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Wrigley is the son of Alison (Hunter) and William Wrigley III (1933–1999), the grandson of Philip K. Wrigley (1894–1977) and the great-grandson of William Wrigley Jr. (1861–1932). Wrigley graduated from the Phoenix Country Day School in Phoenix, Arizona.
William Wrigley Jr. died on January 26, 1932, at his Phoenix mansion, at age 70. [1] He was stricken by acute indigestion, complicated by a heart attack and apoplexy. [10] He was interred in his custom-designed sarcophagus located in the tower of the Wrigley Memorial & Botanical Gardens near his beloved home on California's Catalina Island.
Per the Daily Mail, she reportedly dated William “Beau” Wrigley Jr., who is heir to the Wrigley gum fortune, in 2017. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. In Other News. Finance. Finance.
The company was founded on April 1, 1891, in Chicago, Illinois by William Wrigley Jr. Wrigley's gum was traditionally made out of chicle, sourced largely from Central America. In 1952, in response to Decree 900 , land reforms attempting to end feudal working conditions for peasant farmers in Guatemala , Wrigley's discontinued purchasing chicle ...
In 1980, the Wisconsin Department of Revenue (WDR) decided that the in-state activities of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company in selling and supplying retailers with chewing gum exceeded limits defined by Congress in 1961 that exempted foreign corporations from franchise and income taxes in a state as long as their activities were limited to soliciting customers.
Wrigley was a 1954 graduate of Yale College, where he was manager of the Yale football team. He was first married in 1957 to Alison Hunter. They had three children, Alison Elizabeth, Philip Knight, and William Jr., before their marriage ended in divorce in 1969. The following year in a ceremony on Catalina island, he married Joan Georgine Fisher.
A touching tribute. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden named his 8-month-old baby boy Beau after his late brother. Meet Joe Biden’s Family: His Wives, Kids, Grandkids and More Read article ...
William Wrigley may refer to: William Wrigley Jr. (1861–1932), American founder of William Wrigley Jr. Company (1st generation confectionery magnate) William Wrigley III (1933–1999), 3rd generation American confectionery magnate