Woodward Governor Co.
“39 JA Companies Are Organized” – 1968
Source: Rockford Morning Star Oct. 15, 1968
“Woodward Governor wins supplier contract” – 2008
Source: Rockford Register Star July 21, 2008
Woodward, Amos Walter
1829-1919
Source: 75 Years of Looking Forward: Woodward Governor Company, Rockford, Illinois
issued first patent 5/31/1870
Source: www.virtualrockford.com/history-of-rockford-illinois.asp
36th Annual RIAA Banquet – 1973, Henrici’s
Source: Copy of Program courtesy of Jack Rinaldo
King and Conrads – Investment Securities
Source: Rockford Register-Republic Sept. 4, 1944
LaVerne Widell – Aviation Cadet Robert Petersen – 1944
Source: Rockford Register-Republic January 29, 1944
Source: Rockford Register-Republic January 29, 1944
Woodward Governor – 1941, Navy
Source: 75 Years of Looking Forward; Woodward Governor Co., Rockford, IL
Woodward Prime Mover – 1956
Source: Woodward Governor Co. Employee News Supplement, Verticle File
Schelin, Carl O.
Born in Norrkoping, Sweden.
Emigrated from Sweden with family in 1928.
Son of Elin and Otto Schelin.
Married in 1945, at Lincoln Army Base, Lincoln, Nebraska.
WWII veteran. Second Lieutenant, an Air Force pilot.
1939 graduate of Rockford Central High School.
He attended Rockford College for 2 years and graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology with a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering BSME.
He was employed by Woodward Governor Co. and a member of Roscoe United Methodist Church.
He died Dec. 3, 2014, in Bonifay Nursing Home, in Bonifay, FL.
Olson Funeral Home; Roscoe United Methodist Church; Burial in Scandinavian Cemetery,
Source: Rockford Register Star Dec. 8, 2014