Walter Percy Chrysler was a German American automobile pioneer. He was born in Wamego, Kansas and grew up in Ellis, Kansas. He also lived in Oelwein, Iowa, where there is a small park dedicated to him. His automobile career began when the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) decided to diversify into the automobile business. Chrysler was the plant manager. ALCO had some racing success but less in the way of sales success. Wikipedia
One Walter P. Chrysler's boyhood homes is preserved in Ellis, Kansas and is open year around, along with a small museum. www.kansastravel.org/walterpchrysler.htm
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Walter Chrysler finished his apprenticeship and received his Journeyman's Certificate at the age of twenty-two. He then left Ellis to search for fortune. He went to work for the Rio Grande & Western Railroad at Salt Lake City in the roundhouse. He quic www3.sympatico.ca/skpowell/wpc.htm
This amazing building represents the pinnacle of achievement for Walter P. Chrysler . After putting together the Chrysler Corporation from the remnants of Maxwell-Chalmers in 1925, acquiring the Dodge Brothers Company in 1928 and introducing both the Ply www.chryslerclub.org/walterp.html
Mr. CHRYSLER was born in Wamego, Kansas, April 2, 1871, and is a son of Henry and Mary ( BREYMAN ) CHRYSLER. Henry CHRYSLER was a locomotive engineer on the old Kansas Pacific (now Union Pacific) railroad, whose termini were Kansas City and Denver, thoug www.rootsweb.com/~iafayett/fchrys.htm
