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- Boing married Ortmann's daughter and, five years later, started his own business. He was soon selling land, timber, and iron ore at huge profits and providing extraordinarily well for his wife, Marie, and two children, William and Caroline.
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33. 5. Quick Facts. Also Known As: William Edward Boeing. Died At Age: 74. Family: Spouse/Ex-: Bertha Marie Potter Paschall (m. 1921) father: Wilhelm Boeing. mother: Marie M. Ortmann. siblings: Caroline Boeing, Gretchen Boeing. children: William E. Boeing Jr. Born Country: United States. Aviators Aviation. Height: 1.4 m.
Boeing family. In 1921, Boeing married Bertha Marie Potter Paschall (1891–1977). She had previously been married to Nathaniel Paschall, a real estate broker with whom she had two sons, Nathaniel "Nat" Paschall Jr. and Cranston Paschall. The couple had a son of their own, William E. Boeing Jr. (1922–2015). [13]
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William E. Boeing was born in Detroit to Wilhelm and Marie Boeing in 1881. His father, who arrived in the United States in 1868, had come from an old and well-to-do family in Hohenlimburg, Germany, and had served a year in the German army. He had a lust for adventure, however, and left his family, emigrating to the United States
Dec 21, 2006 · Early Years. William Edward Boeing was born on October 1, 1881, in Detroit, Michigan, the first child of William Boeing and Marie Ortmann. Boeing's father, Wilhelm Boing, a veteran of the Austro-Prussian War, emigrated to the United States in 1868 from North Rhine-Westphalia.
Aug 14, 2021 · A scion of a wealthy family from the town of Hohenlimburg (now a neighborhood in the city of Hagen, Germany) Wilhelm Böing joined the Prussian Army in 1866 and served in the Austro-Prussian War before migrating to America in 1868.
Mar 8, 2022 · Having been cut off by his father after immigrating to America, Wilhelm Böing, William’s father, forged his own way as a manual labourer before joining forces with Karl Ortmann whose daughter, Marie, he’d later marry.
May 17, 2018 · History. Historians, Miscellaneous: Biographies. William Edward Boeing. views 1,516,217 updated May 17 2018. William Edward Boeing. Capitalizing on the need for new technology in fighting World War II, William Edward Boeing (1881-1956) became a key figure in American aviation.