Max Blumberg

Max Blumberg (April 16, 1880 – November 9, 1938) was a Lithuania-born American businessman and philanthropist.

Blumberg was born to a Jewish family in Lithuania and immigrated to the United States when he was 14 settling in New York City.

[1] He worked as a millworker and later started his own business as a lumber wholesaler.

[1] Blumberg served as President of the Bensonhurst Sash and Door Company, the Globe Exchange Bank, the Globe Financial Corporation, and the Farmers Title Guarantee and Mortgage Company; he was Vice President of the Philippine Button Company.

[1][3][4] He was married to Lina Gurian (c. 1882–1966);[5] they had six children including George Blumberg (d. 1960), who served in the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate;[6][7] Jack Blumberg (1910–1970) who took over the family's philanthropic activities;[1][8] Elsie Blumberg Wolosoff who married homebuilder Leon Wolosoff;[9] and William Blumberg who founded KF Lumber and Supply in Queens, New York.