[2] Rogosin was born to a Lithuanian Jewish family of Samuel Eliezer and Hanna in Valozhyn, then part of the Russian Empire (now in Belarus).

Samuel Rogosin founded a small textile mill in Brooklyn in 1895 and was joined by his wife and four children a year later.

[3] In 1963 Rogosin sold his shares in the Beaunit Corp.. At that time the company employed about 10,000 employees with an annual revenue of 150 million dollars.

[2] In 1966 Rogosin donated $1 million to the establishment of a Center for Jewish Ethics at Yeshiva University in New York [3] He died in Allenhurst, New Jersey.

[4] [5][6] Convinced by his son Lionel Rogosin to support the new State of Israel, he participated to the foundation of Ashdod in particular with a rayon factory and schools.