Business and Inventions
763 famous people found
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Thomas G. AYERS
American president, CEO and chairman of Commonwealth Edison
1915 - 2007 -
Harry CULVER
American real estate developer and promoter
1880 - 1946 -
Jerome B. CHAFFEE
Entrepreneur and United States Senator from Colorado
1825 - 1886 -
Frank Winfield WOOLWORTH
Founder of F. W. Woolworth Company
1852 - 1919 -
Patrick CALHOUN
President of United Railroads of San Francisco
1856 - 1943 -
J. Gregory SMITH
American railroad tycoon, politician, and the last Governor of Vermont during the Civil War
1818 - 1891 -
Lawrence BRAINERD
Businessman, abolitionist and United States Senator from Vermont
1794 - 1870 -
George Washington Gale FERRIS
American engineer
1859 - 1896 -
Jennifer FLAVIN
Former American model and current entrepreneur and business owner
1968 -
John Ellerton LODGE
American ship merchant
1807 - 1862 -
Elias HOWE
American inventor and sewing machine pioneer
1819 - 1867 -
George Huntington HARTFORD
Head of The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company from 1878 to 1917
1833 - 1917 -
H. B. REESE
American inventor known for creating Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and founding the H. B. Reese Candy Company
1879 - 1956 -
Joyce HALL
American businessman, was the founder of Hallmark Cards
1891 - 1982 -
Holmes TUTTLE
American businessman and autodealer, headed President Ronald Reagan's unofficial "Kitchen Cabinet"
1905 - 1989 -
Albert Augustus POPE
American Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel who founded the Pope Manufacturing Company
1843 - 1909 -
Franklin Leonard POPE
American engineer, explorer, and inventor
1840 - 1895 -
John Warne GATES
American pioneer promoter of barbed wire who became a Gilded Age industrialist
1855 - 1911 -
J. Paul GETTY
Anglo-American industrialist, founder of the Getty Oil Company
1892 - 1976 -
Douglas SHEARER
Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and recording director
1899 - 1971