User:Polleyda11/Foster Gunnison Sr

Foster Gunnison was an entrepreneur in the prefabricated housing industry.

Early Life and Education

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  • Foster Gunnison was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 8, 1896
  • Family owned the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper
  • Attended Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana
  • Attended St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York

Early Career

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  • Trained as a journalist
  • Worked for Life Saver candy??
  • Purchased a lighting company that ended up doing the lighting for the facade of the Empire State Building and interior lighting in parts of the Rockefeller Center
  • Got involved with American Homes, Inc. a company that made prefabricated homes and was backed, in part by industrialist Owen D. Young

Gunnison Homes, Inc.

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Personal Life

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