Henry Bloch, who with a brother turned a Kansas City bookkeeping firm into tax-preparation giant H&R Block, died at age 96
Henry Bloch, who died Tuesday at age 96, nearly blew his chance to become the “H” in H&R Block.
Mr. Bloch and his younger brother Richard, who ran a small, struggling bookkeeping firm in Kansas City, Mo., in the mid-1950s, saw tax preparation as peripheral to their business and planned to eliminate it. But one client, John White, an ad salesman for the Kansas City Star, urged them to try running ads offering to prepare individuals’ federal and state taxes for $5. The ads brought in such a flood of business they decided...
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