Nicholas Schenck
Nicholas M. Schenck (14 November 1881, Rybinsk, Russia – 4 March 1969, Florida) was a Russian-born American film studio executive and businessman.
One of seven children, Schenck was born to a Jewish household in Rybinsk, a Volga River village in Tsarist Russia. He and his family, including his older brother Joseph Schenck, emigrated to the United States in 1893, whereupon they settled in a tenement on New York's Lower East Side. Subsequently they relocated to Harlem, the population of which at that time consisted primarily of Jewish and Italian immigrants. Upon their arrival in the United States, Joe and Nick, as they came to be known, worked as a team hawking newspapers and subsequently in a drugstore. Within two years' time, they had saved up enough money to buy out the drugstore's owner and begin casting about for other business ventures.
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