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Article: W. R. TIMKEN, FORMER TIMKEN COMPANY CHAIRMAN, DIES
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- January 26, 1995
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CANTON, Ohio, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- W. R. Timken, former chairman, president and CEO of The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR), died today in Canton, Ohio, at age 84.
"The Timken Company, our family and his many friends mourn the loss of this remarkable man," said W. R. Timken, Jr., chairman - board of directors of The Timken Company. "My father and his brother Henry assumed leadership of the company as young men in their early thirties after the death of their father H. H. Timken, in 1940.
"For the next 47 years until his retirement from the board of directors in 1987, my father used his great intellect and vision to lead The Timken Company from a small domestic ...