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Subject Source: Library of Congress Name Authority File

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Oral History Interview with Sam Flax, 1976 November 3

 Item
Identifier: B098.01.0001.00005
Abstract "Sam Flax recounts his early years of growing up in Russia, then later moving to the United States, first to New York City and then to Colorado. He details the jobs he held in New York and later in Cripple Creek and Victor, Colo. He describes his experiences of raising a family in Denver and his real estate ventures.Sam Flax was born in Russia in 1887 and spent his early years there before immigrating to the United States. He lived in New York and later moved to Colorado,...
Dates: 1976 November 3

Sam Flax, circa 1979

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Identifier: B111.03.0003.0015
Abstract Sam [Afsey] Flax (1887-1979, SSI) was born in Kovna, Russia to a large family. He originally intended to study at a local yeshiva, but had to leave for America in 1905 due to Czarist persecution. Flax spent eleven months in New York before following his sweetheart Bertha and her family to Cripple Creek, Colorado. Sam and Bertha were married in Cripple Creek on August 1, 1909. They went back to New York for a brief period, but after finding little success, returned west to Denver, Colorado,...
Dates: circa 1979