This project is sponsored by the Transatlantic Program of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany through funds of the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. [17], The years immediately following World War I were difficult ones for the Boeing Company. Boeing was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a wealthy German mining engineer named Wilhelm Bing from Hagen-Hohenlimburg who had made a fortune and who had a sideline as a timber merchant. With the entry of the United States into World War II, Boeing Airplane was called upon to produce 7,000 more B-17s over the course of the war. In 1921, William Boeing married Bertha Marie (nee Potter) Paschall (1891-1977). [23] Schultz and Wilma, Boeing; Serling, Legend and Legacy, 10; Rodgers, Flying High, 38. [1] John Schultz and David Wilma, Boeing, William Edward (18811956),HistoryLink.org, (accessed Sep. 9, 2015); Boeing Company, Biography of William E. Boeing, (accessed Sep. 9, 2015). Puget Sound, Kitsap, Washington, United States, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHNW-16X, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-47001-1186-12?cc=1861144, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKNY-1JQ5, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCS1-GW2, "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008," database with images, FamilySearch (, "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (. Though Boeings father had never realized any profit from his mineral rights, they proved to be lucrative to his descendants: on her death, Boeings mother Marie left her son an estate worth nearly $1 million (approximately $24 million in 2010 dollars). We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. When the company was split into three independent companies, United Aircraft Corporation, United Air Lines and Boeing Aircraft Corporation, Boeing sold his stock, resigned as chairman, and retired. William E. Boeing, Jr. (November 22, 1922 January 8, 2015) was the son of aviation pioneer William Edward Boeing, founder of the Boeing Company. discoveries. Oops, we were unable to send the email. Advertisement. He later made a fortune from North Woods timber lands and mineral rights near Lake Superior. An avid yachtsman, Boeing had purchased the Heath Shipyard on the Duwamish River in 1910 in order to be guaranteed a place where he could have boats built and repaired. The couple had a son of their own, William E. Boeing Jr. . By 1840 or so, Germans had arrived in Michigan in significant numbers. In 1916, Boeing went into business with George Conrad Westervelt as "B & W" and founded Pacific Aero Products Co. He also bought one of Martins planes. [3], Boeing Jr. had fond childhood memories of the Red Barn, the birthplace of the Boeing Company, where he was once given a piece of balsa wood he crafted into a model ship. English Wikipedia. ~ William Boeing. Failed to delete memorial. In 1927, the Boeing Airplane Company won the bid to establish an airmail route between Chicago, Illinois and San Francisco, California. Try again later. 1 Oct 1881: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States: Marriage: Two years later, the company changed its name to United Aircraft and Transport Corporation, reflecting its growing diversity in airlines, aircraft and aircraft parts manufacturing, and schools for training pilots and maintenance personnel. Furthermore, he had the resources to keep a risky concern like a new airplane company going. William Boeing passed away on September 28, 1956, three days prior to his 75th birthday. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. As manager of this memorial you can add or update the memorial using the Edit button below. You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. I was able to work on several 747 modification programs such as the NASA 747, Air Force One and 747-E4B airplanes for the U.S. Air Force, and too many more programs to mention. Boeing was a flight enthusiast, but he was also an astute businessman and knew that the market for aircraft was at the time a limited one. I think we could build a better one. The son of a wealthy Michigan lumber magnate, Boeing inherited a fortune from his father as a child and went on to an elite education at a Swiss boarding school and at Yale. Our Boeing-Bruns relationship has lasted since the early 1940s and is still going strong. Wong met Westervelt on the East Coast and was steered by him towards working with Boeing. (UP) , surrender jct bomber, died yesterday of Britain Holds Key To nnc y, plied by the drall. His company's fortunes changed somewhat post-WWI, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt made it illegal for private companies to both make planes and run air mail routes. [28], William Boeing had never entirely left the timber business and remained involved in it until about 1954; he also became interested in real-estate development. Martin pilot James Floyd Smith went to Seattle to put together Boeings recently-purchased Martin TA hydroaeroplane and give Boeing further training. Few had any formal education in engineering or design. Boeing was born in Detroit, Michigan to Marie M. Ortmann, from Vienna, Austria, and Wilhelm Bing (1846-1890) from Hagen-Hohenlimburg, Germany. Instead, Seattle was a commercial city serving a hinterland whose primary export was lumber (Washington was the leading producer of timber in the United States by 1905). Roosevelt decided to return airmail service to private contractors. WIKITREE PROTECTS MOST SENSITIVE INFORMATION BUT ONLY TO THE EXTENT STATED IN THE TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICY. 762 (1958), 763766. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of William Boeing (10969)? The current article focuses on the products of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA), a division of the Boeing Company. In the following years, communities like Richmond Beach, Richmond Heights, Innis Arden, Blue Ridge, and Shoreview sprang up there. Six years before its founding, in 1910, a 29-year-old timber merchant named William Edward Boeing had visited the first Los Angeles International Air Meet and become passionate about aviation and its potential. [7], In 1984, Boeing was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. Being an airmail pilot was, however, quite dangerous mainly because the airplane the post office usedthe deHavilland DH-4was heavy and clumsy to fly. His holding company, United Aircraft and Transport Corporation, was divided into three individual companies: United Aircraft Corporation (currently United Technologies Corporation), Boeing Airplane Company (presently the Boeing Company), and United Air Lines. [2] In 2010, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics presented Boeing Jr. with a certificate of achievement for his commitment to education and the preservation of air and space history. We encourage you to research and examine these records . [21], The Contract Air Mail Act, however, opened up airmail routes to private companies; the Boeing company could not only build airplanes to carry the mail, but also bid for the right to operate airmail routes themselves. . While president of Greenwood Timber Company, Boeing, who had experimented with boat design, traveled to Seattle. And though legislation after the Great Depression forced him to disperse the corporation and . When post-Depression legislation in 1934 mandated the dispersion of the corporation, Boeing sold his interests in the Boeing Airplane Co. but continued to work on other business ventures. Bertha Boeing was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington, but like Boeing she had family roots further east: her mother, Alice Kershaw Potter, was the daughter of a wealthy Milwaukee grain merchant, while her father, Howard Cranston Potter, was descended from the Brown family of Brown Brothers, the New York City investment bank. Husband of Bertha Cranston Potter [13] Schultz and Wilma, Boeing; Spitzer, Boeing as a Start-Up Company, 144; Polly Reed Myers, Capitalist Family Values: Gender, Work, and Corporate Culture at Boeing (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015), 10. [8], Westervelt, a U.S. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. Even with the new pontoon, the plane crashed into Lake Washington during a flight in the fall of 1915. He was an avid fan of horse racing and began breeding horsesmany of which were nationally competitivein the late 1930s. Based on fleet size and route network, United Air Lines is the third largest airline in the world. Boeing is committed to serving and supporting its customers. About a month after that, Boeing gave his company a new name, Boeing Airplane Company, and was successful in securing a 50-plane order from the US Navy. We will review the memorials and decide if they should be merged. Additionally there is a photocopy of a map which depicts the Boeing family homestead in Germany and an undated caricature of WEB flying a biplane. Fun facts: before fame, family life, popularity rankings, and more. Net Worth: $200 Million. Born Wilhelm Edward Bing in Detroit, Michigan, he was the oldest of three children of well-to-do German immigrants who had made their fortune developing low-grade taconite iron ore for use in steel making and in timber marketing. William Boeing. Memorials. These characteristics, coupled with a strong commitment to excellent engineering and design, laid the foundation for a company that, perhaps more than any other, became a lasting symbol of the strength of American manufacturing in the twentieth century. Sitelinks. Furthermore, the German community in Detroit was growing. The new company initiated airmail service on July 1, 1927. This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates. He bought extensive timberlands around Grays Harbor on the Pacific side of the Olympic Peninsula. Skip Ancestry navigation . William E. Boeing left Yale University in 1903 to take advantage of opportunities in the risky and cyclical, but financially rewarding, Northwest timber industry. Family Life. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. He left Yale in 1903, and moved to Grays Harbor, Washington, where he learned the logging business, beginning with timberlands that he inherited from his father's estate. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. Boeings personal wealth thus was a crucial advantage in the companys early years. The United States' first significant air show was 10 days of thrilling feats of aviation on and above the bare hilltop and fields of the old Spanish grant lands of the Dominguez family, which welcomed the air meet after it turned out that the entire East Coast was too cold duh . login . As a final honor, Boeing was, in 1966, inducted into the Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio in recognition of his contributions to the development of aircraft and air transport.[37]. William Edward Boeing (/bo/; October 1, 1881 - September 28, 1956) was an American aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company in 1916. His father was a wealthy lumberman so, in 1902, Boeing went to work for the family . Boeings global reach includes customers in approximately 150 countries and employees and operations in more than 65 countries. William H. Comrie (born 1949) is a Canadian businessman. He began investing most of his time into his horses in 1937. CONTENT MAY BE COPYRIGHTED BY WIKITREE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. In 1910, Los Angeles was in it for the dough. The collection holds textual materials, such as correspondence, philately, business-related materials, clippings, and ephemera, as well as photographs and illustrations related to his personal and business life, circa 1783-2008. Our family keeps up the Boeing-Bruns tradition, as our son and grandson have followed in our footsteps. I am a third-generation Boeing employee following my father, Theodore, and grandfather George, who worked in Seattle during World War II. The company's first plane was the Boeing Model 1. After he permanently returned to US, he started attending Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. William was born the son of a prosperous German immigrant. An "Incredible" Boeing Family By William (Bill) Bruns March 2016. What he did have was the ability to recognize opportunities when they presented themselves and the skill to leverage his considerable personal resources in pursuit of those opportunities. Although Boeing aircraft today are synonymous with commercial aviation, it is not clear that this was something that motivated Boeing in the early years of his firm. After relocating to the Pacific Northwest at Hoquiam, Washington, William Boeing bought large timberlands around Grays Harbor on the Olympic Peninsula and acquired necessary permits for lumber operations. Boeing was cremated and his ashes were dispersed on the coast of British Columbia, where he sailed his yacht, Taconite. Concerned about the possibility of World War II battles in the Pacific Northwest, he purchased a 650-acre (260ha) farm in the countryside east of Seattle, which he dubbed "Aldarra." SEATTLE (AP) William E. Boeing Jr., a son of aerospace pioneer William Boeing Sr. who championed and remained fascinated by flight throughout his life, has died at age 92. He was the founder of the Boeing Airplane Company, now the Boeing Aerospace Corporation. In May 1908, the U.S. Navys Great White Fleet voyage stopped at Grays Harbor and Boeing used the opportunity to execute a long-planned move to Seattle, piloting his own 45-foot boat up the coast following the fleet and then down Puget Sound to Seattle. His mother subsequently wedded a second time. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA. In 1934, the United States Government accused Boeing of monopolistic practices and violating the Air Mail Act. He paid for the construction there of a mansion designed by renowned local architect Charles Bebb which was completed in 1914. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. stated in. This enabled him to provide well for his wife and three children, William, Caroline, and Gretchen. They soon built and flew the B & W Seaplane, an amphibian biplane that had outstanding performance. Site Terms | Privacy and Cookie Statement | Ad Choices That to me was a true "Boeing Family" experience. William E. Boeing, Jr. (November 22, 1922 - January 8, 2015) was the son of aviation pioneer William Edward Boeing, founder of the Boeing Company. In the next few years, it merged with several other airlines to form United Air Lines. Marie eventually remarried a Virginia physician and left Detroit. Try again later. They flew a Boeing C-700 seaplane for the demonstration trip from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Seattle's Lake Union, carrying a bag of 60 letters from the Canadian post office for delivery in the U.S.[8], In 1921, Boeing married Bertha Marie Potter Paschall (1891-1977). 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