is the current board president of the Owen L. Coon Foundation.
served as president of the Owen L. Coon Foundation.
to end yearly funding of the Hardy Scholarships program, but it continues to operate.
an offer by CNA Financial to pay $32 per share for General Finance Corporation stock owned by The Foundation. The Foundation owned 111,000 shares, worth $3.55 million.
serves as president of the Owen L. Coon Foundation.
the Owen L. Coon Foundation Fund at Northwestern University by making an initial $25,000 contribution. The fund would pool Foundation money destined for future Northwestern projects.
serves as president of the Foundation.
dies of leukemia.
Intercontinental Engineers and real estate for the Foundation.
of the Foundation is held at the Coon house in Evanston.
is incorporated in Illinois.
through a conservator, sues Owen challenging their 1929 divorce. (The lawsuit was settled with the Coon Estate in 1950.)
at 184 West Lake Street in Chicago to serve as General Finance's new home.
program is established, benefitting graduates of Rantoul High School who attend Northwestern.
purchases control of the Wacker Corporation, which owned title to the forty-five-story Civic Opera House at 20 South Wacker Drive in Chicago.
involved in war production. They are: Hanlon-Waters of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Climax En, gineering Company, of Clinton, Iowa; McAlear Manufacturing Company, of Chicago; Bi'Metallic Products Corporation, of Chicago; Simmons Manufacturing Company, of Ashland, Ohio, and Morrow Manufacturing Company, of Wellston, Ohio.
Alumni Medal by Northwestern University.
move from Glencoe to 1201 Sheridan Road in Evanston.
the Chicago Terminal National Bank, a small bank west of the Chicago River.
president of the American Finance Conference. (He was reelected in 1938.)
shares are traded on the Chicago Stock Exchange for the first time.
to sit on Northwestern University's Board of Trustees.
officially merges with General Finance Corporation.
Scholarships in Forensics are established at Northwestern University.
to adopt Louise's son, Harry Harold Walker. He takes the name Harry Harold Coon.
to run the Detroit-based General Finance Company and serve as president.
move from Evanston to 150 Park Avenue in Glencoe.
Owen and Louise's only child together, is born.
Louise Dowdell Walker in Evanston.
Divorce decree entered in Cook County Superior Court.
form a partnership called the Evanston Motor Acceptance Company. (The firm changed its name to the Motor Acceptance Company in 1928.)
Owen and Alice's only child, is born.
Alice Elizabeth Wright in Evanston. 1919: Owen graduates from Northwestern University Law School. 1919-1924: Owen practices law in downtown Chicago.
examination and briefly enlists in the Navy. His parents move to Evanston, Illinois.
from law school to operate a farm in Two Buttes, Colorado.
from Northwestern University with a bachelor's degree from the College of Liberal Arts. He enters Northwestern University Law School.
from Rantoul High School and enters Northwestern University.
of Europe with Rose following his freshman year at Rantoul High School.
the couple's second son, is born in Rantoul.
the couple's first son, is born in Rantoul, Illinois.
Rose Rike in LeRoy.
Owen's mother, born in LeRoy, Illinois.
Owen Coon's father, born in Higginsville, Illinois.
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