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Philanthropist, Industrialist, Businessman
Born Henry Wollman BLOCH
American businessman and philanthropist
Born on July 30, 1922 in Kansas City, Missouri , United States
Died on April 23, 2019 in Kansas City, Missouri , United States
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Bloch was born to a Jewish family in Kansas City on July 30, 1922, the son of Hortense (Bienenstock) and Leon Bloch. He attended Southwest High School, and was an undergraduate at University of Missouri–Kansas City. He later attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, graduating in 1944. He was initiated as a brother of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity's Phi xhapter at the University of Michigan in 1940. Through the U.S. Army Air Corps he received graduate training at the Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts.
... He was the co-founder and (since 2000) the chairman emeritus of the American tax-preparation company H&R Block. Henry and his brother, Richard Bloch, founded H&R Block in 1955 in Kansas City, Missouri.
Bloch was born to a Jewish family in Kansas City on July 30, 1922, the son of Hortense (Bienenstock) and Leon Bloch. He attended Southwest High School, and was an undergraduate at University of Missouri–Kansas City. He later attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, graduating in 1944. He was initiated as a brother of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity's Phi xhapter at the University of Michigan in 1940. Through the U.S. Army Air Corps he received graduate training at the Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts.
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