Samuel S. Fleisher

Samuel Stuart Fleisher (November 27, 1871 – January 20, 1944) was a Jewish-American manufacturer, art patron, and philanthropist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

[1] His family were German immigrants who established a prosperous yarn and clothing manufacturing business.

[4] He soon became involved in communal life via his interest in philanthropy in general and in artistic endeavors in particular.

Interested in juvenile welfare, he was vice-president of the Juvenile Protective Association from 1909 to 1913, an executive committee member of the Philadelphia Vice Commission in 1913, a director of the Court Aid Society from 1913 to 1918, and vice-president of the Ellis College for Fatherless Girls from 1919 to 1926.

Active in Jewish communal life, he was a trustee of the Baron de Hirsch Fund from 1903 to 1932, chairman of the Baron De Hirsch Agricultural School at Woodbine, New Jersey, from 1908 to 1920, chairman of the Woodbine Community Center from 1926 to 1932, and a director of the Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum from 1903 to 1915 (after which he became an honorary director).