| 词条 | Charles Henry Parr |
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Early life and educationParr was born March 18, 1868 in Wisconsin, the son of Martha and John Parr. He had five siblings. He attended high school at Dodgeville, Wisconsin before attaining a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he met his future partner Charles Walter Hart.[1] Both men graduated with honors.[3] CareerAfter graduation, and while still in Madison, Parr and Harr established a small engine company. They then moved to Charles City, Iowa, where Hart was born,[3][5] and started the Hart-Parr Company. In 1902, they developed a gasoline engine for tractors, and one year later invented the first known kerosene-run engine, which needed just 50% of the fuel that ran the gasoline engine.[2] Also in 1903, they built the country's first internal combustion engine.[3] For a time Hart-Parr tractors were a leading type, sold in the US and other countries.[1] During World War I, the company also made shells for the army.[4] Parr left the company in 1923 to work for the Street Sweeper Company in Elgin, Illinois,[5] but returned and stayed with Hart-Parr and the successor Oliver Farm Equipment Company until his death in 1941.[6] Personal lifeHe married Gertrude Gates of Beloit, Wisconsin in August 1898. They had a son and five daughters.[1] He served on the library and school boards and was a leader of the First Congregationalist Church. He was also an active member of the Freemasons, including being high priest of the Royal Arch Masons and commander of the Knights Templar. During a family vacation to Los Angeles, California, Parr died on June 10, 1941. Gertrude died months earlier on February 17, 1941. They are buried at Riverside Cemetery, Charles City, Iowa.[1] His home, the Charles Henry Parr House, in Charles City, Iowa is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[7] References1. ^1 2 {{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/32655059/?terms=Charles%2BParr%2BIowa%2BOR%2BHart |title=Charles H. Parr, Tractor Inventor, Died |date=June 18, 1941 |newspaper=The Nashua Reporter |location=Nashua, Iowa|page=3|accessdate=May 29, 2017|via=newspapers.com|subscription=yes}} 2. ^1 {{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/38202702/?terms=Charles%2BParr%2BIowa|title=Charles H. Parr, Pioneer in Tractor Manufacturing Dies |date=June 11, 1941 |newspaper=The Mason City Globe-Gazette |location=Mason City, Iowa|page=1|accessdate=May 29, 2017|via=newspapers.com|subscription=yes}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=https://www.asme.org/about-asme/who-we-are/engineering-history/landmarks/190-hart-parr-tractor |title=Hart Parr Tractor - 1903: Earliest known internal-combustion-engined agricultural tractor in the United States |website=The American Society of Mechanical Engineers |accessdate=May 29, 2017}} 4. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/19542107/?terms=Charles%2BParr%2BIowa%2BOR%2BHart |title=Manufacture War Shells: Hart-Parr Machinery Nearly Completed for $1,500,000 Order for Army Shells|date=December 2, 1915 |newspaper=The Nashua Reporter |location=Nashua, Iowa|page=1|accessdate=May 29, 2017|via=newspapers.com|subscription=yes}} 5. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/128906727/?terms=Charles%2BParr%2BIowa%2BOR%2BHart |title=Founder Leaves Hart-Parr Firm at Charles City |date=November 25, 1923 |newspaper=The Des Moines Register |location=Des Moines, Iowa|page=45|accessdate=May 29, 2017|via=newspapers.com|subscription=yes}} 6. ^1 2 {{cite book|author=C.H. Wendel|title=Oliver Hart-Parr|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ofz6pO3UqFAC&pg=PA57|date=29 November 2011|publisher=Krause Publications|isbn=0-87349-929-8|page=57}} 7. ^{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=80001451}}|title=Charles Henry Parr House|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=May 29, 2017|author=M.H. Bowers}} with {{NRHP url|id=80001451|photos=y|title=photos}} Further reading
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