The 1900s: Business and the Economy: Deaths

THE 1900s: BUSINESS AND THE ECONOMY: DEATHS

Philip Danforth Armour, 68, meatpacker who was a major supplier of pork during the Civil War and played an important role in the expansion of refrigerated meatpacking, 6 January 1901.

James Anthony Bailey, 58, circus operator and promoter of the Barnum and Bailey Circus, 11 April 1906.

Alexander Johnston Cassati, 67, railroad executive for Pennsylvania Railroad who was instrumental in solving rebate problems that plagued the railroad industry in the 1890s, 28 December 1906.

Moses Herman Cone, 51, textile manufacturer whose Cone Mills Corporation pursued the development of denim mills, 8 December 1908.

Charles Henry Deere, 70, agricultural implement manufacturer whose father founded John Deere and Company, 29 October 1907.

William Lukens Elkins, 71, public utility and traction entrepreneur, United Gas Improvement Company, 7 November 1903.

Marshall Field, 71, department store pioneer who developed Marshall Field and Company into the largest wholesale and retail dry-goods seller in the world, 16 January 1906.

Edward Henry Harriman, 61, entrepreneur and railway executive who headed Illinois Central, Union Pacific, and Southern Pacific Railroads, 9 September 1909.

Henry Osborne Havemeyer, 60, sugar refiner and entrepreneur whose American Sugar Refining Company grew into a sugar trust that controlled 98 percent of the sugar refining in the United States by the end of the 1890s, 4 December 1907.

Abram Stevens Hewitt, 80, steel manufacturer and politician whose Cooper, Hewitt and Company introduced the Open Hearth furnace and made the first American steel, 18 January 1903.

Cyrus Kurtz Holliday, 73, railroad builder who wrote the charter for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and served on the railroad's board of directors for forty years, 29 March 1900.

Benjamin Franklin Jones, 78, steel manufacturer and association official, founder of Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, 19 May 1903.

John Leary, 67, entrepreneur and developer associated with Talbot Coal Mines and Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad Company, 8 February 1905.

Emmanuel Lehman, 79, investment banker and financier, founder of Lehman Brothers and Company, 10 January 1907.

Charles Lockhart, 86, pioneer oilman and steel manufacturer who worked with John D. Rockefeller in the early days of Standard Oil Company, 26 January 1905.

John William Mackay, 70, mine operator, financier, founder of Hale and Norcross Mines and Commercial Cable Company, 20 July 1902.

Alexander Majors, 85, expressman and stagecoach operator who established the Pony Express, which only lasted eighteen months, 12 January 1900.

John Augustine McCall, 56, insurance executive with New York Life Insurance Company, 18 February 1906.

William Howe McElwain, 40, shoe manufacturer, founder of W. H. McElwain and Company, 10 January 1908.

Gordon McKay, 82, inventor and shoe machinery manufacturer, 19 November 1903.

Nelson Morris, 69, meatpacker, owner of Nelson Morris and Company, 21 August 1907.

Henry William Oliver, 63, steel manufacturer, iron mine owner, and publisher, 8 February 1904.

James Oliver, 84, plow inventor and manufacturer, president of Oliver Chilled Plow Works, 2 March 1908.

Potter Palmer, 75, merchant, land developer who built the Palmer House and founded dry-goods store that became Marshall Field and Company, 4 May 1902.

Charles Elliott Perkins, 66, railroad executive, director of Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, 8 November 1907.

Ferdinand Schumacker, 86, cereal manufacturer, founder of F. Schumacker Milling and American Cereal Company, 1908.

James Edmund Scripps, 71, newspaper publisher and founder of several papers in Michigan, including Detroit Evening News, 29 May 1906.

Quincy Adams Shaw, 83, copper mining entrepreneur associated with Calumet Mining Company, 11 June 1908.

Clement Studebaker, 70, wagon and automobile manufacturer who with older brother, Henry, founded H. and C. Studebaker, 27 November 1901.

Joseph Wharton, 82, zinc and iron manufacturer who for many years was the only U.S. producer of refined nickel; he was associated with Lehigh Zinc Company Bethlehem Iron Company (Bethlehem Steel Company), founded Swarthmore College, and endowed the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, 11 January 1909.