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| Jakob Fugger 49 ? Augsburg, DE 1455(03/06) - 1525(12/30) | Meyer Amschel Rothschild 49 ? Frankfurt-am-Main, DE 1743(02/23) - 1812(09/19) | James McGill 44 Glasgow, Scotland, GB 1744(10/06) - 1813(12/19) | Stephen Girard 33 ? Bordeaux, FR 1750(05/20) - 1831(12/26) | Johann Jakob Astor 49 ? Walldorf, Baden, DE 1763(07/17) - 1848(03/29) |
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| Eleuthère Irénée du Pont 33 Paris, FR 1771(06/24) - 1834(10/31) | Nicholas Biddle 1 19104? Philadelphia, PA 1786(01/08) - 1844(02/27) | Samuel Cunard 1CNS ? Halifax, NS 1787(11/21) - 1865(04/28) | Peter Cooper 1 10001? New York, NY 1791(02/12) - 1883(04/04) | Cornelius Vanderbilt 1 10001* Staten Island, NY 1794(05/27) - 1877(01/04) |
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| Erastus Corning 1 06360 Norwich, CT 1794(12/14) - 1872(04/09) | George Peabody 1 019605423 205 Washington Street, Peabody, MA 1795(02/18) - 1869(11/04) | Johns Hopkins 1 21035 Davidsonville, Anne Arundel County, MD 1795(05/19) - 1873(12/24) | Ezra Cornell 1 10601? Westchester County, NY 1807(01/11) - 1874(12/09) | Alfred Felix Alwyn Krupp 49 ? Essen, DE 1812 - 1887 |
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| Mark Hopkins 1 13650 Henderson, Jefferson County, NY 1813(09/01) - 1878(03/29) | August Belmont 49 ? Alzei, Hesse, DE 1813(12/08) - 1890(11/24) | William Marsh Rice 1 01101? Springfield, MA 1816(03/14) - 1900(09/23) | Russell Sage 1 13478 Verona, NY 1816(08/04) - 1906(07/22) | Ernst Werner von Siemens 49 ? Gehrden, DE 1816(12/13) - 1892(12/06) |
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| William George Fargo 1 13138 Pompey, NY 1818(05/20) - 1881(08/03) | Cyrus West Field 1 01263 Stockbridge, MA 1819(11/30) - 1892(07/12) | Allan Pinkerton 44S ? Glasgow, Scotland, GB 1819(08/25) - 1884(07/01) | Thomas Clark Durant 1 01238 Lee, MA 1820 - 1885 | Collis Potter Huntington 1 06791 Harwinton, CT 1821(04/16) - 1900(08/14) |
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| William Henry Vanderbilt 1 08901? New Brunswick, NJ 1821(05/08) - 1885(12/08) | Jay Cooke 1 44870? Sandusky, OH 1821(08/10) - 1905(02/08) | Charles Crocker 1 12180? Troy, NY 1822(09/16) - 1888(08/14) | Amasa Leland Stanford 1 12189 Watervliet, NY 1824(03/09) - 1893(06/21) | Potter Palmer ? 1826(05/20) - 1902(05/04) |
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| Meyer Guggenheim 41 ? Lengnau, Aargau, CH 1828(02/01) - 1905(03/15) | Loeb Strauss 49 ? Buttenheim, Bavaria, DE 1829(02/26) - 1902(09/26) | Henry Morrison Flagler 1 12533 Hopewell, NY 1830(01/02) - 1913(05/20) | Clement Studebaker 1 17339 Pinetown, PA 1831(03/12) - 1901(11/27) | Philip Danforth Armour 1 13409 Stockbridge, NY 1832(05/16) - 1901(01/06) |
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| Marshall Field 1 01341 Conway, MA 1834(08/18) - 1906(01/16) | Henry Villard 49 Speyer, Rhenish Bavaria, DE 1835(04/10) - 1900(11/12) | Andrew Carnegie 44 ? Dunfermline, Scotland, GB 1835(11/25) - 1919(08/11) | Johann Gottlieb Friedrich Pabst 49 ? Nikolausrieht, Mönchpfiffel-Nikolausrieth, Kyffhäuserkreis, Thuringia, DE 1836(03/28) - 1904(01/01) | Jason Gould 1 1?? Roxburg, Delaware County, NY 1836(05/27) - 1892(12/02) |
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| John Pierpont Morgan 1 06101? Hartford, CT 1837(04/17) - 1913(03/31) | James Fisk 1 05201 Bennington, VT 1838(04/01) - 1872(01/06) | John Nelson Wanamaker 1 19104? Philadelphia, PA 1838(07/11) - 1922(12/12) | James Jerome Hill 1CON ? Eramosa Township, Wellington County, ON 1838(09/16) - 1916(05/29) | Gustavus Franklin Swift 1 02561 Sagamore, MA 1839(06/24) - 1903(03/29) |
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| John Davison Rockefeller 1 13835 Richford, NY 1839(07/08) - 1937(05/23) | Adolphus Busch 49 ? Kastel, Mainz, Hesse, DE 1839(07/10) - 1913(10/10) | Henry Huttleston Rogers 1 02739 Mattapoisett, MA 1840(01/29) - 1909(05/19) | William Avery Rockefeller 1 13835 Richford, NY 1841(05/31) - 1922(06/24) | Benjamin Franklin Goodrich 1 14775 Ripley, NY 1841(11/04) - 1888(08/03) |
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| Marcus Daly 353 ? Derrylea, County Cavan, IE 1841(12/05) - 1900(11/12) | Joseph Bernard Bloomingdale ? 1842(12/22) - 1904(11/21) | Henry Martyn Leland 1 05822? Barton, VT 1843(02/16) - 1932(03/26) | Aaron Montgomery Ward 1 07928 Chatham, NJ 1844(02/17) - 1913(12/07) | Henry John Heinz 1 15233? Birmingham, Pittsburgh, PA 1844(10/11) - 1919(05/14) |
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| Theodore Newton Vail 1 44657 330? Minerva(MNRV), Carroll County, Stark County, OH 1845(07/16) - 1920(04/16) | George Westinghouse 1 12035 518? Central Bridge, Schoharie County, NY 1846(10/06) - 1914(03/12) | Minor Cooper Keith 1 11201? 718? Brooklyn(NYCK), NY 1848(01/19) - 1929(06/14) | Nathan Straus 49 67697 6301 Otterberg, RP, DE 1848(01/31) - 1931(01/11) | Edward Henry Harriman 1 11551? Hempstead, NY 1848(02/20) - 1909(09/09) |
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| Thomas Johnstone Lipton 44S G 141 Glasgow, Scotland, GB 1848(05/10) - 1931(10/02) | William Kissam Vanderbilt 1 10301? 718? New Dorp, Staten Island(NYCR), NY 1849(12/12) - 1920(07/22) | Henry Clay Frick 1 15683 724? West Overton, Westmoreland County, PA 1849(12/19) - 1919(12/02) | ||
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| Henry Edwards Huntington 1 13820 Oneonta, NY 1850(02/27) - 1927(05/23) | Joseph Bulova ? 1851 - 1935(11/18) | John Harvey Kellogg 1 4?? Tyrone, MI 1852(02/26) - 1943(12/14) | Frank Winfield Woolworth 1 13682 Rodman, NY 1852(04/13) - 1919(04/08) | George Eastman 1 13480 Waterville, NY 1854(07/12) - 1932(03/14) |
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| David Dunbar Buick 44S ? Arbroath, Angus, Scotland, GB 1854(09/17) - 1929(03/06) | Charles William Post 1 62703? Springfield, IL 1854(10/26) - 1914(05/09) | King Camp Gillette 1 54935? Fond du Lac, WI 1855(01/05) - 1932(07/09) | Andrew William Mellon 1 15233? Pittsburgh, PA 1855(03/24) - 1937(08/27) | Milton Snavely Hershey 1 17033 Hershey, PA 1857(09/13) - 1945(10/13) |
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| Charles Gimbel ? 1861 - 1932(09/09) | William Wrigley 1 19104? Philadelphia, PA 1861(09/30) - 1932(01/26) | William Crapo Durant 1 02205? Boston, MA 1861(12/08) - 1947(03/18) | Charles Michael Schwab 1 16693 Williamsburg, PA 1862(02/18) - 1939(09/18) | Henry Ford 1 48120? Dearborn, MI 1863(07/30) - 1947(04/07) |
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| Richard Warren Sears 1 55976 Stewartville, MN 1863(12/07) - 1914(09/28) | Ransom Eli Olds 1 44041 Geneva, OH 1864(06/03) - 1950(08/26) | John Francis Dodge 1 49120? Niles, MI 1864(10/25) - 1920(01/14) | Ellis Gimbel ? 1865 - 1950(03/17) | Herbert Henry Dow 1CON ? Belleville, ON 1866(02/26) - 1930(10/15) |
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| Jacob Ruppert 1 10001? New York, NY 1867(08/05) - 1939(01/13) | Horace Elgin Dodge 1 49120? Niles, MI 1868(05/17) - 1920(12/10) | Harvey Samuel Firestone 1 44408 Columbiana, OH 1868(12/20) - 1938(02/07) | Felix Moritz Warburg 49 ? Hamburg, DE 1871 - 1937(09/20) | John Davidson Rockefeller 1 44101? Cleveland, OH 1874(01/29) - 1960(05/11) |
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| Thomas John Watson 1 14821 Campbell, NY 1874(02/17) - 1956(06/19) | Walter Percy Chrysler 1 66547 Wamego, KS 1875(04/02) - 1940(08/18) | Alfred Pritchard Sloan 1 06511? New Haven, CT 1875(05/23) - 1966(02/17) | Henry John Kaiser 1 13317 Sprout Brook, NY 1882(05/09) - 1967(08/24) | Bernard F. Gimbel ? 1885 - 1966(09/29) |
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| Joseph Patrick Kennedy 1 02205? Boston, MA 1888(09/06) - 1969(11/18) | Haroldson Lafayette Hunt 1 62080 Ramsey, Carson Township, Fayette County, IL 1889(02/17) - 1974(11/29) | Arde Bulova ? 1889 - 1958(03/19) | Charles E. Wilson 1 44657 Minerva, OH 1890(07/18) - 1961(09/26) | Harland Sanders 1 47126 Henryville, IN 1890(09/09) - 1980(12/16) |
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| David Sarnoff 375 ? Uzlian, BY 1891(02/27) - 1971(12/12) | Jean Paul Getty 1 55440? Minneapolis, MN 1892(12/15) - 1976(06/06) | Edsel Bryant Ford 1 48231? Detroit, MI 1893(11/06) - 1943(05/26) | William Edwards Deming 1 511034918 121 Bluff Street, Sioux City, IA 1900(10/14) - 1993(12/20) | William Samuel Paley 1 60607? Chicago, IL 1901(09/28) - 1990(10/26) |
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| Walter Elias Disney 1 60607? Chicago, IL 1901(12/05) - 1966(12/15) | Howard Robard Hughes 1 77338? Humble, TX 1905(12/24) - 1976(04/05) | Aristotle Onassis 90 ? Izmir, TR 1906(01/15) - 1975(03/15) | William Jaird Levitt 1 ? ?, ? 1907(02/11) - 1994(01/28) | Walter Hubert Annenberg 1 53201? Milwaukee, WI 1908(03/13) - 2002(10/01) |
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| Laurance Spelman Rockefeller 1 10001? New York, NY 1910(05/26) - 2004(07/11) | Samuel Moore Walton 1 73750 Kingfisher, OK 1918(03/29) - 1992(04/05) | Franklin Parsons Perdue 1 21801? Salisbury, MD 1920(05/09) - 2005(03/31) | ||
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| Giovanni Agnelli 39 ? Turin, IT 1921(03/12) - 2003(01/24) | Samuel Curtis Johnson 1 53401? Racine, WI 1928(03/02) - 2004(05/22) | Kenneth Lee Lay 1 65464? Tyrone, MO 1942(04/15) - 2006(07/05) |
| William Colgate | 44 ? Hollingbourn, Kent, England, GB | 1783(01/25) - 1857(03/25)
| William Gregg | 1 26505? Monongalia County, WV | 1800 - 1867(09/13)
| George Whitfield Scranton | 1 06443 Madison, CT | 1811(05/11) - 1861(03/24)
| Richard King | 1 10924 Orange County, NY | 1824(07/24) - 1885(04/14)
| Elbert Henry Gary | 1 60187? 630? Wheaton(WHTN), DuPage County, IL | 1846(10/08) - 1927(08/15)
| James Walter Thompson | 1 01201? 413? Pittsfield(PTFD), Berkshire County, MA | 1847(10/28) - 1928(10/16)
| Francis Wayland Ayer | 1 01238 413243,413394, Lee(LEE), Berkshire County, MA | 1848(02/04) - 1923(03/05)
| Charles Elmer Hires | ? | 1851(08/19) - 1937(07/31)
| Thomas Fortune Ryan | 1 22949 Lovingston, VA | 1851(10/17) - 1928(11/23)
| Asa Griggs Candler | 1 30180 Villa Rica, GA | 1851(12/30) - 1929(03/12)
| Benjamin Newton Duke | 1 27701? Durham, NC | 1855(04/25) - 1929(01/08)
| Frederick Louis Maytag | 1 50208 Newton, IA | 1857(07/14) - 1937(03/26)
| John Thomas Underwood | ? | 1857 - 1937(07/02)
| Oscar Ferdinand Mayer | 49 ? Neresheim, Ostalbkreis, Baden-Württemberg, DE | 1859 - 1955(03/11)
| George Albert Hormel | 1 ? Buffalo, NY | 1860 - 1946(06/05)
| William Cooper Procter | 1 45246 Glendale, OH | 1862 - 1934(05/02)
| Rudolph Jay Schaefer | ? | 1863 - 1923(11/09)
| Samuel Shannon Childs | ? | 1863 - 1925(03/17)
| Samuel Henry Kress | 1 18035 Cherryville, PA | 1863(07/23) - 1955(09/22)
| James Ward Packard | 1 44481? Warren, OH | 1863(11/05) - 1928(03/20)
| George Swinnerton Parker | 1 01970? Salem, MA | 1866(12/12) -1952(09/26)
| Amadeo Pietro Giannini | 1 95113? San Jose, CA | 1870 - 1949
| Gerard Swope | 1 63166? Saint Louis, MO | 1872(12/01) - 1957(11/20)
| Charles Rudolph Walgreen | 1 61401? Galesburg, IL | 1873(10/09) - 1939(12/11)
| James Lewis Kraft | 1CON ? Stevensville, ON | 1874(12/11) - 1953(02/16)
| James Cash Penney | 1 64644 Hamilton, MO | 1875(09/16) - 1971(02/12)
| William Signius Knudsen | 45 ? Copenhagen, DK | 1879(03/25) - 1948(04/27)
| Vincent Hugo Bendix | 1 61265? Moline, IL | 1881(12/12) - 1945(03/27)
| Elmer Henry Maytag | ? | 1883(09/18) - 1940(07/20)
| Malcolm Muir | 1 ? ?, ? | 1885 - 1979(02/??)
| Alfred Carl Fuller | 1CNS ? Welsford, Kings County, NS | 1885(01/13) - 1973(12/??)
| Charles Edward Merrill | 1 32043 Green Cove Springs, FL | 1885(10/19) - 1956(10/06)
| Conrad Nicholson Hilton | 1 87832 San Antonio, NM | 1887(12/25) - 1979(01/03)
| DeWitt Wallace | 1 55101? Saint Paul, MN | 1890(11/12) - 1981(03/30)
| Samuel Irving Newhouse | 1 ? ?, ? | 1895(05/24) - 1979(08/29)
| Howard Dearing Johnson | 1 02205? Boston, MA | 1897(02/02) - 1972(06/20)
| Walter L. Jacobs | 1 ? ?, ? | 1898 - 1985
| Armand Hammer | 1 10001? Manhattan, NY | 1898(05/21) - 1990(12/10)
| Frederick Douglass Patterson | 1 20090? Washington, DC | 1901(10/10) - 1988(04/26)
| Ray Arthur Kroc | 1 60607? Chicago, IL | 1902(10/05) - 1984(01/14)
| John Hay Whitney | 1 04605 Ellsworth, ME | 1904(08/27) - 1982(02/08)
| Leonard H. Goldenson | 1 ? ?, ? | 1905(12/07) - 1999(12/29)
| Avery Fisher | 1 10001? Brooklyn, NY | 1906(03/04) - 1994(02/26)
| Charles Haskell Revson | 1 02143? Somerville, MA | 1906(10/11) - 1975(08/24)
| Tom Carvel | 30 ? ?, GR | 1906(07/14) - 1990(10/21)
| Malcolm Stevenson Forbes | 1 ? ?, ? | 1917(08/19) - 1990(02/24)
| Henry Ford | 1 48321? Detroit, MI | 1917(09/04) - 1987(09/29)
| John Harold Johnson | 1 71630 Arkansas City, AR | 1918(01/19) - 2005(08/08)
| Akio Morita | 81 ? Tokoname, Aichi, JP | 1921(01/26) - 1999(10/03)
| David Thomas | 1 08401? Atlantic City, NJ | 1932(07/02) - 2002(01/08)
| Edmond J. Safra | 961 ? Beirut, LB | 1932(08/06) - 1999(12/03)
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