Robert L. Sumwalt (entrepreneur) explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Robert Llewellyn Sumwalt Obituary. Legacy.com. 31 March 2017.
  2. http://cdm268001.cdmhost.com/cdm/singleitem/collection/p268001coll8/id/3463/rec/5 "Description"
  3. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/03/09/93351629.pdf "Miss Joyce Mills is Bride in Capital; Married to Robert Llewellyn Sumwalt Jr., Ex-Student at MIT, in Georgetown"
  4. https://giving.mit.edu/recognition/list-donors.dyn?year=2010&groupId=G&subgroupId=CE MIT Giving
  5. http://www.leagle.com/xmlResult.aspx?xmldoc=1977900269SC631_1793.xml&docbase=CSLWAR1-1950-1985 EPISCOPAL HOUSING CORP. v. FEDERAL INS. CO.
  6. http://www.sc.edu/usctimes/PDFs/2003/Oct_23_2003.pdf "Alumni Association to honor eight at Homecoming gala"
  7. Dunbar Funerals and Cremations, "Mrs. Joyce Mills Sumwalt"