Editing Sam Zemurray (section)

==Early life==
Zemurray's birth name was Schmuel Zmurri ({{Langx|yi|שמואל זמורי}}, {{Langx|ru|Шмуэль Давидович Змура}}, ''Shmuel Davidovich Zmura'').<ref name="Forverts 1951">{{cite news |title=מיליאנערםסער נאנאנא־סעניג פוז אמעריקע איז אז אייניקעל פזז מענדעל הערש הלעזמער |url=https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/frw/1951/02/21/01/article/27/?srpos=1&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxTI-%d7%a7%d7%9c%d7%a2%d7%96%d7%9e%d7%a2%d7%a8-ILLUSTRATION------------1 |work=Forverts |date=21 February 1951 |location=New York |page=4 |language=yi}}</ref> He was born to a poor [[Jews|Jewish]] family in [[Kishinev]], [[Bessarabia]], [[Russian Empire]] (present-day [[Chişinău]], [[Moldova]]). His grandfather, Mendel Hirsh of [[Sharhorod|Shargorod]], was a [[Klezmer]] musician and bandleader.<ref name="Forverts 1951" /> Zemurray grew up on a wheat farm. After his father died, he emigrated to America with his aunt in 1891 at age 14. After landing in [[New York City|New York]], he settled in [[Selma, Alabama]], where his uncle owned a [[general store]]. Zemurray worked many odd jobs during his youth, being a carpenter's assistant, delivery boy, traveling merchant, and housecleaner. Eventually, he saved enough money to bring his siblings from Europe to the United States.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Cohen, Rich|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/809411728|title=The fish that ate the whale: the life and times of America's banana king|publisher=[[Picador (imprint)|Picador]]|year=2012|isbn=978-1-250-03331-4|location=New York|oclc=809411728}}</ref>