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George Skakel ( / ˈskeɪ.kəl / SKAY-kel; July 16, 1892 – October 3, 1955) was an American businessman. He founded the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, part of SGL Carbon, and was the father of Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert F. Kennedy .
Skakel's grandfather George was the founder of Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, a coal company that was one of the largest and wealthiest privately held corporations in the United States. The Skakel family lived in the affluent neighborhood of Belle Haven in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Jul 17, 2006 · In 1938, George Skakel, a self-made millionaire and founder of the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, paid Frances Simmons $160,000, a sum equal to about $2 million today, for a parcel of her...
Nov 20, 2013 · The Skakel fortune goes back to Michael’s paternal grandparents, George and Ann Skakel, who died in 1957 in a plane crash, after George had built the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation into a main...
Jan 7, 2003 · Rushton Skakel, whose son Michael was convicted last June of the 1975 killing of a neighbor, Martha Moxley, in Greenwich, Conn., died on Thursday in Hobe Sound, Fla. He was 79.
Jan 5, 2003 · Skakel, whose son Michael was convicted in June of a 1975 murder, died in Hobe Sound, Fla., Thursday after a long battle with a brain illness that led to frontal lobe dementia, his lawyer,...
All four occupants were killed, among them George Skakel Sr., founder of Great Lakes Carbon Corporation and his wife Ann. Probable cause: The probable cause of this accident was the loss of the aircraft's empennage as a result of an in-flight fuel explosion in the aft section of the fuselage.
