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Gift of the Estate of Janice B. Habicht, 2015.124.1 (c) 2015 Connecticut Historical Society
William H. Habicht
Gift of the Estate of Janice B. Habicht, 2015.124.1 (c) 2015 Connecticut Historical Society

William H. Habicht

American, 1919 - 2011
BiographyHe was the son of Frank Habicht and Winifred Morley and was born February 10, 1919 in Buchanan, Michigan. He graduated from Cornell in 1940 as a mechanical engineer where he enrolled in the Army Officer Training Porgram and graduted a 2nd Lieutenant in Army Ordnance. He worked for Hamilton Standard as a test engineer, as a technical representative for the USA aircraft manufacturer's association, and assisted in the development of the company from a "propellers only" company into a diversified supplier of aerospace systems. in 1953 he married Janice Esther Barker of East Hartford, Conn.
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