Harold Warp (December 21, 1903 – April 8, 1994) was an American businessman who invented Flex-O-Glass. He also founded Pioneer Village in

Minden, Nebraska Minden is a city in, and the county seat of, Kearney County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 2,923 at the 2010 census. It is home of the Pioneer Village museum complex. History Minden was established in 1876. The city was named a ...

. Harold Warp was born in a

sod house The sod house or soddy was an often used alternative to the log cabin during frontier settlement of the Great Plains of Canada and the United States in the 1800s and early 1900s. Primarily used at first for animal shelters, corrals, and fences, ...

on a farm near

. He was the youngest of twelve children born to an immigrant family from

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. When he was three years old, his father died and his mother died when he was eleven. In 1924, he and two of his brothers moved to Chicago with a patent for a plastic window material he had developed. Their business became successful and in time its product line grew to include many other plastic products. Warp Bros. is still in business and remains under family ownership. Harold Warp was the recipient of numerous awards including the Horatio Alger Award in 1979 and the Distinguished Nebraskalander Award in 1984. Pioneer Village opened in 1953 in Minden, Nebraska. In 1983, Warp donated the museum to the nonprofit Harold Warp Pioneer Village Foundation.

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Warp Bros. websitePioneer Village website
1903 births 1994 deaths Businesspeople from Nebraska American people of Norwegian descent 20th-century American businesspeople People from Minden, Nebraska 20th-century American inventors {{US-business-bio-1900s-stub

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