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John N.C. Schenck, son of Rev. William Schenck, was born January 24, 1778, in Churchville, Pennsylvania. His father had the chief supervision of his education, combined with facilities as were to be found in Ballston, New York, and Huntington, New York. Like his brother William Cortenus Schenck, John went to the Northwest Territory. [1]
Schenck was born in Amersfoort in the Dutch Republic. In 1675, Schenck bought a parcel of land on Molen Eylandt (Mill Island) in the Dutch town of Nieuw Amersfoort (now Flatlands), and his family owned the house for over a century. The area around the old house started to become heavily developed in the 1920s.
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] Family tradition says he graduated from Princeton University in 1793 or 1794, though that is unconfirmed. [1]
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
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 .
Johannes Schenck (or Johan Schenk, [1] 3 June 1660–after 1712) was a Dutch musician and composer. Schenck was born in Amsterdam and baptized in a Catholic hidden church . He became a renowned virtuoso viola da gamba player.
The property was originally part of the Hamlet of Snyder, in the Town of Amherst and continued to be when the family sold it to the Country Club of Buffalo [1] in 1898. The Country Club kept the original buildings except for a cottage – northwest of the main stone house – where Samuel Schenck’s mother Catherine Schenck lived.
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.