of heart failure in Milwaukee on September 18, 1943, at the age of 62. Legacy He was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2003, a Harley-Davidson statue was unveiled in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, to commemorate the centenary of the famous motorcycle company. William Harley, the father of the company's co-founder William Sylvester Harley, had been born in Victoria Street, Littleport, in 1835, before emigrating to the United States in 1859. Labor Hall of Honor Because Harley, Arthur Davidson, William A. Davidson, and Walter Davidson "used and believed in its products and relied on the dedication of its employees to produce quality motorcycles", the four men were inducted into the Labor Hall of Honor. References External links 1880 births 1943 deaths 20th-century American businesspeople American chief executives in the automobile industry American manufacturing businesspeople American mechanical engineers American people of English descent Businesspeople from Milwaukee Dud Perkins Award winners Engineers from Wisconsin Harley-Davidson designers Harley-Davidson executives University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni