1. William Bronk was a veteran of World War II and a businessman.
12 Facts About William Bronk
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William Bronk ran it for 30 years in Hudson Falls, New York.
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William Bronk was born in 1918 in a house on Lower Main Street in Fort Edward, New York.
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William Bronk had an older brother, Sherman, who died young, and two older sisters, Jane and Betty.
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William Bronk attended Dartmouth College for higher education, being admitted at age 16.
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William Bronk took graduate classes at Harvard for another semester.
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William Bronk was drafted into the Army soon after the United States entered World War II.
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William Bronk was honorably discharged from the Army in October 1945.
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William Bronk first taught English at Union College, Schenectady, New York.
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William Bronk left Union in June 1946 and returned to Hudson Falls.
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In January 1947 William Bronk took over management of the William Bronk Coal and Lumber Company, which he had inherited in 1941 when his father died unexpectedly.
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William Bronk said that the poems emerged in his mind as he went through the business of the day.