banker Financier merchant philanthropist
Born to Mendel and Sarah (née Fischgrund) in Munkacs, in the Bereg County of the Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine), in 1885, Gottesman emigrated to the United States as a child and later joined his father"s paper-making business, M. Gottesman & Company, founded in 1886, in New York City.
He was generally known as Samuel Gottesman or Doctorate. Samuel Gottesman. He went on to transform the firm into Central National-Gottesman Incorporated. Long after Gottesman"s death, Central-National Gottesman became a multi-billion dollar corporation and the world"s largest pulp and paper merchant.
The firm grew through the acquisition of Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation, Perkins & Squire Company, Doctorate.F. Monroe and others
He was also a successful banker, organizing the Central National Bank in New York City. Today, through a series of mergers, the bank became amalgamated into JPMorgan Chase & Company
Further, he became the director of the Eastern Corporation and of Rayonier Incorporated.
Gottesman became well known for his generous philanthropy. His monetary gifts extended to the New York Public Library and numerous Jewish organizations and institutions, including the Doctorate. Samuel Gottesman Library at Yeshiva University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York City.
One of his highest-profile gifts was the donation of the so-called Dead Sea Scrolls to the State of Israel, where they are housed in the Shrine of the Book.
She likewise died of cancer, in 1991. Celeste also established the Pinewood Foundation in 1958, named after her father"s estate in Lawrence, Long Island, New New York
