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himself, and preferred to sew his buttons on personally. Bissinger and
Johnson were described as "friends and cronies" in a later profile of the former, and in one of Bissinger's obituaries, it was stated his greatest accomplishment was to have made the suit Andrew Johnson was wearing when taking the
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With a wave of other German Jewish immigrants, Bissinger left
Bavaria for the United States sometime in the early 1840s, settling in Kentucky. In 1849, he was married to Caroline "Sarah" Ochs (1821–1897). Not long after, Bissinger removed to Tennessee with his brother-in-law Julius Ochs, where he
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In the early 1890s, Samuel
Bissinger encountered various setbacks with regard to businesses he owned in Ozark, Alabama. He left many of his holdings in the hands of his children and moved with Sarah to New York City, perhaps to be closer to his daughter and nephew. Bissinger died in
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to Baruch
Benedig Bissinger (1783–1834) and Brendel Babette (Mayer) Bissinger (1790–1856). Samuel's mother, Brendel, came from a long line of important Jewish figures in Germany and Eastern Europe. Her grandfather, Simcha Bunem Rappaport (1734–1816), was a member of the
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Newspaper publisher Adolph Ochs was
Bissinger's nephew through his marriage to Caroline "Sarah" Ochs. Adolph Ochs would purchase the New York Times in 1896, saving it from insolvency and closure. By the 1920s,
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Bissinger (b.1850) Benjamin was a prosperous inventor. Many of his sewing machine patents were used by the leading manufacturers of the day.
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would close not long after its first issue was distributed in 1877. Destitute, Ochs stayed with
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was one of the most widely circulated newspapers in the world. Ochs first foray in publishing, however, was with a paper called the
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Presidential oath of office. Newspapers in
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