Sam Eskin worked for United Parcel Service
intermittently from about 1925 to about 1945-46. His investment
in UPS stock provided him a more comfortable "retirement" than he
had expected. It also gave him the freedom to widen his folk
music collecting and researching to remote parts of the world.
Sam Eskin, 1935. Picture taken by Alfred Cohen .
This picture by photographer Alfred Cohen is when
Sam was an executive with UPS. Although Sam used to say he never
had to wear a tie, there are a few pictures, like this one, that refute
that!
Sam held a faith for and business sense of UPS that seems rare in today's close-to-the-turn of-the-century world; and although he did not totally bind his heirs and Trustees from disposing of the UPS stock he had accumulated, he did lean pretty heavily with a statement in his will, drawn 29 April 1973:
"9. Notwithstanding any powers of restrictions set forth herein, it is my wish and desire that my Trustees not sell or encumber the stock of United Parcel Service, Inc., or its legal successors, of which I may die possessed unless, in the considered best judgment of my Trustees, it is absolutely essential to the efficient administration of the trust funds created herein to sell or encumber said United Parcel Service, Inc. stock, and all other reasonable administrative alternatives have been exhausted..."
[It is unknown by this compiler-editor, at this time, whether or not this request was met.]