Robert L. Sumwalt (entrepreneur)

Robert Llewellyn Sumwalt Jr. (29 December 1927 – 11 June 2016) was an American entrepreneur and businessman who had a successful career as an engineer and general contractor, concentrating on commercial building.[1]

Biography

He was born to engineer and academic Robert L. Sumwalt and Caroline Causey on December 29, 1927 in Columbia, South Carolina.[2]

In 1949, he graduated from the University of South Carolina,[3] where his father then headed the engineering school, and in 1950 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a MSci.[3][4] Sumwalt launched his engineering career at DuPont's offices in Camden, South Carolina. He later founded McCrory-Sumwalt Construction Co.[5] and later Sumwalt Construction Co. He retired from his position as President in 2003. [6]

On March 8, 1952 he married Joyce Mills[3][7] in Christ Church near the bride's home in Georgetown, Washington DC.[7] Elizabeth S. Clark and Robert L. Sumwalt III are their two children.[7]

References
  1. "Robert Llewellyn Sumwalt Obituary". Legacy.com. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  2. "Description" Archived 2012-07-07 at Archive.today of "Robert L. Sumwalt Jr. Baby Portrait", P.S. du Pont / Longwood Collection
  3. "Miss Joyce Mills is Bride in Capital; Married to Robert Llewellyn Sumwalt Jr., Ex-Student at MIT, in Georgetown" NYT, March 8, 1952
  4. MIT Giving
  5. EPISCOPAL HOUSING CORP. v. FEDERAL INS. CO.
  6. "Alumni Association to honor eight at Homecoming gala", Times: University of South Carolina, October 23, 2003, p. 2
  7. Dunbar Funerals and Cremations, "Mrs. Joyce Mills Sumwalt"


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