Willem Albert Scholten
Dutch industrialist
Willem Albert Scholten (6 October 1819 – 1 May 1895) was a Dutch industrialist and landowner. He established the potato starch factory Eureka in Foxhol which laid the foundation of an industrial empire.2
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Born Oct 6, 1819, died May 1, 1892.1
About
Scholten would own 24 factories in Europe. He owned large plots of land in Drenthe for peat extraction, and was one of the founders of what would become the Holland America Line. In Groningen, Scholten built the Scholtenhuis, a large residential house on the Grote Markt, the main square, opposite the City Hall.
From Wikipedia’s article on Willem Albert Scholten, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2
Companies
- Scholten-concernFounder8
Career
Occupation: architect, entrepreneur.4
- Date not recordedFounded Scholten-concern3
Personal life
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