The Schwebel Family

 The Schwebel family saga began in Czortkow, Poland in 1874 when Morris Schwebel was born the oldest of five children to David and Sima Goldberg Schwebel. By 1898, Morris saved enough money working as a baker to move to America. He settled in New York City and sent for his younger brother Joseph in 1900. With family ties to the Goldberg’s in Youngstown, Joseph moved to the valley a short time after coming to America.

 Once in Ohio, Joseph Schwebel began working in the Ozersky Brothers Bakery and married his first cousin Dora Goldberg. Eventually, he decided to leave the Ozersky’s bakery and begin his own with an unknown partner. This arrangement was short lived and the first Schwebel bakery was a failure. However, in 1906 Dora agreed to go into business with her husband and they soon opened a new shop in Campbell. Joseph would do the baking while Dora went out and sold the loaves of bread to the mill workers and their families. 

Within two years, the bakery grew so successful that the original storefront in Campbell was no longer sufficient. In order to expand, the Schwebels decided to move to Center Street in Hazelton. In 1910, the business had grown so much that Dora (“Ma”) and Joe Schwebel sent for Morris, who was still in New York. He would remain with the bakery until his retirement in 1939.   

As the Schwebel bakery continued to grow, so did the family. Dora and Joe had six children. In 1928, Joseph died leaving Dora to tend to both the family and the business. She was able to successful nurture both. In 1951, Schwebel’s bakery moved to a-state-of-the-art factory on East Midlothian Boulevard. In addition, the company also began selling bread in the Cleveland and Akron-Canton areas. Except for the oldest, Samuel who became a doctor, all the children aided their mother with the business. It remains to this day a tightly run family bakery, despite all of its growth and success. In 2006, Schwebel’s bakery celebrated its 100th anniversary. [1]