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The Israelite Benevolent Society
- Focus on Individuals
Members of the Israelite
Benevolent Society were actively involved in the Chambersburg community.
We have no photographs
of them.
An individual profile is available on one of Chambersburg's
best-known Jewish citizens, who was a member of the Israelite Benevolent
Society. The History of Franklin County, published
in 1887 provides the source material for the following profile. The
following profile is enlightening, as it concerns the very same Stine family
that took the responsibility for maintaining the Old Jewish Cemetery through
the early part of the twentieth century.
ISAAC STINE, wholesale and retail grocer, Chambersburg, was born in
Hanover, York Co., Penn., April 4, 1847, youngest son of Alexander and
Esther Stine. The father was born in Germany in1805, and came to America
in about1840, first locating at Hanover, York County, where he remained until
1847, when he came to Chambersburg and opened a grocery store on Second
Street, which he carried on until his death in 1868, having been a successful busi-
nesseman. He reared to manhood and womanhood a family of five children, of
whom Isaac is the sole survivor. The widow still lives at the age of eighty-
four years, vigorous in mind and body. Our subject received a common-school
education, and passed his youth in his father's store. On the death of the lat-
ter, he assumed charge of the business, which had been removed to South Main
Street. Soon after his removal his stock was totally destroyed by fire, and he returned to
second Street and continued his business for five years. About 1870 he again
located at No.147 South Main Street, and from there, in1880, he removed to his present location, adding a wholesale department to the retail store, which latter is now at No. 42 South Main Street,
the wholesale department being carried on at the corner of Main and Washing-
ton Streets. He has also two warehouses indifferent parts of the borough,
employs two commercial travelers, and does an extensive business. Mr. Stine is a
Mason and member of the I.O.O.F and K. of P.; in politics a democrat.
He and his family are members of the Hebrew Church.MICHAEL GREENAWALT - according to the 1850 census in Chambersburg, he was a tobacconist in town.