Morris H. Knudsen

(1862-1943) lived near Newman Grove, Madison County. Farmer, contractor, co-founder in 1912 of Morrison-Knudsen Company, CEO until death, the Morrison-Knudsen Company was one of six companies that built Hoover Dam and during the 1940s emerged into one of the largest construction firms in the world. Consult Newman Grove /NE/ Reporter obituary, December 1, 1943, p. 1 and National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol 35 (1949) 378-379.

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