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George Skakel ( / ˈskeɪ.kəl / SKAY-kel; July 16, 1892 – October 3, 1955) was an American businessman. He founded the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, part of SGL Carbon, and was the father of Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert F. Kennedy .
Ethel Skakel Kennedy ( Chicago, 11 de abril de 1928) es miembro de la famosa familia Kennedy al haber contraído matrimonio con Robert F. Kennedy . Biografía. Ethel Skakel nació en Chicago de madre católica, Ann Brannack, y padre protestante y de ascendencia checoslovaca, George Skakel.
Skakel's grandfather George was the founder of Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, a coal company that was one of the largest and wealthiest privately held corporations in the United States. The Skakel family lived in the affluent neighborhood of Belle Haven in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Ethel Kennedy (née Skakel / ˈ s k eɪ. k ə l / SKAY-kel born April 11, 1928) is an American human rights advocate. She is the widow of U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy, a sister-in-law of President John F. Kennedy, and the sixth child of George and Ann (Brannack) Skakel.
17 de jul. de 2006 · In 1938, George Skakel, a self-made millionaire and founder of the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, paid Frances Simmons $160,000, a sum equal to about $2 million today, for a parcel of her...
20 de nov. de 2013 · The Skakel fortune goes back to Michael’s paternal grandparents, George and Ann Skakel, who died in 1957 in a plane crash, after George had built the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation into a...
Learn about the life and family of Ethel Skakel Kennedy, the wife of Robert F. Kennedy and mother of eleven children. Find out how she grew up in a wealthy coal family, met and married Bobby, and became involved in social causes.
