Editing Walter Chrysler (section)

==Ancestry==
Walter Chrysler's father, Henry (Hank) Chrysler, was a Canadian, of German, English and Dutch ancestry. He was an [[American Civil War]] veteran who was a [[Railroad engineer|locomotive engineer]] for the [[Kansas Pacific Railway]] and its successor, the [[Union Pacific Railroad]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Chrysler|Sparkes|1950|pp=18–19}}.</ref> Walter's mother was born in [[Rocheport, Missouri]], and was also of [[German American|German]] ancestry.<ref>{{Harvnb|Chrysler|Sparkes|1950|pp=14, 23}}.</ref> Walter Chrysler was not especially interested in his remote ancestors; his collaborative author Boyden Sparkes says that one genealogical researcher reported "that he had a sea-going [[Dutch people|Dutchman]] among his forebears; one Captain Jan Gerritsen Van Dalsen", but that "as to that, Walter Chrysler made it plain to me he was in accord with [[Jimmy Durante]]: 'Ancestors? I got millions of 'em!'."<ref>{{Harvnb|Chrysler|Sparkes|1950|p=206}}.</ref> However, he thought enough of genealogy to include in his autobiography that his father, Hank Chrysler, "Canadian born, had been brought from [[Chatham, Ontario]], to Kansas City when he was only five or six. His forebears had founded Chatham; the family stock was [[Germans|German]]; eight generations back of me there had come to America one who spelled his name Greisler, a [[German Palatines|German Palatine]]. He was one of a group of [[Protestants]] who had left their German homeland in the [[Rhine|Rhine Valley]], gone to the [[Netherlands]], thence to England and embarked, finally, from [[Plymouth]] for New York."

Other researchers have since traced his ancestors in more detail. Karin Holl's monograph on the subject<ref>{{Harvnb|Holl|1984}}</ref> traces the family tree to a Johann Philipp Kreißler, born in 1672, who left Germany for Canada in 1709. Chrysler's ancestors came from the [[Rhineland-Palatinate]] town of [[Guntersblum]]. His family belongs to [[Old Stock Americans]].{{cn|date=August 2024}}