Samuel Alexander Scribner (1859 - 1941)

Born 18 Aug 1859 in Howe, Eldred Township, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, United States

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Died 8 Jul 1941 at age 81 in Bronxville, Westchester, New York, USA

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Biography

• 1 Circus & burlesque impresario. Story in a Brookville, Jefferson, PA newspaper at the time: SAM A. SCRIBNER, one of this nation’s most prominent leaders in the amusement world, succumbed in his home in Bronxville, N. Y., Tuesday evening, July 8, at eight o’clock following a lengthy illness. A native of the Brookville section Mr. Scribner was born August 18, 1859 near Howe, a son of the late Alexander S. and Cynthia (Chesebro) Scribner, and was one of this town’s most illustrious sons.

Starting in the amusement business when just a lad, Mr. Scribner rose through its varied phases from active management positions with many the prominent circuses of years ago, including Forepaugh & Sells, and through even the management of this own one-ring circus, in whose band he also played the alto horn. Many years ago he went to New York to work in several capacities and immediately saw the state of the burlesque business and instigated reforms which eventually culminated in his ownership and management of a string of 40 burlesque theatres and 40 traveling burlesque shows. Because of his familiarity with burlesque he was appointed national censor of that phase of the amusement field several years ago, thereby earning the title, “King of Burlesque.” Always interested in the welfare of his fellow man and particularly those in show business, Mr. Scribner took an active part in actor retirement and benefit organizations. He was a president of the Actors’ Fund Association, Inc., Treasurer of the Percy Williams Home for Actors at East Islip, The Burlesque Club, Actors’ Order of Friendship, Hot Air Club and the Winged Foot Golf Club, in New York. - - - He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Edward Call of Croton on Hudson, N. Y., two sons, Sam A., Jr., in the U. S. Navy, John Herbert Mack Scribner, at home and a grandson, Edward Call. James S. Canning, of this place, is a nephew of the deceased, and other local relatives are Alex S. Scribner and F. L. Scribner family. Mrs. Scribner dies June 22, 1940 and is buried here. Funeral services will be held from “The Little Church Around the Corner,” in New York City at noon tomorrow, Friday, July 11, Internment will be made in the Brookville Cemetery at 12:30 o’clock, Saturday, July 12. .—Brookville American [Brookville, PA] July 10, 1941 Pg. 6 Col. 3.

• 2Married Henrietta Cuerbo (aka Cooper), 4 Apr 1907 @ New York City. Variety reported he married "Etta Cooper" https://archive.org/stream/variety06-1907-04/variety06-1907-04_djvu.txt. Research of other news articles indicates that Sam wanted to hide the fact his wife's last name was Cuerbo.

• 3Father: Alexander St. John Scribner (b.1832); mother: Cynthia Cheseboro

• Fact: Residence (1860) Eldred Township, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, United States
• Fact: Residence (1870) Brookville, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, United States

Sources

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 17 April 2021, 18:39), entry for Samuel A. Scribner (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:9WNG-WHT ); contributed by various users.
• 1Wikipedia artical needs work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_A._Scribner . Also, see Brookville American [Brookville, PA] July 10, 1941 Pg. 6 Col. 3.

• 2 Bronxville Review-Press, 27 June 1940, page 2. https://news.hrvh.org/veridian/cgi-bin/senylrc?a=d&d=bronxvillereviewpressBRONXVILLE19400627.1.2 . Burried as "Etta Scribner" next to Sam in Brookville, PA. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98381430/etta-scribner

• 3 Various sources (wikipedia, newspapers, Jefferson County Historical publications. Also note burial location in Brookville cemetary in Jefferson county, PA. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98381384/sam-a-scribner

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99440325/alexander-st_john-scribner