Early Life and Education
Born into a Christian Armenian family in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Izmir, Turkey), Manoogian was 19 when he immigrated to the United States. He was a refugee from the Armenian genocide in the wake of the collapse of the empire during World War I and the rise of the Turkish nationalist movement.
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