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Aug 12, 2019 · 1944: Edgar Hetteen establishes his first business, Hetteen Hoist & Derrick in Roseau, Minnesota. The business operates from a building that was once a rural dance hall, the Pine Needle Inn. The structure had been moved into Roseau before Hetteen moved in.
Hetteen died on Saturday, February 12, 2011, in a nursing home in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, at the age of 90. Hetteen’s trail to greatness in the snowmobile industry began in 1944, when he opened his first business – called Hetteen Hoist and Derrick – after returning from World War II.
Feb 14, 2011 · Working with farm equipment, he developed an engineer's eye for innovation and invention, despite attaining only an eighth-grade education. He worked in an uncle's machine shop as a teenager, served in the military, then founded Hetteen Hoist and Derrick in the mid-1940s.
Feb 14, 2011 · Edgar Hetteen, who cofounded Polaris Industries and founded Arctic Cat, died Saturday in Grand Rapids. Hetteen's death was reported in an obituary by Rowe Funeral Home.
Feb 15, 2011 · Hetteen died Saturday in Grand Rapids. He was 90. The Roseau native, dubbed “the grandfather of snowmobiling,” had started a farm implement company in Roseau called Hetteen Hoist and Derrick ...
Edgar Hetteen, the Roseau, Minn., native known as the grandfather of the snowmobile industry for co-founding the two main manufacturers still making them in northwest Minnesota, died Saturday in a Grand Rapids, Minn., nursing home. He was 90.
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Feb 15, 2011 · Beginning in the mid-1950s, Hetteen founded, with his brother, Allan, and brother-in-law, David Johnson, what became Polaris, in their hometown of Roseau. A few years later, the self-driven...
