Early Years and Marriage
Honeywell spent his childhood growing up in Wabash, Indiana, and in Florida. He held various jobs in his younger years, including working in the citrus and bicycle business, and in his father’s Wabash mill. He graduated from Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1891.
In 1899, Honeywell married Eugenia Hubbard Nixon, who was also a native of Wabash. Correction to above sentence by rachristia 16 Nov 2012: Mark Honeywell was married twice. His first wife, Olive May Lutz, whom he married in 1899, died in 1939 as the result of a fall while on a boating excursion in Florida. In 1942 Mark married Eugenia (Hubbard) Nixon, the widow of Donald Nixon, a newspaperman from Wabash, Indiana. Eugenia died in Wabash in February 1974, about ten years after Mark's death in Indianapolis in September 1964. Ironically, the fire that killed her was determined to have been caused by the failure of a Honeywell thermostat.
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