Dick Wells

**Preston Albert Wells Jr.** (an haife shi **Richard Wells** ; 8 ga Oktoba, 1922)&nbsp;– Satumba 2, 2003) injiniyan sinadarai ne na Amurka, hamshakin ɗan kasuwa, mai saka hannun jari a harkar gidaje, kuma hamshakin mai kiwon shanu . Ya kasance shugaban Kamfanin Las Olas, mamallakin Otal ɗin Riverside da Rush Creek Ranch, kuma memba na kwamitin gudanarwa na Gidauniyar Heritage .   Memba na Jam'iyyar Republican, ya yi aiki a Hukumar Haraji ta Florida daga 1979 zuwa 1987.

An haife shi kuma ya girma a Chicagoland, Wells ya kammala karatunsa da digirin farko a fannin injiniya daga MIT kuma ya shiga Rundunar Sojojin Ruwa ta Amurka a wannan shekarar. A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, an tura shi zuwa Pacific kuma ya yi yaƙi da ƙarfin Axis a Yaƙin Iwo Jima . Da ya dawo gida daga yaƙin, Wells ya yi aiki a Kamfanin Quaker Oats a matsayin babban injiniyan sinadarai kafin ya karɓi iko da kasuwancin gidaje na iyalinsa tare da faɗaɗa shi a Kudancin Florida . A lokacin rasuwarsa, shi ne mafi girman mai filaye a Las Olas Isles .   Wells, babban mai ba da gudummawa a siyasa, ya ba da gudummawar miliyoyin daloli ga ƙungiyoyi masu ra'ayin mazan jiya tsawon shekaru da dama kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban Cibiyar Nazarin Intercollegiate daga 2002 zuwa 2003.

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
An haifi Preston Albert Wells Jr. Richard Wells a ranar 8 ga Oktoba, 1922, a Chicago, Illinois, ga Preston A. Wells Sr., ɗan Thomas E. Wells, da Lillian Shedd, jikanyar John G. Shedd .  Ya girma a Winnetka, Illinois kuma ya kammala karatunsa a Makarantar Ranar Kasa ta North Shore . Wells ya sami digirinsa na farko a fannin injiniyan sinadarai daga Cibiyar Fasaha ta Massachusetts . 

A shekarar 1935, Wells ya ziyarci Salzburg, Austria, lokacin da yake ƙarƙashin mulkin Austrofascist, kuma ya koma gida Chicago a cikin jirgin RMS  tare da iyayensa, Giorgio Polacco, da Edith Mason . 

## Aiki da hidimar soja
A lokacin da yake halartar MIT, Wells ya shiga rundunar sojojin ruwa ta Amurka kafin ya shiga rundunar sojojin ruwa ta Amurka a shekarar 1943. A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, ya fafata da Daular Japan a wasan kwaikwayo na Pacific a Yaƙin Iwo Jima .  Bayan mika wuya ga Japan, Wells ya yi ritaya daga aiki a matsayin Kyaftin, bayan ya sami lambar yabo ta Tauraron Tagulla, lambar yabo ta Kyakkyawan Ɗabi'a ta Marine Corps, lambar yabo ta Nasara ta Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, lambar yabo ta Yaƙin Asiatic-Pacific, da kuma Ribbon na Yaƙi saboda ayyukansa.  Ɗan uwansa na farko, a lokacin Laftanar Greeley Wells na Farko, wanda ke riƙe da Bataliya ta 2, rundunar sojojin ruwa ta 28, ya yi aiki a tsibirin tare da Wells kuma yana cikin waɗanda suka ɗaga tutar Amurka a Iwo Jima .  Bayan dogon bincike a faɗin tsibirin, Wells ya sami ɗan uwansa Greeley a wani ofishin umarni a Dutsen Suribachi, yana mai bayyana binciken a matsayin "ɓangare mafi haɗari na zamana a Iwo Jima ".  Bayan dawowa gida daga yaƙin, Wells ya yi aiki a Kamfanin Quaker Oats a matsayin babban injiniyan sashen sinadarai. 

Wells ya sami ikon mallakar Kamfanin Las Olas a shekarar 1972. Kamfanin ya mallaki Otal ɗin Riverside da ke Fort Lauderdale da sauran manyan kadarori a faɗin gundumar Broward, Florida .     Ta hanyar kamfanin, ya mallaki kusan kashi 60% na filaye a kan titin Las Olas Boulevard .  

A watan Janairun 1979, Gwamna Bob Graham ya naɗa Wells a matsayin memba na Hukumar Haraji ta Florida .   

A mafi yawancin rayuwarsa ta girma, Wells shine babban mai mallakar Rush Creek Ranch da ke Nebraska ; wanda kakansa ya kafa a 1890. 

Tsawon shekaru da yawa, Wells ya ba da gudummawa ga Jam'iyyar Republican kuma ya goyi bayan manufofin masu ra'ayin mazan jiya. Ya kasance memba na kwamitin amintattu na Gidauniyar Heritage tsawon kusan shekaru 30.   An nada "Preston A. Wells, Jr. Babban Jami'in Bincike, Cibiyar Manufofin Lafiya da Walwala" da "Preston A. Wells Jr. Day" don girmama shi.  

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