Bloch, Henry Wollman

Bloch, Henry Wollman

accountants; born in Kansas City, Mo. Sons of a lawyer whose own father came west as a scout for Kit Carson, the brothers founded the tax preparation firm H & R Block in Kansas City in 1955, opening a branch in New York City the following year. By the mid-1980s the firm, with 9,000 offices in North America, prepared 10 percent of all U.S. and Canadian tax returns.