The property was developed as a country club
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Walter Percy Chrysler Sr.
Walter Percy Chrysler was an American industrial pioneer in the automotive industry, automotive industry executive, and the founder and namesake of American Chrysler Corporation.
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business · American automotive industry executive (1875–1940) · machinist · engineer · business executive · industrialist · entrepreneur · also Walter Percy Chrysler Sr., Walter Chrysler, Walter P. Chrysler, Walter Percy Chrysler, W. P. Chrysler, Sr.
Born 2 April 1875 · Died 18 August 1940 · Q318044
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By Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, with a new postscript by collaborative author Boyden Sparkes
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1940· 1 entry
Died 1940-08-18.
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1934· 1 entry
Purchased and undertook a major restoration of the Fauquier White Sulphur Springs Company resort and spa in Warrenton
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1928· 1 entry
Chrysler purchased Dodge Brothers and renamed it Dodge
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1923· 1 entry
Chrysler purchased from Henri Willis Bendel a twelve-acre (5 ha) waterfront estate at Kings Point on Long Island, New York, and renamed it Forker House
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1921· 1 entry
After an unsuccessful attempt to wrestle control from John Willys, he acquired a controlling interest in the ailing Maxwell Motor Company
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1911· 2 entries
For $6,000 a year (equivalent to $207,321 in 2025), and left one of the richest men in the United States
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When he received a summons to meet with James J
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1908· 1 entry
Had retaken GM from bankers who had taken over the company
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1897· 1 entry
Then to Denver, Colorado for two weeks, and finally Cheyenne, Wyoming
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1875· 1 entry
Born 1875-04-02.
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1850· 1 entry
And immigrated to the United States after 1858
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