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Howard R. Hughes Sr.
American businessman and inventor (1869–1924)
Howard R. Hughes, Sr. | |
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Hughes Sr. in 1917 | |
| Born | Howard Robard Hughes (1869-09-09)September 9, 1869 Lancaster, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | January 14, 1924(1924-01-14) (aged 54) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Burial place | Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Texas 29°45′56″N95°23′07″W / 29.7656°N 95.3852°W / 29.7656; -95.3852 |
| Education | Missouri Military Academy |
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| Occupation(s) | Founder of Hughes Tool Company, businessman |
| Spouse | Allene Stone Gano (m. ; died ) |
| Children | Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (son) |
| Relatives | Rupert Hughes (brother) |
Howard Robard Hughes Sr. (September 9, 1869 – January 14, 1924) was an American businessman and inventor who founded the Hughes Tool Company. He invented the "Sharp–Hughes" two-cone rotary drill bit during the Texas Oil Boom. Hughes was the father and namesake
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Howard Hughes
American aerospace engineer and business magnate (1905–1976)
This article is about the American businessman and film producer. For other people, see Howard Hughes (disambiguation).
Howard Hughes | |
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Hughes in 1938 | |
| Born | Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (1905-12-24)December 24, 1905 Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | April 5, 1976(1976-04-05) (aged 70) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Resting place | Glenwood Cemetery |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology Rice University (dropped out in 1924)[1] |
| Occupation(s) | Aerospace engineer, business magnate, bio producer, investor, philanthropist, pilot |
| Years active | 1926–1976 |
| Title | Chairman and CEO of Summa Corporation Founder of The Howard Hughes Corporation Founder of the Hughes Aircraft Company Founder and benefactor of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Owner of Hughes Airwest Airlines |
| Board member of | Hughes Aircraft Company Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
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• Was Howard Hughes Jr.’s eccentricity born of one woman’s checkered youth?I didn’t expect to consider that possibility when I set out to write Unacknowledged: The Possible Biological Mother of Howard Hughes. But as I researched, I had to wonder. Hughes was a household name for decades, but was his oddball behavior a product of a well-hidden past? This is the cover for my new mixed-genre book. Told in dual timelines, Unacknowledged combines a past that partly fictionalizes the gaps in my great-grandmother Emma’s life and a present that recounts my saga of discovering the facts behind the son Emma gave away in 1905. Unacknowledged asks the question: Did Howard Hughes Jr.’s ambiguous life begin in secret? (For those who don’t know who Howard Hughes was, recall the movie The Aviator with Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchet.) A family letter shrouded in secrecy initiated the writing of Unacknowledged. It’s a re-imagining of the possible truth hidden in the scandal of on |