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Intro | American businessman | |
A.K.A. | Dalsey | |
A.K.A. | Dalsey | |
Places | United States of America | |
was | Businessperson | |
Work field | Business | |
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Birth | 14 October 1914, Illinois, USA | |
Death | 10 October 1994Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, California, USA (aged 80 years) | |
Star sign | Libra |
Biography
Adrian Dalsey (October 14, 1914, Illinois - October 10, 1994, Walnut Creek, California) was a co-founder of DHL, a shipping company (Dalsey was the "D" in DHL).
He was born in Illinois on October 14, 1914. He attended Wheaton College (Illinois), but later dropped out. He married Marjorie Schutt Dalsey and they had two children together, a boy named Jonathan and daughter Jennifer. He also fathered another son, Harry Dalsey after divorcing his wife Marjorie. Harry admitted to killing Guy Broomfield, the then partner of his mother and brother of Shirley Ann Field, in 1999, and plea bargained it down to manslaughter. Adrian Dalsey married Harry's mother Annie, and they were together until he died in 1994, in Walnut Creek, California.
DHL
In 1969, he co-founded DHL alongside business partners Larry Hillblom and Robert Lynn. He traveled to southeast Asia, Micronesia, Hawaii, Guam, and other various parts of Asia, until he sold his share of DHL in 1980.