caption death_date death_place birth_place nationality birth_date alt image article_title name occupation
samuel rubel april 29 , 1949 usa latvia latvian 1881 samuel rubel samuelrubel.jpg samuel rubel
 samuel rubel coal miner & ice retailer
samuel rubel

samuel rubel -lrb- 1881-1949 -rrb- was an american millionaire immigrant from russia .
in the 1920 u. s. census his occupation was described as `` coal miner & ice retailer . ''
rubel emigrated to america in 1904 from riga , latvia , at the age of 23 .
rubel started his career selling coal and ice with a horse-drawn wagon in the tenements in the east new york section of brooklyn .
samuel rubel married dora nachumowitz ; the two had two daughters .
rubel became the head of the pocono mountain ice company based in hoboken , new jersey , which became the leading ice company in the pennsylvania and new jersey area , buying up many of the smaller ice companies .
beginning in the 1930s with the advent of refrigeration , the harvesting of the ice from lakes became less and less profitable .
eventually , the ice companies folded , and rubel switched his focus to other fields -lrb- such as brewing -rrb- .
rubel died on april 29 , 1949 .
he was president of ebling brewery at the time of his death and his net worth was estimated at $ 8,000,000 .
rubel was a supporter of the boy scouts of america .
samuel rubel donated a large tract of land around stillwater lake in pocono summit , pa to the bethlehem area council ; the land was presented to the scouts on may 27 , 1949 .
the land , which is now known as camp minsi , is still in use by the boy scouts today .
