886, landing in the city of New York with but
  twenty cents. Thrifty and ambitious, he immediately set to work, and what he
  has since acquired has been due exclusively to his own industrious efforts.
  It is a boast which he may well feel proud to make, that he has never worked
  for another, but has always been his own "boss." Remaining in New York City
  but two months, he went to Troy, N. Y., and purchased a horse and wagon, -
  becoming an itinerant merchant. He carried the thousand and one things for
  which there is a demand in the
  
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  country, and worked up a very successful business, at which he continued
  until he settled in Aliquippa, when that town was first started. He has a
  splendid business and the most complete line of merchandise carried by any
  dealer in the county. He purchased the two-story building which he now
  occupies, and has divided it into three departments. The left wing is a fully
  stocked shoe store in the front, and the rear is used as a ware room. In the
  rear of the main store is the grocery department, and in front, the dry goods
  department. He is a man of great enterprise, and has endeavored to equip his
  store with every article which his customers may demand, having a
  comprehensive line of dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes, hats and caps,
  hardware, house furnishings, notions, carpets, oil cloth, jewelry, tobacco
  and cigars, feed and seeds, millinery and gentlemen's furnishings, china and
  glassware, wall paper and tinware. He built his store seven years ago, and
  added the shoe store annex later. His efforts to please the people are being
  rewarded, as his patronage is steadily increasing, and he is rapidly earning
  for himself the title of the most progressive merchant in the borough.
  Besides this business, in which he employs five hands, he owns valuable
  building lots in Aliquippa. He has erected another two-story frame building
  adjoining the old one, - the first floor, 50x 20 feet, being used as a dry
  goods store, and the second floor, 58x24 feet, being devoted to the purposes
  of a public hall.
  
  In 1889, Mr. Levine and his wife, Rebecca, were married, and they have five
  children, two of whom are attending school. Fraternally, he is a member of
  the order of Odd Fellows. In politics, he is always ready to exercise his
  privilege as a citizen, but has never sought office.