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Walter H. Gahagan : ウィキペディア英語版 | Walter H. Gahagan Walter H. Gahagan (ca. 1869-1931) was an engineer and general contractor who owned a construction business based in Brooklyn, New York, and a shipyard in Arverne, Queens. Among other projects, his firm worked on the Lackawanna Cut-Off, an immense railroad project in northwestern New Jersey. ==Personal== Born in Ohio, Gahagan married Lillian Rose Mussen, a schoolteacher who had grown up in Wisconsin. In 1897, they moved to Brooklyn and soon had twin boys, Frederick and William. In the summer of 1900, the family moved temporarily to Boonton, New Jersey, where Gahagan's company was building a reservoir. Their daughter, Helen, was born on November 20, just before the family moved back to Brooklyn. In 1902, another daughter, Lillian, was born, and the family moved to a large brownstone house at 231 Lincoln Place in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood. In 1910, their last child, Walter Jr., was born. In 1914, Gahagan bought a vacation home in Fairlee, Vermont, and the family thereafter spent parts of each summer there. In 1931, the year Gahagan died, the family was living at 17 Prospect Park West.〔 Helen Gahagan Douglas became an actress and a pioneering politician who served as a three-term U.S. Congresswoman from California and who lost the 1950 race for U.S. Senate to Richard Nixon.〔 Walter Jr. graduated from Princeton University in 1932 and Columbia University law school in 1935, competed in discus and exhibition football〔Selected as a reserve to a team made up of star graduates of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, Walter Jr. suited up but did not play in the game, held on August 8, 1932, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. 〕 at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, then took over the family business, which subsequently helped build the launching pad for the Apollo space missions and Kennedy and Newark airports.
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