Eric Wickman


Carl Eric Wickman was the founder of the Greyhound Lines, Inc.

Wickman was born Martis Jerk at Martisgrden, a family farm located near the small village of Limbck in the parish of Vmhus, 15160km north of Mora in the province Dalarna, Sweden. He was the eldest of five sibling. The distinctly Dalecarlian name Martis Jerk literally means Martins Eric or Eric of Martis farm. His father Victor Wretman had earlier used the surmane Wickman when he had worked in the United States. In 1905, when Eric arrived in the United States as a Swedish emigrant, he changed his name to Carl Eric Wickman.

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