Willard Frederick Rockwell

1888 - 1978  (90 years)

• Name	Willard Frederick Rockwell
  Birth	31 Mar 1888	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 Oct 1978	Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania
  Person ID	I56995	Scudder
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2015

  
  

  Father	Frederick Joshua Rockwell
  Mother	Catherine Celia Herr
  Family ID	F20349	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Clara Whitcomb Thayer,   b. 17 Aug 1889, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 31 Oct 1965, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	Jun 1908
  Children	1. Katherine Thayer Rockwell   2. Janet Ella Rockwell   3. Willard Frederick Rockwell, Jr.   4. Margaret Eleanor Rockwell   5. Elizabeth Rockwell
  Family ID	F20350	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Willard was an American businessman who helped shape and name what eventually became the Rockwell International company. He was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 1919, bought his own business which he transformed. While running the business that would become Rockwell-Standard, He was also a rising executive at another company, Equitable Meter and Manufacturing Company, where he became President in 1925. He later purchased this company and renamed it Rockwell Manufacturing Company. In 1966 Rockwell-Standard acquired a larger competitor, North American Aviation, becoming North American Rockwell Corporation, and in 1973 Rockwell's two companies, North American Rockwell and Rockwell Manufacturing Company, merged to become Rockwell International.