Background
Wilder, Laurence Russell was born on November 22, 1887 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. Son of John E. and Laura (Hurlbut) Wilder.
manufacturer electrical engineer
Wilder, Laurence Russell was born on November 22, 1887 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. Son of John E. and Laura (Hurlbut) Wilder.
Junior Mechanical Engineering, Lewis Institute, Chicago, 1905. Special study Princeton, 1906-1908, Purdue, 1910-1912.
Built first large scale production small internal combustion engine, Aeronautical Motor Company, Chicago, 1907-1908. Executive manager Wilder Tanning Company, Waukegan, Illinois, 1909-1917. Aircraft production, Washington, District of Columbia, 1917-1918.
President Fansteel Products Company, North Chicago, manufacturers electric specialties, 1919-1921.
Representative in the United States of Brown Boveri & Limited company, Switzerland, 1922-1924, acquiring American rights in latter year. Organized American Brown Boveri Electric Corporation, 1925, acquiring New York Shipbuilding Corporation (Camden, New Jersey), Condit Electrical Manufacturing Corporation (Boston) and Moloney Electric Company (Saint Louis).
President American Brown Boveri Electric Corporation, 1925-1927, chairman advisory committee of the company’s shipbuilding division, also chairman boards Moloney Electric Company, Condit Electrical
Manufacturing Corporation, and Transoceanic Corporation of the United States, and president Scintilla Magnetos Company, Incorporated., Sidney, New New York
Married Dorothee Richardson, December 3, 1924.