Chester Thordarson
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Chester H. Thordarson (1867 - 1945) was an inventor who eventually held nearly a hundred patents. He immigrated to the United States from Iceland in 1873. During his lifetime he founded a successful manufacturing company in Chicago, Illinois and established a vacation retreat on Rock Island, an island off the tip Wisconsin's Door Peninsula. Several years after his death Rock Island was designated Rock Island State Park.
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