Search results
Walter Percy Chrysler Jr. John Forker Chrysler. Relatives. Edgar Garbisch (son-in-law) Walter Percy Chrysler (April 2, 1875 – August 18, 1940) was an American businessman. He was the executive and the founder and namesake of American Chrysler Corporation .
Walter Percy Chrysler (27 May 1909–17 September 1988), art collector, was born in Oelwein, Iowa, and was the son of Walter Percy Chrysler and Della Viola Forker Chrysler. In 1912 the family settled in Flint, Michigan, where his father entered the burgeoning automotive industry. They moved again in 1920 to New York, and five years later the ...
Walter Chrysler. Today, an odd glimpse of the texture of fame. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. From 1928 to '31, New York's Chrysler Building was the world's tallest. Then the new Empire State Building ...
Sep 23, 2021 · Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., ca. 1919. As a child, Walter, Jr. collected toy banks, stamps, and coins. Della and Walter, Sr. soon picked up on his collecting proclivities and challenged him with little tests, offering him “small” amounts of money and tasking him to find the best work of art he could with the funds provided.
May 26, 2005 · IN 1930, when the first visitors to the Chrysler Building's 71st-floor observation deck made their way out of the elevator, they passed a vitrine containing a box of metal tools -- wrenches and ...
Aug 18, 2023 · The couple had four children, including Thelma Chrysler, Bernice Chrysler, Walter Chrysler Jr., and John Chrysler. The Chrysler didn’t stay in Utah long, though. Even with newborn baby Thelma having just arrived, the family picked up and moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Walter was a manager for the Allegheny Locomotive Company making ...
Sep 23, 2018 · The Chrysler company grew to 76,000 employees, and in 1929, Time magazine named Walter P. Chrysler "Man of the Year." In April of the following year, Chrysler completed New York's tallest building, aptly named the Chrysler building, a 77-story structure designed by noted architect William van Alen.
