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Wellington R. Burt (August 26, 1831 – March 2, 1919) was an American lumber baron from Saginaw, Michigan. [ 2][ 3] At the time of his death, his wealth was estimated to be between $40 and $90 million (equivalent to between $703 million and $1.58 billion in 2023). [ 4][ 5] For a time in the early 1900s, Burt ranked as one of the eight ...
A business magnate, also known as an industrialist or tycoon, is a person who has achieved immense wealth through the creation or ownership of multiple lines of enterprise. The term characteristically refers to a powerful entrepreneur and investor who controls, through personal enterprise ownership or a dominant shareholding position, a firm or ...
The history of the lumber industry in the United States spans from the precolonial period of British timber speculation, subsequent British colonization, and American development into the twenty-first century. Following the near eradication of domestic timber on the British Isles, the abundance of old-growth forests in the New World posed an ...
Jimmy Rane. James W. Rane (born 1947) [ 1] is an American businessman, and the founder, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Great Southern Wood Preserving, one of the largest pressure treated lumber producers in the world. [ 2]
John Rudolphus Booth (April 5, 1827 – December 8, 1925) was a Canadian lumber tycoon and railroad baron.He controlled logging rights for large tracts of forest land in central Ontario, and built the Canada Atlantic Railway (from Georgian Bay via Ottawa to Vermont) to extract his logs and to export lumber and grain to the United States and Europe.
Wesley and Neva also donated generously to the Baylor College of Medicine, the Texas Medical Center, and Texas A&M Health Science Center. [2] The Neva and Wesley West Chair at A&M is named in their honor (currently held by Magnus Hook ) [ 3 ] as is the Neva and Wesley West Scholarship in the College of Business Administration at Sam Houston ...
Harvard University. Signature. William Randolph Hearst Sr. ( / hɜːrst /; [ 1] April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper publisher and politician who developed the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications. His flamboyant methods of yellow journalism influenced the nation's popular media by ...
Punishment of peons employed by railroad tycoon Henry Meiggs in Chile or Peru, 1862. Before his fraud was discovered, Meiggs left San Francisco on October 6, 1854, in the brig American, heading for South America. According to him, he landed with only $8,000 (his fraud raised, by some accounts, half a million), lost it immediately, and had to ...