User:Polleyda11/Foster Gunnison Sr

Foster Gunnison was an entrepreneur in the prefabricated housing industry.

Early Life and Education

 * Foster Gunnison was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 8, 1896
 * Family owned the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper
 * Attended Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana
 * Attended St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York

Early Career

 * Trained as a journalist
 * Worked for Life Saver candy??
 * Purchased a lighting company that ended up doing the lighting for the facade of the Empire State Building and interior lighting in parts of the Rockefeller Center
 * Got involved with American Homes, Inc. a company that made prefabricated homes and was backed, in part by industrialist Owen D. Young