DAVID S. SCHWARTZ.
  
DAVID S. SCHWARTZ.
David S. Schwartz, conducting the only exclusive men’s clothing and furnishing goods’ store in Green River, has built up a business of gratifying proportions and close investigation into his methods will show that he has ever followed the rules which govern strict and unswerving integrity. He was born in Slonim, Russia. March 28, 1884, a son of Samuel Schwartz, a native of that country, where he engaged in the men’s furnishing business. The father passed away when his son David was only about six months of age but Mrs. Sarah Schwartz is still living in Slonim.
David S. Schwartz is the youngest of a family of four children. He pursued his education in the schools of his native land to the age of thirteen years, when he crossed the Atlantic to America in 1897, making the long voyage alone. Resolute purpose dominated him, for he resolved to try his fortune in the new world and severed home ties in order to make the effort. He first settled in Chicago. Illinois, where he had relatives living, and there he attended night school in order to learn the English language and in his course there completed his education. His first position was in the shoe factory of Selz, Schwab & Company, shoe manufacturers of Chicago, who paid him a wage of a dollar and a quarter per day. He was employed there for only a brief period, however, after which he worked for various clothing merchants of the city, having previously gained a knowledge of the clothing trade through assisting in the business in his native country. In 1903 he emigrated to the west, establishing his home at Murray, Utah, where he was employed by the Leaders Stores Company, continuing with that firm until 1910, when he resigned his position and removed to Bingham Canyon, Utah. There he entered business on his own account, beginning in a comparatively small way but developing a growing and satisfactory business. On account of climatic conditions he was obliged to leave there and sold his business, removing to Ogden, where he again entered the service of the Leaders Stores Company. He continued at Ogden until January 7, 1913, and during that period was married. He removed with his wife in that year to Green River, arriving on the 12th of March, and on the same day he purchased the establishment which he now conducts. The business was originally owned by the firm of Caster & Wolf and since it has come into possession of Mr. Schwartz it has been greatly developed. He carries a much larger stock than was formerly handled and has a splendidly equipped store. He has continued in business without interruption and has been attended with excellent success in Green River for the past four years. He conducts the only exclusive men’s furnishing goods establishment of the city, handling a full line of men’s clothing, furnishings, shoes and haberdashery. The store is thoroughly modern in its equipment and in the line of goods carried, his stock representing the output of the leading manufacturers of the country.
On the 22d of September, 1912, Mr. Schwartz was united in marriage to Miss Rebecca C. Cohen, a native of Butte, Montana, and a representative of a well known family of Ogden, Utah, where her father was a leading merchant. By her marriage Mrs. Schwartz has become the mother of two children: Sherman William, born in Green River, March 21, 1915; and Annette Marian, born November 14, 1916.
Politically Mr. Schwartz is a democrat, voting with the party yet never seeking or desiring office as a reward for party fealty. He prefers to concentrate his energies upon his business affairs and has made steady progress through the intervening years. He arrived in America with a cash capital of but seven dollars and a half—a poor boy, thirteen years of age, a stranger in a strange land, the language of which was unfamiliar to him. He has based his success upon the substantial qualities of industry, perseverance and intelligent effort. He today buys most of his shoes from Selz, Schwab & Company, the firm with which he first worked on reaching Chicago. His establishment would be a credit to a city of much larger size than Green River, his store being attractive in its stock and in its appointments, while his business methods have been such as have won for him a constantly increasing patronage.