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  1. www.wwdurantstory.com › timeline-of-william-duranTimeline of William Durant's Life - Durant Family Saga

    Timeline of William West Durant's Life. Sunset on Raquette Lake, NY. 1850. William West Durant (WWD) born to Dr. Thomas C. Durant and Heloise Timbrell Durant in Brooklyn NY; Sister Ella (Heloise) born three years later (1853). 1858 Ralph Waldo Emerson is part of the Philosophers Camp; writes The Adirondacs poem.

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  2. www.thefamouspeople.com › profiles › thomas-c-durantThomas C. Durant Biography - Facts, Childhood, Family Life ...

    Born on February 6, 1820, in Lee, Massachusetts, USA, Thomas C. Durant was the son of Thomas Durant and Sybil Durant. He had at least two brothers, Charles Wright Durant and William F. Durant. He pursued a medical degree at Albany Medical College, from where he graduated cum laude in 1840. He taught as an assistant professor of surgery for a ...

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    Feb 6, 2024 · Thomas C. Durant was married to Hannah Heloise Trimble and they had two children together. Their son, William West Durant, became an architect, and their daughter, Héloïse Durant Rose, was a poet, dramatist, and critic. Death & Legacy. Thomas C. Durant passed away on October 5, 1885, in Warren County, New York, at the age of 65.

  5. www.americanheritage.com › general-general-motorsThe General Of General Motors - American Heritage

    August 1973. Volume. 24. Issue. 5. On March 18, 1947, at 2:15 A.M. , William Crapo Durant, founder of General Motors and Chevrolet and the “leading bull” in the great stock-market boom and crash of the late 1920’s, died at his New York City apartment with his wife and nurse in attendance. His last fortune had evaporated in the Depression ...

  6. www.encyclopedia.com › william-crapo-durantWilliam Crapo Durant | Encyclopedia.com

    Jun 27, 2018 · The American industrialist William Crapo Durant (1861-1947) was the founder of General Motors, an automobile manufacturing company. William C. Durant was born in Boston, Mass., on Dec. 8, 1861. He grew up in Flint, Mich., where he became a leading carriage manufacturer. In 1886 he organized the Durant-Dort Company and helped to make Flint the ...

  7. www.historyonawhim.com › articles › william-c-durantWilliam C. Durant: Builder of the General Motor’s Empire

    Jun 10, 2021 · According to a biographer, Axel Madsen, in The Deal Maker: How William C. Durant made General Motors, Durant was an adept salesman from a young age. He traveled extensively around Michigan, successfully selling cigars. While late for a meeting, in 1886, Durant hitched a ride on the carriage of his friend, John Alger.

  8. willdurant.net › biographyBiography · The Will Durant Timeline Project

    Biography. Over the course of six decades, Will Durant enjoyed a remarkable career as a philosopher and historian, beginning with the publication of his book, The Story of Philosophy, in 1927. A few years after releasing that book, Durant took on the monumental task of writing an integrative account of human history, which became The Story of ...

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