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Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha (1958 - 2018)

Khun Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha born Vichai Raksriaksorn, Thai: วิชัย รักศรีอักษร; 4 April 1958 – 27 October 2018) was a Thai billionaire businessman and the founder, owner, and chairman of King Power....

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Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha (1958 - 2018)

Khun Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha born Vichai Raksriaksorn, Thai: วิชัย รักศรีอักษร; 4 April 1958 – 27 October 2018) was a Thai billionaire businessman and the founder, owner, and chairman of King Power....

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Harry Broderick Olmsted Harry Broderick Olmsted (5/21/1867-10/4/1924) was born in Columbus, Ohio. He worked for the Isaac Eberly Grocery Company as a traveling salesman from 1882 to 1896. He event...

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Harry Broderick Olmsted Harry Broderick Olmsted (5/21/1867-10/4/1924) was born in Columbus, Ohio. He worked for the Isaac Eberly Grocery Company as a traveling salesman from 1882 to 1896. He event...

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Josiah Kendall Proctor (1848 - 1920)

History of Proctor-Silex, 1788 to 1972 By Arthur L. Redstone PART I - JAMES SMITH CO. - 1788-1883 Eventually, management had to realize the urgency of reversing this decline. Then in 1878, the burn...

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Josiah Kendall Proctor (1848 - 1920)

History of Proctor-Silex, 1788 to 1972 By Arthur L. Redstone PART I - JAMES SMITH CO. - 1788-1883 Eventually, management had to realize the urgency of reversing this decline. Then in 1878, the burn...

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Barnard Townsend (1908 - 1994)

Barnard Townsend CINCINNATI March 25 -- A Tuesday memorial is scheduled in New York City for Barnard Townsend, a former financial vice president for United Press International and the E.W. Sc...

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Barnard Townsend (1908 - 1994)

Barnard Townsend CINCINNATI March 25 -- A Tuesday memorial is scheduled in New York City for Barnard Townsend, a former financial vice president for United Press International and the E.W. Sc...

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John McGraw (1815 - 1877)

John McGraw

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Amasa Stone, Jr. (1818 - 1883)

Amasa Stone, Jr. Husband of Julia A. Gleason, father of Clara (Mrs. John Milton Hay) Adelbert, and Flora (Mrs. Samuel Mather). Railroad builder-philanthropist. He was a major benefactor of W...

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Amasa Stone, Jr. (1818 - 1883)

Amasa Stone, Jr. Husband of Julia A. Gleason, father of Clara (Mrs. John Milton Hay) Adelbert, and Flora (Mrs. Samuel Mather). Railroad builder-philanthropist. He was a major benefactor of W...

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Franklin Taylor Osgood, Jr. December 6, 1930 - May 15, 2021 Son of the late Franklin and Dorothy Osgood, husband to Priscilla Greene Osgood with whom he was married for forty-two years. Frank w...

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Franklin Taylor Osgood, Jr. December 6, 1930 - May 15, 2021 Son of the late Franklin and Dorothy Osgood, husband to Priscilla Greene Osgood with whom he was married for forty-two years. Frank w...

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Antonio Brías MP (1883 - 1945)

Antonio Brías was a Filipino businessman. He was the manager of San Miguel Brewery. Encyclopedia of the Philippines: The Library of Philippine Literature, Art and Science, Volume 9: Builders of the N...

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Antonio Brías MP (1883 - 1945)

Antonio Brías was a Filipino businessman. He was the manager of San Miguel Brewery. Encyclopedia of the Philippines: The Library of Philippine Literature, Art and Science, Volume 9: Builders of the N...

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Charles Albert Gould (1849 - 1926)

Charles Albert Gould American yachtsman, industrialist and art collector. Gould was born on January 13, 1849 in Batavia, New York. He was the eldest child of William Wallace Gould (1826–1892), ...

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Charles Albert Gould (1849 - 1926)

Charles Albert Gould American yachtsman, industrialist and art collector. Gould was born on January 13, 1849 in Batavia, New York. He was the eldest child of William Wallace Gould (1826–1892), ...

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Photo from La Vanguardia (31 January 1936, p. 5): https://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.do?path=1000380703&posicion=5&presentacion=pagina Original file: https://ibb.co/Gd2t8vJ or https://imgbox.com/j3MjioyU or https://pixhost.to/show/681/467682284_bvph20160000757_19360131_0005.jpg Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leopoldo_Br%C3%ADas_y_Garchitorena.jpg This work was first published in the Philippines and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines. The work meets one of the following criteria: It is an anonymous or pseudonymous work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication It is an audiovisual or photographic work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication It is a work of applied art and 25 years have passed since the year of its publication It is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author) Important note: Works of foreign (non-U.S.) origin must be out of copyright or freely licensed in both their home country and the United States in order to be accepted on Commons. Works of Philippine origin that have entered the public domain in the U.S. due to certain circumstances (such as publication in noncompliance with U.S. copyright formalities) may have had their U.S. copyright restored under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) if the work was under copyright in its country of origin on the date that the URAA took effect in that country. (For the Philippines, the URAA took effect on January 1, 1996.) This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a detailed definition of "publication" for public art. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.

Leopoldo Brías de Garchitorena was a Filipino businessman and diplomat. Cornejo’s Commonwealth Directory of the Philippines (1939), by Miguel Cornejo (p. 1626) Who's Who in the Philippines: A Biogr...

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Photo from La Vanguardia (31 January 1936, p. 5): https://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.do?path=1000380703&posicion=5&presentacion=pagina Original file: https://ibb.co/Gd2t8vJ or https://imgbox.com/j3MjioyU or https://pixhost.to/show/681/467682284_bvph20160000757_19360131_0005.jpg Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leopoldo_Br%C3%ADas_y_Garchitorena.jpg This work was first published in the Philippines and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines. The work meets one of the following criteria: It is an anonymous or pseudonymous work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication It is an audiovisual or photographic work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication It is a work of applied art and 25 years have passed since the year of its publication It is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author) Important note: Works of foreign (non-U.S.) origin must be out of copyright or freely licensed in both their home country and the United States in order to be accepted on Commons. Works of Philippine origin that have entered the public domain in the U.S. due to certain circumstances (such as publication in noncompliance with U.S. copyright formalities) may have had their U.S. copyright restored under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) if the work was under copyright in its country of origin on the date that the URAA took effect in that country. (For the Philippines, the URAA took effect on January 1, 1996.) This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a detailed definition of "publication" for public art. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
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Leopoldo Brías de Garchitorena was a Filipino businessman and diplomat. Cornejo’s Commonwealth Directory of the Philippines (1939), by Miguel Cornejo (p. 1626) Who's Who in the Philippines: A Biogr...

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Leopoldo Brías Roxas MP (1891 - 1920)

Leopoldo Brías Roxas was a Filipino baritone and businessman. Gallery of Illustrious Filipinos (1917), by Manuel Artigas (Volume II, p. 477-478) The Philippine Review (January-February 1918, p. 554...

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Leopoldo Brías Roxas MP (1891 - 1920)

Leopoldo Brías Roxas was a Filipino baritone and businessman. Gallery of Illustrious Filipinos (1917), by Manuel Artigas (Volume II, p. 477-478) The Philippine Review (January-February 1918, p. 554...

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Charles Augustus Stone (1867 - 1941)

Charles Augustus Stone Associated Press story in the Richmond Times Dispatch, 26 February 1941, p. 20 C.A. Stone, Engineer, Dies at 74 New York. Charles Augustus Stone, 74, whose construction ...

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Charles Augustus Stone (1867 - 1941)

Charles Augustus Stone Associated Press story in the Richmond Times Dispatch, 26 February 1941, p. 20 C.A. Stone, Engineer, Dies at 74 New York. Charles Augustus Stone, 74, whose construction ...

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Enrique Brías Roxas MP (1881 - 1939)

Enrique Brías Roxas was a Filipino businessman. Story Gallery of Illustrious Filipinos (1917), by Manuel Artigas (Volume II, p. 473-477) Men of the Philippines: A Biographical Record of Men of S...

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Enrique Brías Roxas MP (1881 - 1939)

Enrique Brías Roxas was a Filipino businessman. Story Gallery of Illustrious Filipinos (1917), by Manuel Artigas (Volume II, p. 473-477) Men of the Philippines: A Biographical Record of Men of S...

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Imre Bekessy (1887 - bef.1951)

"Emery"

Imre Békessy was born in Budapest, Hungary on 13 October 1887. It is presumed that he met and married Bianca Marton sometime prior to 1911 and that their marriage most likely occurred in Hungary. Im...

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Imre Bekessy (1887 - bef.1951)

"Emery"

Imre Békessy was born in Budapest, Hungary on 13 October 1887. It is presumed that he met and married Bianca Marton sometime prior to 1911 and that their marriage most likely occurred in Hungary. Im...

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Gregorio S. Araneta MP (1869 - 1930)

Don Gregorio Araneta y Soriano was a Filipino lawyer, businessman, nationalist and patriot, who served his country and people during the Spanish colonization and American occupation. He served as the S...

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Gregorio S. Araneta MP (1869 - 1930)

Don Gregorio Araneta y Soriano was a Filipino lawyer, businessman, nationalist and patriot, who served his country and people during the Spanish colonization and American occupation. He served as the S...

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Juan Araneta MP (1852 - 1924)

Juan Araneta was a pioneer sugar farmer and the capital del pueblo of Bago. He emerged as the revolutionary leader of the Negros Revolution against Spain. Wikipedia Gallery of Illustrious Filipino...

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Juan Araneta MP (1852 - 1924)

Juan Araneta was a pioneer sugar farmer and the capital del pueblo of Bago. He emerged as the revolutionary leader of the Negros Revolution against Spain. Wikipedia Gallery of Illustrious Filipino...

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José Ruiz de Luzuriaga MP (1843 - 1921)

José Ruiz de Luzuriaga was a Filipino judge, sugar planter, revolutionary and politician. Luzuriaga was a member of the Philippine Commission from 1901 to 1913. Wikipedia

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José Ruiz de Luzuriaga MP (1843 - 1921)

José Ruiz de Luzuriaga was a Filipino judge, sugar planter, revolutionary and politician. Luzuriaga was a member of the Philippine Commission from 1901 to 1913. Wikipedia

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Aye Ne Win is a Burmese businessman and former political inmate who spent 11 years in prison for a high treason with plotting to overthrow the Senior General Than Shwe' regime in 2002 along with his tw...

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Aye Ne Win is a Burmese businessman and former political inmate who spent 11 years in prison for a high treason with plotting to overthrow the Senior General Than Shwe' regime in 2002 along with his tw...

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