Background
Hart, Laurence Collett was born on May 8, 1891 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. Son of Samuel F. and Clara (Burns) Hart.
Hart, Laurence Collett was born on May 8, 1891 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. Son of Samuel F. and Clara (Burns) Hart.
Graduate, Stivers Manual Training High School, Dayton, Ohio, 1909. Standard Chartered Bank, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1913.
Salesman, Bemis Brother Bag. Company, St. Louis, Missouri, 1913-1914; acoustical engineer, Johns-Manville Sales Corporation, 1914; department manager, Johns-Manville Sales Corporation, 1916; sales manager western division, Johns-Manville Sales Corporation, 1918; assistant general sales manager New York, Johns-Manville Sales Corporation, 1923; general sales manager building materials department, Johns-Manville Sales Corporation, from 1935; vice president, Johns-Manville Sales Corporation, from 1940; also board directors, Johns-Manville Sales Corporation vice president, Johns-Manville Corporation, 1947; retired, Johns-Manville Corporation, 1956; executive vice president, Junior Achievement Inc.
Member Producers Council Inc. (president, director 1945-1946), Engineers Club, Masons, K.T., Shriners, Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Married Bernice Van Allen, August 9, 1913. Children: Fred Van Allen, Bernice Virginia (Mistress Robert Raymond Tompkins).