Multimillionaire hotel and theater owner who got his start in Gloversville in 1917 when he negotiated a lease for the Hippodrome Theater. He once said that a film salesman he met on a train told him that Gloversville could use a theater operator. In 1920, he also purchased the Glove Theater in Gloversville.
Died of a brain tumor.
Began peddling with his Grandfather at the age of 4 in Lithuania and emigrated to the U. S. at age 12 with his Mother and younger brother.
Attended school in Jamestown and in 1914 made an unsuccessful attempt to operate a movie theater in Syracuse. He then briefly sold candy on trains and was a dress salesman before he took over the Hippodrome in Gloversville.
He also went back to selling candy & founded the chain of Mrs. Wiggins Candy Stores.
Parents: David Getzel & Anna Schine (per Ancestry dot com)
Wife: Hildegarde Feldman Schine, daughter of Morris & Martha Feldman, who lived in Johnstown in Censuses of 1910 & 1920. Morris was a Russian immigrant and Martha was from NY. Hildegarde and J. Myer married Aug. 30, 1925, in the Italian Room at the Hotel Utica in Utica, NY.
Sons: Gerard David and Charles Richard Schine (Gerard David Schine was prominent in the 1950s with Roy Cohn working for Joseph McCarthy's Senate Security Sub-Committee. He played a large role in the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954.)
Daughters: Mrs. Doris J. Maxwell of Wellesley, Mass. & Mrs. Lester (Renee) Crown of Chicago, Ill.
Brother: Louis W. Schine (died in Gloversville in 1956; FindAGrave # 96865709)
(Most info from Amsterdam Evening Recorder, May 10, 1971; also from Utica Daily Press; and also from Gloversville Leader Herald, May 10, 1971)
NOTE: His Social Security Death Record shows his birth as Feb. 29 while his World War I Draft Registration shows it as Feb. 28. Also, his World War I Draft Registration shows that he was born in Germany but his Obituary and other records list that he was born in Russia; more specifically in his Gloversville Obituary - Metau, Latvia.
Census records show that he emigrated to the U. S. in 1900.
The Schine Student Center at Syracuse University is named for J. Myer and his wife, Hildegarde.
Died of a brain tumor.
Began peddling with his Grandfather at the age of 4 in Lithuania and emigrated to the U. S. at age 12 with his Mother and younger brother.
Attended school in Jamestown and in 1914 made an unsuccessful attempt to operate a movie theater in Syracuse. He then briefly sold candy on trains and was a dress salesman before he took over the Hippodrome in Gloversville.
He also went back to selling candy & founded the chain of Mrs. Wiggins Candy Stores.
Parents: David Getzel & Anna Schine (per Ancestry dot com)
Wife: Hildegarde Feldman Schine, daughter of Morris & Martha Feldman, who lived in Johnstown in Censuses of 1910 & 1920. Morris was a Russian immigrant and Martha was from NY. Hildegarde and J. Myer married Aug. 30, 1925, in the Italian Room at the Hotel Utica in Utica, NY.
Sons: Gerard David and Charles Richard Schine (Gerard David Schine was prominent in the 1950s with Roy Cohn working for Joseph McCarthy's Senate Security Sub-Committee. He played a large role in the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954.)
Daughters: Mrs. Doris J. Maxwell of Wellesley, Mass. & Mrs. Lester (Renee) Crown of Chicago, Ill.
Brother: Louis W. Schine (died in Gloversville in 1956; FindAGrave # 96865709)
(Most info from Amsterdam Evening Recorder, May 10, 1971; also from Utica Daily Press; and also from Gloversville Leader Herald, May 10, 1971)
NOTE: His Social Security Death Record shows his birth as Feb. 29 while his World War I Draft Registration shows it as Feb. 28. Also, his World War I Draft Registration shows that he was born in Germany but his Obituary and other records list that he was born in Russia; more specifically in his Gloversville Obituary - Metau, Latvia.
Census records show that he emigrated to the U. S. in 1900.
The Schine Student Center at Syracuse University is named for J. Myer and his wife, Hildegarde.
Multimillionaire hotel and theater owner who got his start in Gloversville in 1917 when he negotiated a lease for the Hippodrome Theater. He once said that a film salesman he met on a train told him that Gloversville could use a theater operator. In 1920, he also purchased the Glove Theater in Gloversville.
Died of a brain tumor.
Began peddling with his Grandfather at the age of 4 in Lithuania and emigrated to the U. S. at age 12 with his Mother and younger brother.
Attended school in Jamestown and in 1914 made an unsuccessful attempt to operate a movie theater in Syracuse. He then briefly sold candy on trains and was a dress salesman before he took over the Hippodrome in Gloversville.
He also went back to selling candy & founded the chain of Mrs. Wiggins Candy Stores.
Parents: David Getzel & Anna Schine (per Ancestry dot com)
Wife: Hildegarde Feldman Schine, daughter of Morris & Martha Feldman, who lived in Johnstown in Censuses of 1910 & 1920. Morris was a Russian immigrant and Martha was from NY. Hildegarde and J. Myer married Aug. 30, 1925, in the Italian Room at the Hotel Utica in Utica, NY.
Sons: Gerard David and Charles Richard Schine (Gerard David Schine was prominent in the 1950s with Roy Cohn working for Joseph McCarthy's Senate Security Sub-Committee. He played a large role in the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954.)
Daughters: Mrs. Doris J. Maxwell of Wellesley, Mass. & Mrs. Lester (Renee) Crown of Chicago, Ill.
Brother: Louis W. Schine (died in Gloversville in 1956; FindAGrave # 96865709)
(Most info from Amsterdam Evening Recorder, May 10, 1971; also from Utica Daily Press; and also from Gloversville Leader Herald, May 10, 1971)
NOTE: His Social Security Death Record shows his birth as Feb. 29 while his World War I Draft Registration shows it as Feb. 28. Also, his World War I Draft Registration shows that he was born in Germany but his Obituary and other records list that he was born in Russia; more specifically in his Gloversville Obituary - Metau, Latvia.
Census records show that he emigrated to the U. S. in 1900.
The Schine Student Center at Syracuse University is named for J. Myer and his wife, Hildegarde.
Died of a brain tumor.
Began peddling with his Grandfather at the age of 4 in Lithuania and emigrated to the U. S. at age 12 with his Mother and younger brother.
Attended school in Jamestown and in 1914 made an unsuccessful attempt to operate a movie theater in Syracuse. He then briefly sold candy on trains and was a dress salesman before he took over the Hippodrome in Gloversville.
He also went back to selling candy & founded the chain of Mrs. Wiggins Candy Stores.
Parents: David Getzel & Anna Schine (per Ancestry dot com)
Wife: Hildegarde Feldman Schine, daughter of Morris & Martha Feldman, who lived in Johnstown in Censuses of 1910 & 1920. Morris was a Russian immigrant and Martha was from NY. Hildegarde and J. Myer married Aug. 30, 1925, in the Italian Room at the Hotel Utica in Utica, NY.
Sons: Gerard David and Charles Richard Schine (Gerard David Schine was prominent in the 1950s with Roy Cohn working for Joseph McCarthy's Senate Security Sub-Committee. He played a large role in the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954.)
Daughters: Mrs. Doris J. Maxwell of Wellesley, Mass. & Mrs. Lester (Renee) Crown of Chicago, Ill.
Brother: Louis W. Schine (died in Gloversville in 1956; FindAGrave # 96865709)
(Most info from Amsterdam Evening Recorder, May 10, 1971; also from Utica Daily Press; and also from Gloversville Leader Herald, May 10, 1971)
NOTE: His Social Security Death Record shows his birth as Feb. 29 while his World War I Draft Registration shows it as Feb. 28. Also, his World War I Draft Registration shows that he was born in Germany but his Obituary and other records list that he was born in Russia; more specifically in his Gloversville Obituary - Metau, Latvia.
Census records show that he emigrated to the U. S. in 1900.
The Schine Student Center at Syracuse University is named for J. Myer and his wife, Hildegarde.
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