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William Boeing
Extracted from the Wikipedia article William E. Boeing.
Early life
William Boeing was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Marie M. Ortmann, from Vienna, Austria, and Wilhelm Böing (1846–1890), a wealthy mining engineer, from Hohenlimburg, Germany. Wilhelm Böing had emigrated to the United States in 1868 and initially worked as a laborer. His move to the United States was disliked by his father and he received no financial support. He later made a fortune from North Woods timber lands and iron ore mineral rights on the Mesabi Range of Minnesota, north of Lake Superior.