Chester H. Roth

Chester H. Roth (April 13, 1902 – July 26, 1977) was an American businessman who founded the Chester H. Roth Company and served as president and CEO of its successor Kayser-Roth Corporation.

Biography Roth was raised in a Jewish family in New York City where he attended the New York Textile School. As a youth, he worked at the General Merchandise Exchange, a clothing distributor, where In 1925, he started The Chester H. Roth Company, a hosiery manufacturer.

He served on the Board of Overseers of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, as chairman of the executive committee of the New York Anti-Defamation League Appeal, as a director of the North Carolina Textile Foundation, and as an honorary member of the New York Academy of Science.

Roth was married to Janet Falk Roth (preceded him in death); they had three children, David J. Roth, Andrea Roth, and Lynn Roth Cott. He married again to Yvonne Russell-Farrow. Roth died at the Hotel Pierre in Manhattan; services were held at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan.