Carpenter, Walter Samuel, 1888-1976
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Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., was born in Wilkes Barre, Pa., on January 8, 1888. He graduated from Wyoming Seminary in 1906 and entered Cornell University. He left in 1910 in the middle of his senior year, when he was hired by the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. to go to Chile in connection with the nitrate business. After several years, he came to Wilmington as the Director of the Development Department. He was elected as director and vice president in 1919 and in 1926 he was named vice chairman of the executive committee. Carpenter was president of the company from 1940-47 and chairman of the board from 1948 to 1962. Carpenter was also a director of the General Motors Corp. from 1929 to 1954 and served on the GM finance committee from 1932 to 1944. Walter Carpenter died in Wilmington, Del., on February 2, 1976.
From the description of Business papers, 1926-1975. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 80975080
Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., was born on January 8, 1888, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Wyoming Seminary in 1906 and entered Cornell University. He left in 1910 in the middle of his senior year, when he was hired by the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. to go to Chile in connection with the nitrate business. After several years, he came to Wilmington as the Director of the Development Department. He was elected as director and vice president in 1919, and in 1926 he was named vice chairman of the executive committee. Carpenter was president of the company from 1940-1947 and chairman of the board from 1948-1962. He died in Wilmington on February 2, 1976.
From the description of Personal papers, 1917-1976. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122405915
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Subjects:
- Antitrust investigations
- Automobile industry and trade
- Bonus system
- Business enterprises
- Business enterprises
- Cartels
- Cellophane
- Charities
- Chemical industry
- Chile saltpeter
- Competition, Unfair
- Consolidation and merger of corporations
- Depressions
- Domestic relations
- Dye industry
- Educational fund raising
- Endowments
- Explosives industry
- Industrial concentration
- Industrial policy
- Research, Industrial
- Neoprene
- Nitrate industry
- Nuclear energy
- Nylon
- Philanthropists
- Political refugees
- Rayon
- Rayon industry and trade
- Rubber, Artificial
- Tetraethyllead
- Textile fibers, Synthetic
- Trusts and trusteeships
- Voyages and travels
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- Argentina (as recorded)
- Cuba (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- Chile (as recorded)
