Ancestry of
Willis Carrier

Inventor of Air Conditioning

Willis Haviland Carrier

View famous kin of Willis Haviland Carrier

• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Duane Williams Carrier 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth R. Haviland   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Nov 1876 
  • Birth Location:
  • Angola, Erie, New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Oct 1950 
  • Death Location:
  • New York, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, Erie, New York 
  • Notes: 

  • American inventor of modern air conditioning

    Founder of Carrier Corporation

• Marriages for Willis Haviland Carrier

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  • Spouse:
  • Edith Claire Seymour
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1902

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  • Spouse:
  • Jennie Tifft Martin

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Marsh Wise

• Sources for Willis Haviland Carrier

  • ¹ Federal Census, NY, Erie County, 1910, Buffalo Ward 17, E.D. 166, Sheet 9A, Image 16 of 33.
  • ² Federal Census, NY, Erie County, 1880, Evans, E.D. 92, p. 38, Image 33 of 33.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/02/2017).
  • ⁴ U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925, 24 MAR 1921, Application for Willis Haviland Carrier.
  • ⁵ U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Draft registration for Willis Haviland Carrier.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 44.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 388.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Willis Carrier", (accessed 05/02/2017).