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  1. Fred Chase Koch ( / koʊk / KOHK; September 23, 1900 – November 17, 1967) was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded the oil refinery firm that later became Koch Industries, a privately held company which—under the principal ownership and leadership of Koch's sons Charles and David —would be listed by Forbes as the second-larg...

  2. Fred C Koch was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur, who was a pioneer in the oil-extraction technology. Check out this biography to know about his childhood, family, personal life, career, and achievements.

  3. www.forbes.com › profile › kochKoch family - Forbes

    Fred C. Koch started what became America's second largest private company, Koch Industries, when he cofounded the Wood River Oil and Refining Company in 1940.

  4. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons.

  5. Jan 19, 2016 · Fred Koch, the patriarch of the family, was an expert in building oil refineries, and he and a friend named William Rhodes Davis proposed building one in Germany during 1934, '35, that period...

  6. Contents. Fred C. Koch. American inventor and businessman. Learn about this topic in these articles: Charles and David Koch. In Charles and David Koch: Early life and business activities.

  7. Jul 30, 2019 · Mr. Koch is the author of The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present which was published by Pensylvania State University Press in 1977. It is one of the first English-language complete histories of the Volga Germans.

  8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Koch_familyKoch family - Wikipedia

    Fred C. Koch (1900–1967), American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded the oil refinery firm that later became Koch Industries and was one of the founding members of the John Birch Society. Mary Robinson Koch (1907–1990), wife of Fred C. and eponym of the company's namesake tanker vessel Mary R. Koch

  9. Dec 5, 2012 · Bill and Fred Koch spent the 1980s and 1990s locked in a legal battle between their better known billionaire brothers Charles and David. Now, a decade after settling permanently, the lesser-known...

  10. May 6, 2024 · The brothers’ father, Fred C. Koch, made his early fortune from his invention of a new technique of thermal cracking, by which petroleum is converted into lighter oils and gasoline. Charles and David were educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), receiving master’s degrees in engineering in 1959 and 1963 ...