Mar 24
Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Dies
Posted by Slobokan @ 20:29 · 123 words · print
Harold W. McGraw Jr., who as leader of McGraw-Hill, his family’s publishing business, helped build it into a billion-dollar enterprise in the 1970s and ’80s, died on Wednesday at his home in Darien, Conn. He was 92.
His son Harold W. McGraw III, who is now chief executive of the company, announced his father’s death, attributing it to natural causes.
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In 1940, he married Anne Per-Lee. She died in 2002. Besides his son Harold, who is known as Terry and lives in Darien, Mr. McGraw is survived by another son, Robert, of Greenwich, Conn., who serves on the company’s board; a daughter, Suzanne McGraw, also of Darien; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Another son, Thomas, died in 2006.
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