Hirsch Loeb Sabsovich

Hirsch Loeb Sabsovich (1860 {{ndash}} 1915) was a Russian-born Jewish American agronomist, chemist, agricultural educator, Mayor of Woodbine, New Jersey, General Agent of the Baron de Hirsch Fund,Sabsovich, Katharine. [https://books.google.com/books?id=DJc1AAAAMAAJ Adventures in Idealism: A Personal Record of the Life of Professor Sabsovich], Stratford Press, 1922 and a leader of the Am Olam movement.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sabsovich-h-l|title=Sabsovich, H.L.|website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}

Sabsovich was chosen to lead the Woodbine Jewish agricultural community when it was established in the 1890s. When the community was incorporated as a borough in 1903, around which time about 80% of its residents were Jewish, Sabsovich was elected as Woodbine's first mayor.[https://sites.rutgers.edu/jewish-agriculture/jewish-farming-in-the-garden-state/woodbine/ Jewish Agriculturalism in the Garden State: Woodbine], Rutgers University. Accessed February 13, 2024. "By virtue of its growth, Woodbine became an independent borough in 1903; Sabsovich served as its first elected mayor. Almost all its residents at this time were Jewish farmers, business owners and laborers. By 1900 approximately 900 people lived in town, 760 of them Jews."