After moving to Canada, Schick died from complications due to a kidney operation. Also patented the General Jacobs Boat for use in shallow water, and an improved pencil sharpener. Successfully patented first electric razor in November, 1923. This business provided the necessary capital to develop his electric razor concept when he sold it to the American Chain & Cable Company in 1928. Jacob Schick's first business venture, the Magazine Repeating Razor Company (Founded 1925) sold a razor with injection cartridge blades designed much like a repeating rifle, where the blades were sold in clips that could be loaded into the razor without touching the blade. He officially retired from the military in 1910, but returned to duty from 1916-1918 as a Captain (eventually promoted to Lieutenant Colonel) which was due to the outbreak of World War I. He was promoted to first Lieutenant and was transferred to the 22nd Infantry Regiment in Alaska a year later, where he helped to lay telegraph lines for the military. suffering from dysentery, where one version of the invention story claims he conceived of the idea of an electric razor. He returned to the Philippines from 1903-1905 as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 8th Infantry Regiment.

Schick enlisted in the 14th Infantry Regiment in 1898 and was shortly thereafter assigned to the Philippines in the 1st Division 8th Army Corps. At the early age of 16, Schick was in charge of a railroad line that ran from Los Corrillos, New Mexico to a coal mine opened by his father. Schick became a Canadian citizen in 1935 to avoid an investigation by the Joint Congressional Committee on Tax Evasion & Avoidance after he moved most of his wealth to a series of holding companies in the Bahamas.

He is buried in the Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal, Quebec.Ĭolonel Jacob Schick was an American inventor and entrepreneur who patented the first electric razor and started the Schick Dry Shaver, Incorporated.

(age 59) Ottumwa, Wapello County, United States of America

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