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William Sylvester Harley (December 29, 1880 – September 18, 1943) was a co-founder of the Harley-Davidson Motor Company.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Find A Grave )〕 ==Early life== He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1880, and received a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1907. He co-founded Harley-Davidson with Arthur Davidson in 1903 and served as chief engineer until his death in 1943.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Company history )〕 Harley was the son of William Harley Sr. and Mary Smith from Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England who emigrated to the United States in 1860.〔(Jean Davidson - Harley-Davidson. )〕 In 1910 he married Anna Jachthuber, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. He is buried at the Holy Cross Cemetery and Mausoleum in Milwaukee,〔 and was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1998.〔 In 2003, a Harley-Davidson statue was unveiled in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, to commemorate the centenary of the famous motorcycle company. William Harley, the father of the company's co-founder William Sylvester Harley, had been born in Victoria Street, Littleport, in 1835, before emigrating to the United States in 1859. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William S. Harley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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