William Crysler was born on the Canadian side of the Niagara Falls in June 1888 before moving to the United States as a young man. At the 1904 St. Louis Olympics dozens of handicap non-medal track and field events were contested alongside the “true” Olympic events. Crysler competed in three such events, including the 100 yards and 220 yards interscholastic handicap races for boys. By his late teens he was living in Caruthersville, Missouri where he worked in the automobile business before running a grocery business for many years. In his mid-50s he established the WM Crysler Implement Company in Hayti, Missouri.
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