Walter D. Behlen

(1905-1994) born near Columbus. Manufacturing executive, self-taught engineer, co-founder of Behlen Manufacturing Company known for design and manufacture of agricultural equipment products such as grain bins, the tractor power-steering unit, a tractor gearbox and grain dryers, a philanthropist, recipient of 1968 Horatio Alger Award. Consult Time, November 3, 1958, pp. 87-88 and William H. McDaniel, Walt Behlen's Universe (University of Nebraska Regents, 1973) and Columbus Telegram, July 8, 1986, pp. B-4, B-5.

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