Morris Segal and Abraham Robert Suritz

Merchant
c.1940s-c.1950s

Main Street
Rock Hill, SC

FAMILIES: Segal; Suritz

Morris Segal and Abraham Robert Suritz (1906-1991), a Latvian immigrant, owned a jewelry store on Main Street in Rock Hill. Suritz moved to Washington, D.C. in 1960, before he moved to Boca Raton, Florida in 1974.

Main Image: Suritz (right) at S.C. Council of Human Relations Meeting (1955), courtesy Richland Library, Columbia, SC

The Jewish Merchant Project is supported by the generosity of the Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation and the Stanley B. Farbstein Endowment at the Coastal Community Foundation.

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