2. Willis Haviland Carrier
(November 26, 1876 – October 7, 1950)
Willis H. Carrier is the true American success story
and symbolizes everything that is great about this
country. Good old American ingenuity at its best!
3. Childhood:
He was the only child born to Duane William
Carrier (1836-1908) and Elizabeth R.
Haviland (1845-1888). Willis Haviland Carrier
was named after his mother’s uncle-in-law
Willis Hoag Haviland, with whom she lived
after the death of her father in 1868. The
family lived on a farm near the snowy eastern
shore of Lake Erie in Angola, NY. Read
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