Samuel Oschin (1914–July 28, 2003),[1][2] born in Dayton, Ohio, was a Los Angeles entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Oschin was born to a Jewish family on July 18, 1914, in Dayton, Ohio.[2] He has a brother, Albert Oschin, and sister, Ruth Oschin Weiss.[2] At the age of ten, he started working cleaning chimneys, which grew into a small business, employing other boys.[2] He never completed high school, instead working with his father who was a painter, and then took a job at Briggs manufacturing, a tool and die company in Detroit.[2] During World War II, he and his two brothers formed a tool and die company and won a large contract supplying airplane parts to the United States Army Air Forces, which eventually evolved to the manufacture of bombs.[2] After the war, he converted his factory to the manufacture of furniture to support increased demand from returning soldiers.
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