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Schenck and the French painter Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899) were the most sought-after animal painters whose works were collected internationally. [citation needed] Around 1862 Schenck and his wife, Ludowika Stapaczinska, who was born in Warsaw, settled in the town of Écouen, about 20 km north of Paris. The town was known as an artist colony.
He later worked with Garret Schenck, part owner of the Rumford Falls Paper Company, to build a paper mill in Millinocket, Penobscot County, Maine on the river. Schenck formed the Northern Development Company in 1897. The Millinocket plant produced its first roll of newsprint on 9 November 1900. [2] A second mill in Madison opened in 1906.
Mary Schenck Woolman (1860–1940), pioneer in vocational education (born Mary Schenck) Michael Schenck (1876–1948), Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court; Nicholas Schenck (1881–1969), American film industry executive; Norman C. Schenck, mycologist who described Glomus aggregatum; Paul Schenck (born 1958), clergyman, lecturer, and author
William C. Schenck was born at Freehold, New Jersey, on January 11, 1773.His father was a Presbyterian minister, and his mother was a sister of General John N. Cumming, with whom he lived for a time at Newark. [1]
Anguish (French: Angoisses or Angoisse) is an 1878 oil painting by August Friedrich Schenck. It depicts an anguished mother sheep standing over the dead body of her lamb, surrounded by a murder of crows. Perhaps Schenck's most famous painting, it is held by National Gallery of Victoria, in Melbourne, Australia since 1880. The painting was an ...
Carl Alwin Schenck (March 25, 1868 – May 17, 1955) was a German forester and pioneering forestry educator. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] When Schenck came to the United States to work for George W. Vanderbilt at the Biltmore Estate , he became the third formally trained forester in the United States. [ 3 ]
Schenck was born to a Jewish family [2] in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russian Empire.He emigrated to New York City on July 19, 1892, under the name Ossip Schenker; [3] and with his younger brother Nicholas eventually got into the entertainment business, operating concessions at New York's Fort George Amusement Park.
Robert Cumming Schenck (October 4, 1809 – March 23, 1890) was a Union Army general in the American Civil War, and American diplomatic representative to Brazil and the United Kingdom. He was at both battles of Bull Run and took part in Jackson's Valley Campaign of 1862, and the Battle of Cross Keys .