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Feb 15, 2011 · 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...
Oct 10, 2016 · A Roseau County native, Johnson, along with boyhood friend and brother-in-law Edgar Hetteen, started the Hetteen Hoist and Derrick company in Roseau in 1945, making straw choppers and other...
Feb 15, 2011 · It is with great sadness that we relay word of the passing of the legendary Edgar Hetteen, one of the co-founders of Polaris and such a long-time driving force in the snowmobile industry that he is commonly called “The Godfather of Snowmobiling.” Edgar died on Saturday, February 12. He was 90.
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.
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.
Feb 14, 2011 · Edgar died on Saturday, February 12. He was 90. "Edgar was an icon, a snowmobile pioneer and visionary who helped grow a seed of a sport and industry into a thriving pursuit and business that people love worldwide," said Polaris President and COO Bennett Morgan.
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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...
