Beman Gates Dawes (January 14, 1870 – May 15, 1953) was a politician and oil executive who served two terms as a Republican Congressman from Ohio. Dawes, a descendant of American Revolution hero Wi...

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William Hartman Woodin (May 27, 1868 – May 3, 1934) was a U.S. industrialist. He served as the Secretary of Treasury under Franklin Roosevelt in 1933. Woodin was closely involved in Jackson and W...

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William Wallace Atterbury (January 31, 1866 – September 20, 1935) was an American Brigadier General during World War I. He was instrumental in reorganizing railroad traffic during the war for more ef...

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Joy Morton (September 27, 1855 – May 10, 1934) founded the Morton Salt Company and The Morton Arboretum. Family and Personal Life Morton grew to manhood in Nebraska City, Nebraska in Nebraska...

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Errett Lobban "E. L." Cord (20 July 1894 - 2 January 1974) was a leader in United States transport during the early and middle 20th century. Cord founded the Cord Corporation in 1929 as a holding...

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Ross Shaw Sterling (February 11, 1875 – March 25, 1949) was a U.S. political figure who was the 31st Governor of Texas, having served a single two-year term between January 20, 1931, and January 17, ...

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Richard Teller Crane (May 15, 1832, at Paterson, New Jersey – January 8, 1912, at Chicago, Illinois), son of Timothy Botchford Crane and Maria Ryerson, was the founder of R.T. Crane & Bro., a Chicago...

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Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow, 1st Baronet, of Homestead (13 January 1842 – 24 January 1932) was a British shipbuilder who started a shipbuilding dynasty, Yarrow Shipbuilders. [edit] Life and caree...

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. Herbert Charles Hoover (August 4, 1903 — July 9, 1969) was the son of President of the United States Herbert Hoover; a successful engineer and businessman; a special envoy of the American governmen...

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Cyrus Stephen Eaton (December 27, 1883 – May 9, 1979) was a Canadian-born investment banker, businessman and philanthropist in the United States, with a career that spanned seventy years. For dec...

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Solicitor Theodore Waterhouse founded the law firm Waterhouse & Co. that is now part of Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP in the City of London.

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Edwin Waterhouse (4 June 1841 – 17 September 1917) was an English accountant. He is best known for having co-founded, with Samuel Lowell Price and William Hopkins Holyland, the accountancy practice o...

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(1856-1930) American Smelting and Refining Company Overview Daniel Guggenheim was one of America’s most powerful business leaders as well as one of the richest men in the world. His fame and fort...

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Harry Frank Guggenheim (August 23, 1890 – January 22, 1971) was a United States businessman, diplomat, publisher, philanthropist, and horseman. Life He was born August 23, 1890 in West End, N...

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Paul Shoup (January 8, 1874 – July 30, 1946) was an American businessman, president and later vice-chairman of the Southern Pacific Railroad in the 1920s and 1930s, a founding board member of the Sta...

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James Alvan Macauley, Sr. was the president of Packard Motor Company from 1916 until 1939. Early life and education Alvan, as he preferred to be called, was born in Wheeling, West Virginia to...

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Myron Charles Taylor (January 18, 1874 – May 5, 1959) was one of the major figures in American life during the first half of the 20th century. He was probably America's leading industrialist, and lat...

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Walter Percy Chrysler (April 2, 1875 – August 18, 1940) was an American machinist, railroad mechanic and manager, automotive industry executive, Freemason, and founder of the Chrysler Corporation. ...

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William Henry Osborn (December 21, 1820–March 2, 1894) was a 19th Century railroad tycoon. Born and educated in Salem, Massachusetts, Osborn became one of the most prominent railroad leaders in the U...

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Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett PC, FRS (23 October 1868–27 December 1930), known as Sir Alfred Mond, Bt, between 1910 and 1928, was a British industrialist, financier and politician. In his l...

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George Fisher Baker (March 27, 1840 – May 2, 1931) was a U.S. financier and philanthropist. In 1924 he provided much of the initial funding for Harvard Business School with a grant for $5 million. In...

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: Who was Alfred P. Sloan Jr.? Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. was born in New Haven, Connecticut, May 23, 1875, the first of five children of Alfred Pritchard Sloan Sr. and Katherine Mead Sloan. His fa...

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He was an American steel magnate. Under his leadership, Bethlehem Steel became the second largest steel maker in the United States, and one of the most important heavy manufacturers in the world. Sch...

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George Lauder was a first cousin and business partner of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, founder and head of Carnegie Steel Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Founder/Builder of the 1893 Columbia Mill (now housing the SC State Museum). Business associate of Aretas Blood of Manchester NH, head of Amoskeag Mfg. Company. Entered St. John's College, Annapolis MD...

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(ENCYCLOPEDIA OF VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHIES, Vol. IV. Published 1915. Transcribed by Chris Davis) Caldwell Hardy, president of the Norfolk National Bank, is descended from an old North Carolina family, whi...

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Elbert Henry Gary (October 8, 1846 – August 15, 1927) was an American lawyer, county judge and corporate officer. He was a key founder of U.S. Steel in 1901, bringing together partners J. P. Morgan, ...

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on the right in profile photo John Ringling North (14 August 1903 - 4 June 1985) was the owner of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from 1937 to 1943 and from 1947 to 1967. In 1967 he s...

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Charles Edward Ringling (December 2, 1863 – December 3, 1926) was one of the Ringling brothers, who owned the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He was in charge of production and greatly ...

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John Nicholas Ringling (May 31, 1866 – December 2, 1936) now is the most well-known of the seven Ringling brothers, five of whom merged the Barnum & Bailey Circus with their own Ringling Brothers Cir...

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Bernard Mannes Baruch (/bəˈruːk/; 1870–1965) was an American financier, stock-market speculator, statesman, and political consultant. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advisin...

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Andrew William Mellon was an American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February 12, 1932. He joined his father's banking h...

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Herbert Lee Pratt was an American business man and a leading figure in the United States oil industry. Pratt was born 21 November, 1871 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Mary Helen (née Richardson)...

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Clarence Wayland Watson (May 8, 1864 – May 24, 1940) was a coal mining "baron" from West Virginia. Watson organized several coal companies that became the Consolidation Coal and Mining Companies in W...

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Davis Elkins ( January 24, 1876 - January 5, 1959 ) was a United States Senator from West Virginia. Born in Washington, D.C., he attended the Lawrenceville School, Phillips Academy in Andover, Massac...

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See "Twenty Years in the Press Gallery" (O. O. Stealey) Publishers Press, Philadelphia 1906 -------------------- Stephen Benton Elkins (September 26, 1841 – January 4, 1911) was an American indus...

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Unites States Senator. Henry Gassaway Davis (November 16, 1823 – March 11, 1916) was a self-made millionaire and U.S. Senator (1871–1883) from West Virginia. He was the Democratic Party's nominee...

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William Crosson Feazel (June 10, 1895 – March 16, 1965) was a short-term United States Senator from Louisiana. Born near Farmerville, the seat of Union Parish, he attended the public schools and enga...

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Shady Robert Wall (1922–1985) was a banker and philanthropist from West Monroe, Louisiana, who served nonconsecutively as a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1948–1956 ...

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) JOHN W. OVERTON was secretary to President Andrew Jackson. John Overton (April 9, 1766 – April 12, 1833) was an advisor of Andrew Jackson, a judge at the Superior Court of Tennessee, a banker a...

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) Edward J. Gay (February 3, 1816 – May 30, 1889) was a financier and member of United States Congress. He was born at Liberty, Bedford County, Virginia, in the United States. Gay is grandfather of E...

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William Wilson Corcoran (December 27, 1798 – February 24, 1888) was an American banker, philanthropist, and art collector. Early life Corcoran was born in Georgetown in the District of Columb...

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Oliver Hazard Payne (July 21, 1839 – June 27, 1917) was an American businessman, organizer of the American Tobacco trust, and assisted with the formation of U.S. Steel, and was affiliated with Standa...

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"Directory and Genealogy of the Horowitz-Margareten Family- from Generation to Generation" revised Edition 1994. -No. H123- chart no. 2-A & chart no. 26 Regina Margareten (1863-1959) According to t...

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Walter Loomis Newberry (1804, East Windsor, Connecticut – November 6, 1868 at sea) was an American businessman and philanthropist, best known for his bequest that resulted in the creation of the Newb...

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Oliver Newberry (born East Windsor, Connecticut, 17 November 1789; died Detroit, Michigan, 30 July 1860), a brother of Walter Loomis Newberry, served during the war of 1812, and also during the Black H...

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John Stoughton Newberry (November 18, 1826–January 2, 1887) was a U.S. Representative and industrialist from the state of Michigan. Newberry was born in Waterville, New York and moved with his pa...

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Truman Handy Newberry (November 5, 1864 – October 3, 1945) was a U.S. businessman and political figure. He served as the Secretary of Navy between 1908 and 1909. He was a U.S. Senator from Michigan b...

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) James McMillan (May 12, 1838 – August 10, 1902) was a U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan. Biography McMillan was born in Hamilton, Ontario to William and Grace McMillan, both Scottish ...

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Francis Brown Stockbridge (April 9, 1826 – April 30, 1894) was a U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan. Stockbridge was born in Bath, Maine, the son of a physician, Dr. John Stockbridge, and at...

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A.P. Green founded A.P. Green Refractories Company, a fireclay manufacturer and a major employer for many years in Mexico, Missouri.

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Arthur D. Bond (1902-1983) was a Rhodes Scholar, captain of the University of Missouri Tigers football team and Director of the A.P. Green Refractories Company. Bond was born in Perryville, Misso...

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William H. Danforth (1870 – December 24, 1955) founded Nestle Purina in St. Louis, Missouri in 1894. He was a co-founder of the American Youth Foundation (AYF) and the author of the book, I Dare You!...

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William Avery Rockefeller, Jr. (May 31, 1841 - June 24, 1922), American financier, was a co-founder with his older brother John D. Rockefeller of the prominent United States Rockefeller family. He wa...

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) Alexander Mitchell (October 17, 1817 – April 19, 1887) was a Scottish-born banker, railroad financier and Democratic politician in Milwaukee. He was born in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and ...

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Dwight Whitney Morrow (January 11, 1873 – October 5, 1931) was an American businessman, politician, and diplomat. Born in Huntington, West Virginia, he moved with his parents to Allegheny, Pennsylv...

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Walter Evans Edge (November 20, 1873 – October 29, 1956) was an American politician. A Republican, he was twice the Governor of New Jersey, from 1917 to 1919 and again from 1944 to 1947, serving as g...

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Nicholas Frederic Brady (October 27, 1878 – March 27, 1930) was a New York City businessman and philanthropist who was the first American to receive the Roman Catholic Church honor, the Ordine Suprem...

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Anthony Nicholas Brady (August 22, 1841–July 22, 1913) was an American businessman born in Lille, France who emigrated to Troy, New York in 1857. Settling in Albany, New York he was first employed by...

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Colonel William Barbour was founder and president of the Linen Thread Company, Inc., a thread manufacturing enterprise having much business on both sides of the Atlantic.

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John Fairfield Dryden (August 7, 1839 — November 24, 1911) was president of the Prudential Insurance Company and a United States Senator from New Jersey. He was known as the "father of industrial ins...

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Anthony R. Kuser (May 12, 1862 - February 8, 1929) was a businessman and philanthropist who built the High Point monument and donated the land that makes up New Jersey's highest point. He was bor...

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) George Griswold Frelinghuysen (May 9, 1851 – April 21, 1936) was an American patent lawyer, and president of P. Ballantine & Sons Company, a New Jersey brewery. Biography He was born in New...

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Thomas Coleman du Pont (December 11, 1863 - November 11, 1930) was an American engineer and politician, from Greenville, Delaware. He was President of the of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, and...

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Albert Gallatin Edwards (October 15, 1812 – April 19, 1892) was an Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury under President of the United States Abraham Lincoln and founder of brokerage firm A. G. Ed...

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George Washington Thornton Beck (26 June 1856 – 1 December 1943) was a politician and business entrepreneur in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Beck was born on 26 June 1856 in Lexington, Kentucky, the son...

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Thomas Fearn Frist, Sr. (December 15, 1910 – January 4, 1998) was an American businessman. He is the father of US Senator Bill Frist. He received his undergraduate education from the University of Mi...

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Charles McClung McGhee (January 23, 1828 – May 5, 1907) was an American railroad tycoon and financier, active primarily in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the latter half of the nineteenth century. As dir...

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Oliver Chace (August 24, 1769 – May 21, 1852) was the founder of several New England textile manufacturing companies in the early 19th century, including the Valley Falls Company, the original antece...

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James DeWolf (March 18, 1764 – December 21, 1837), nicknamed "Captain Jim", was a United States Senator from Rhode Island, a long-time state legislator and a successful Privateer during the War of 18...

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Gouverneur Kemble (January 25, 1786 – September 18, 1875) was a two-term United States Congressman, diplomat and industrialist. He helped found the West Point Foundry, a major producer of artillery d...

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He was an Anglo-French financier. Towards the end of his life, he became a magazine publisher and a politician. In 1994, he was elected to represent France as a Member of the European Parliament and he...

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Gregory Smith (July 22, 1818 – November 6, 1891), railroad tycoon, politician, war-time governor of Vermont Smith was born in St. Albans, Vermont, son of John and Maria (Curtis) Smith. The elder ...

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James Hartness (September 3, 1861 – February 2, 1934) was an American inventor; a mechanical engineer; an entrepreneur who mentored other inventors to develop their machine tool products and create a...

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Ralph Edward Flanders (September 28, 1880 – February 19, 1970) was an American mechanical engineer, industrialist and Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Vermont. He grew up on subsistence farm...

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William Henry Barnum (September 17, 1818 – April 30, 1889) was a United States politician, serving as a state representative, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and finally as chairman of the Democra...

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) William Sprague IV (September 12, 1830 – September 11, 1915) was the 27th Governor of the U.S. state of Rhode Island from 1860–1863, and U.S. Senator from 1863-1875. He participated in the First Ba...

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Owen D. Young (October 27, 1874 - July 11, 1962) was an American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conference (SRC) in 1929, as a member of the German Reparati...

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ENOS6, Isaac5, Thomas4, Joseph3, Thomas2, John1 (of Woburn & Billerica) FIRST MANUFACTURER OF PLOWS IN THE UNITED STATES. BALDWIN TOOL COMPANY Enos Baldwin, son of Isaac Baldwin and Emma (or ...

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Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849 – December 2, 1919) was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron. He founded the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, was chairman of the ...

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John William Sterling (May 12, 1844 – July 5, 1918) was a corporate attorney and major benefactor to Yale University. Biography John William Sterling was born in Stratford, Connecticut. He gradua...

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Wikepedia: 12/8/2012 John Insley Blair (August 22, 1802 – December 2, 1899) was an American entrepreneur, railroad magnate, philanthropist and one of the 19th century's wealthiest men.

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Charles Scribner I (February 21, 1821 - August 26, 1871) was a New Yorker who, with Isaac D. Baker (1819-1850), founded a publishing company that would eventually become Charles Scribner's Sons. Bi...

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Wikipedia: Amos Starr Cooke-------------------- Amos Starr Cooke (1810–1871) was an educator and businessman in the Kingdom of Hawaii. He was patriarch of a family that influenced Hawaii during the...

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James Drummond Dole (1877–1958), also known as the "Pineapple King'", was an American industrialist who developed the pineapple industry in Hawaii and established the Hawaiian Pineapple Company. Hawa...

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The Alexander and Baldwin Papers. Pertaining to Alexander & Baldwin, Inc., the great sugar growing partnership in Hawaii. Wikipedia: Charles William Dickey ------------------------------ ---------...

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Charles Crocker was a pioneering American industrialist. He had interests in railroads and banking. More here about CPRR More here about Charles Crocker Charles Crocker (16 September 1822 – 14 Au...

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Samuel "Sam" Carnes Collier (May 14, 1912-September 23, 1950) was an American advertising entrepreneur. He made his fortune in streetcar advertising. Early life Collier was the son of Barron Gift...

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Oliver Burr Jennings (June 3, 1825 – February 12, 1893) was an American businessman and one of the original stockholders in Standard Oil. Early life and family Jennings was born in 1825 in Fairfi...

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Benjamin Brewster Jennings (June 9, 1898 – October 2, 1968) was a founder and president of the Socony-Vacuum company, which became, in 1955, the Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony), which would...

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) Benjamin Brewster (June 30, 1828 – August 23, 1897) was an American industrialist, financier, and one of the original trustees of Standard Oil. Early life Brewster was born in 1828 in Norwich, ...

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Henry John Heinz (October 11, 1844 – May 14, 1919) was an American businessman who founded the H. J. Heinz Company. Early life Heinz was one of eight children born to John Henry Heinz and Anna Ma...

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Edson Fessenden Gallaudet (April 21, 1871 – July 1, 1945) was a pioneer in the field of aviation, being the first person to experiment with warped wings in 1896. In 1898, he built a warping-wing kite...

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Alexander McCormick "Sandy" Sturm (1923 – 13 November 1951) was an American artist and writer who was a co-founder of Sturm, Ruger, a firearms manufacturer. Sturm was well-connected, being the son of...

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Samuel Finley Brown Morse (July 18, 1885- May 10, 1969) was an environmental conservationist and the developer of Pebble Beach. He was known as the Duke of Del Monte and ran his company from the 1919...

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John Kinder Labatt (1803 – 26 October 1866) was an Irish-Canadian brewer, and the founder of the Labatt Brewing Company. He was born 1803 at Mountmellick (County Laoighis, Republic of Ireland), eldes...

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