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- Finished circa 1930; partially published in 2012, Isadore Levinson autobiography (history of Sam Levinson).
Pp. 48–49: "My brother Sam, and Meyer Bear, a son of Lable Goldsmith . . . left for America in 1876. They landed in New York. . . . My brother met a friend in New York, and he and brother left for Syracuse, N.Y. The friends name was Jacob Levinson. . . . They were taken for father and son, so my brother changed his name from Sam Smolinski, our family name, to Levinson, and all the rest of our family, from then on, go by the name of Levinson." /
P. 55: "Before the year was out, brother Sam was married to a girl Rebeca from Wistinets, in the state of Suwalk." /
". . . I could go to Chicago where my brother Sam lives . . ." /
"My brother Sam, as I said before, was peddling in the country around Chicago. . . ."
- Isadore Levinson autobiography.
P. 55: "Before the year [1876] was out brother Sam was married to a girl Rebeca from Wistinets in the state of Suwalk, he met her at her friends in Syracuse. They left for Chicago."
P. 213: "My brother Sam, after his wife, mother of his children died 36 years old, he did not wait very long and he kept on getting married again keeping on to divorce one and to marry again"
Dating is off by at least four years, since son Isaac was born in Syracuse in 1872.
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