Chester Thordarson

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Chester H. Thordarson (born Hjörtur Þórðarson) (1867 - 1945) was an inventor who eventually held nearly a hundred patents. He immigrated to the United States from Iceland in 1873. During his lifetime he founded a successful manufacturing company in Chicago, Illinois and established a vacation retreat on Rock Island, an island off the tip Wisconsin's Door Peninsula. Several years after his death Rock Island was designated Rock Island State Park. His company is now called Thordarson Meissner, Inc., and has locations in southern Illinois (Mt Carmel) and in Henderson, Nevada.