George R. Samit was born October 14th, 1909 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to Louis and Fanny Samit. His father had immigrated to Canada with his wife from Russia in 1886, likely related to the persecution of Russian-Jews during the late 19th century. (On several census records, he and/or his family is listed as being of "Jewish" decent or religion). George had several siblings, named Anna (Annie), Nathan, Belle, Max, and Sam. At the time of the 1911 Canadian Census, his family lived in Montreal.
He immigrated with his mother, Max, and Annie in July 1918 from Montreal to the United States, to join his father Louis in Brooklyn, NY.
At the time of the 1920 US Census, he was 11, living with his parents on Junius St in Brooklyn, not too far from the school he likely would have been attending, PS 66 Lew Wallace School. This school served K-8 students from the surrounding Brownsville neighborhood, and its student body was "almost exclusively Jewish" due to the boom of immigration at the time. He left school after he completed the 8th grade, which was not too uncommon for children from immigrant families at the time.
At the time of the 1930 US Census, George was 21, living in Cambridge, MA, working as a salesman at a shoestore.
At the time of the 1940 US Census, he was a guest at the Hotel Manhattan Towers at 2166 Broadway in Manhattan, New York City. He had paperwork filed to become a naturalized citizen of the United States. He was working as a Transit Consultant in the Motor Truck Transportation industry.
He died October 1989 at the Cabrini Nursing Home, and was buried on Hart Island.
Sources:
Canada Census, 1911
Vermont, St. Albans Canadian Border Crossings, 1895-1954
1920 US Census, 1930 US Census, 1940 US Census
SSDI Death Index
"The Mermen of Brownsville", https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2015/01/08/mermen-brownsville