Walter Kidde

Walter Kidde ( /ˈkɪdə/; March 7, 1877 – February 9, 1943) was born in Hoboken, New Jersey. He graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1897.^[1] He was the owner of the Kidde company which manufactured fire extinguishers. His parents immigrated to the United States from Bohemia, and he is unrelated to the Danish Kidde family, to which the author Harald Kidde and the cartoonist and author Rune T. Kidde belongs.

Even though he had no railroad experience, Walter Kidde was the court appointed trustee of the bankrupt New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway from July 24, 1937 until his death in 1943.

Memorials

Kidde is honored with the Walter Kidde Dinosaur Park

References

^ Price, Norman (Feb 01, 2009). "Walter Kidde". http://secondriver.blogspot.com/2009/02/walter-kidde.html. Retrieved 2009-03-09.

Robert E. Mohowski (2003). The New York Susuquehanna & Western Railroad. The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-7222-7.

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Date of birth	March 7, 1877
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Date of death	February 9, 1943
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