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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.
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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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Mar 14, 2024 · William Crapo Durant (born Dec. 8, 1861, Boston—died March 18, 1947, New York City) was an American industrialist and founder of General Motors Corporation, which later became one of the largest corporations in the world in terms of sales. After establishing a carriage company in Michigan in 1886, Durant took over a small firm in 1903 and ...
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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 of the 1930 ...
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 ...
Nov 13, 2015 · Consult the history for the facts. Colm Meaney plays Thomas Durant on the AMC show “Hell on Wheels”. He was born in 1820, the son of a prosperous Massachusetts merchant – also at odds with the television show’s portrayal of him as someone who had to grovel for sustenance as a child. At 20 years old, he graduated from Albany Medical ...
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.
