Daily Quiz for November 5, 2008

Walter Chrysler. The founder of Chrysler Corporation, Walter Chrysler published his autobiography, Life of an American Workman, in 1937. Born in Kansas in 1875, Chrysler was an apprentice in a Union Pacific Railroad machine shop and later became a plant manager for the American Locomotive Company. He left there to become works manager for the Buick Motor Company, became Buick president in 1916. In 1919 he took over the Willys-Overland Company and Maxwell Motor Company, which became the Chrysler Corporation in 1925. Chrysler purchased the Dodge Brothers manufacturing Company in 1928. Chrysler died on August 18, 1940.