The 1920s: Business and the Economy: Deaths
THE 1920s: BUSINESS AND THE ECONOMY: DEATHS
Francis Wayland Ayer, 75, "ad" pioneer, founder of advertising and public relations firm that later became N. W. Ayer and Son, 5 March 1923.
William James Baldwin, 79, pioneer skyscraper constructor, 7 May 1924.
Ohio C. Barber, 79, "Match King" of the Diamond Match Company, 4 February 1920.
Clarence Walker Barron, 70, pioneer in stock-market journalism, founder of Boston News Bureau (1887) and Philadelphia News Bureau (1897), publisher of the Wall Street Journal (1901-1928), founder of Barrons Business and Financial Weekly (1921), 20 October 1928.
John Jacob Bausch, 95, founder (1853), with Henry Lomb, and president of Bausch and Lomb Optical Company, 14 February 1926.
William H. Beardsley, 73, president of Florida East Coast Railway, 13 December 1925.
Alexander Graham Bell, 75, inventor of the telephone and founder, with Gardiner G. Hubbard and others, of Bell Telephone Company, 2 August 1922.
Emil Berolzheimer, 60, pencil manufacturer, 25 May 1922.
Nicholas Biddle, 44, financier and trustee of the Astor estate, member of the Biddle family of Philadelphia, influential in legal and financial affairs, 18 February 1923.
Irving Ingersoll Bloomingdale, 51, New York City department store owner, 15 October 1929.
Peter Bosch, 51, wallpaper manufacturer, 12 April 1922.
John V. Bouvier, stockbroker for fifty-one years, 2 January 1926.
David D. Buick, 74, pioneer automobile inventor and manufacturer, founder of Buick Motor Company, 5 March 1929.
Burns D. Caldwell, 64, president of Wells Fargo Ex-press, 24 September 1922.
A. G. Candler, 77, Coca-Cola founder, philanthropist, 12 March 1929.
Samuel Carr, Boston financier, 29 May 1922.
Henry J. Case, 84, pioneer inventor of harvesting machinery, partner in J. I. Case and Company, 31 August 1924.
William S. Champ, 55, Arctic explorer, baking powder manufacturer, 2 June 1924.
Frederick W. Chickering, 55, piano manufacturer, 14 October 1920.
J. W. Clark, 60, thread manufacturer, 15 July 1928.
William Andrews Clark, 86, copper magnate, financier, U.S. senator (D) from Montana (1899-1900, 1901-1907), 2 March 1925.
Louis W. Clarke, 79, pioneer telegrapher, 26 September 1921.
W. H. Coats, 62, chairman of J and P Coats thread-manufacturing company, 21 August 1928.
Herbert Seward Collins, 52, president of Union Tobacco Company, 22 September 1927.
James W. Corrigan, 47, steel manufacturer, 23 January 1928.
Eugene Victor Debs, 70, national secretary of Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen (1880); founder (1893) and first president of American Railway Union; organizer of Social Democratic Party of America (1897); Socialist presidential candidate (1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1920); founder (1905), with others, of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), 20 October 1926.
Charles Deering, 75, Chicago manufacturer of farm machinery, 5 February 1927.
Cleveland Hoadley Dodge, 66, founder of Phelps-Dodge Copper Corporation, 24 June 1926.
Horace E. Dodge, automobile manufacturer and co-founder, with John T. Dodge, of Dodge Motor Company, which merged with Chrysler Corporation, 10 December 1920.
John T. Dodge, 54, automobile manufacturer and co-founder, with Horace E. Dodge, of Dodge Motor Company, which merged with Chrysler Corporation, 14 January 1920.
Frank G. Drew, 55, president of Winchester Repeating Arms Company, 19 October 1928.
Alexis I. du Pont, 52, associate of E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company gunpowder manufacturer, 30 May 1921.
Biederman du Pont, 86, associate of E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company gunpowder manufacturer, 22 October 1923.
Philip F. du Pont, 49, associate of E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company gunpowder manufacturer, 17 May 1928.
William du Pont, 72, associate of E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company gunpowder manufacturer, 20 January 1928.
Benjamin N. Duke, 73, cigarette manufacturer; co-founder, with brother James B. Duke, of American Tobacco Company; major benefactor of Trinity College in Durham, North Carolina, renamed Duke University, 8 January 1929.
James B. Duke, 86, cigarette manufacturer; cofounder, with brother Benjamin N. Duke, and president of American Tobacco Company; major benefactor of Trinity College in Durham, North Carolina, renamed Duke University, 10 October 1925.
George Ehret, 91, brewer, 20 January 1927.
Edward H. Everett, 76, pioneer automobile manufacturer, 26 April 1929.
Leon Falk, 58, Pittsburgh Steel manufacturer, philanthropist, 20 October 1928.
Stuyvesant Fish, 71, railroad investor, banker, financier, associate of E. H. Harriman in development of rail systems, president of Illinois Central Railroad, 10 April 1923.
Julius Fleischman, 52, yeast manufacturer, 5 February 1925.
Jacob Gimbel, 71, coorganizer (1922), with brother Isaac Gimbel, of Gimbel Brothers, which by 1930 was the largest department store chain in the world, 7 November 1922.
Eugene Lewis Giroux, 66, mining engineer, associate of E. H. Harriman in development of rail systems, 31 March 1923.
Charles Jaspar Glidden, 70, pioneer in telephone industry, developer of far-reaching telephone system with his New England Telephone and Telegraph Company and Erie Telephone and Telegraph Company, promoter of long-distance automobile races such as the Glidden Tour, 11 September 1927.
Adolph Goble, 59, sausage manufacturer, Brooklyn, 25 March 1924.
Samuel Gompers, 74, organizer (1886), with others, and president (1886-1894, 1896-1924) of American Federation of Labor; member of Council of National Defense (1917) and Commission on International Labor Legislation at Treaty of Versailles (1919), 13 December 1924.
George Jay Gould, 59, president of Erie, Missouri Pacific, Texas and Pacific, Saint Louis Southwestern, and International and Great Northern Railroads, all inherited from his father, railroad tycoon Jay Gould, 16 May 1923.
Charles W. Gray, 52, president of Yellow Cab Company, 25 December 1927.
Isaac Guggenheim, 68, industrialist and mine owner, president of American Smelting and Refining Company, 10 October 1922.
Elwood Haynes, inventor of the automobile (1893-1894), who predated Ford's experiments by several years; organizer of Haynes-Apperson Company (1898) in Kokomo, Indiana, which continued as Haynes Automobile Company (1902-1925); discoverer of several alloys, including tungsten chrome steel and stainless steel, 13 April 1925.
William Dudley "Big Bill" Haywood, 58, labor leader and founder (1905), with others, of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW); member of Socialist Party (1901-1912); violence advocate; arrested and convicted of sedition (1917-1918) and fled to the Soviet Union while free on bail (1921), 18 May 1928.
Marcus Helm, 74, stockbroker and founder of Consolidated Exchange, 23 May 1929.
Percival S. Hill, 63, president of American Tobacco Company, 7 December 1925.
Clifford Milburn Holland, 40, chief engineer of the New York-New Jersey Interstate Bridge and Tunnel—subsequently named the Holland Tunnel—for vehicular traffic under the Hudson River, 27 October 1924.
Brian G. Hughes, 75, New York box manufacturer and practical joker, 8 December 1924.
Henry E. Huntington, 77, railroad executive and owner, organizer of urban and interurban transit systems in San Francisco and Los Angeles, founder of the public Huntington Library in San Marino, California, 23 May 1927.
James N. Jarvie, 75, American coffee importer, financier, philanthropist, 21 June 1929.
Jackson Johnson, 69, owner of the largest shoe-manufacturing company in the world, 23 January 1929.
George H. Jones, 81, chairman of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, 22 November 1928.
William L. Jones, president of Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, one of the leaders of "little steel," 25 November 1926.
John Reese Ken1y, 81, president of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, 1 March 1928.
Henrietta M. King, 93, owner of King Ranch in Kingsville, Texas, the world's largest ranch, 31 March 1925.
Charles Morgan Kittle, 47, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and former vice president of Illinois Central Railroad, 2 January 1928.
William Granville Lee, 69, twenty-year president of Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, 2 November 1929.
Marshall C. Lefferts, 79, celluloid manufacturer, book and art collector, 30 April 1928.
Edward Drummond Libbey, 71, glass manufacturer with Libbey-Owens-Ford Company, 13 November 1925.
Joseph S. Loose, 80, New York cracker manufacturer, 10 June 1922.
John M. Mack, motor-truck manufacturer, 14 March 1924.
Thomas Franklyn Manville Jr., 63, "Asbestos King" and president of Johns-Manville Company, 19 October 1925.
Jonathan Dixon Maxwell, 64, pioneer automobile maker whose company was taken over by Walter P. Chrysler and his Chrysler Corporation in 1925, 8 March 1928.
Ernest O. McCormick, vice president of Southern Pacific Railroad, 1 November 1923.
James Alexander McCrea, 48, vice president of Pennsylvania Railroad, 17 October 1923.
John McKesson Jr., 84, drug manufacturer with McKesson and Robbins Company, 5 September 1924.
Seth M. Milliken, 84, cotton manufacturer, 5 March 1920.
Charles H. Morse, 88, Chicago scales and machinery manufacturer, 5 May 1921.
William Herbert Murphy, 73, automobile manufacturer, art patron, 5 February 1929.
James Patrick Noonan, 51, president of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, vice president of American Federation of Labor, 4 December 1929.
James O'Sullivan, 83, rubber-heel maker who called himself "America's No. 1 Heel," 21 June 1929.
Henry T. Oxnard, 62, beet sugar manufacturer, 8 June 1922.
William Doud Packard, 62, engineer and inventor who, with brother James Ward Packard, founded Packard Electric Company (1890) and designed and built the Packard, a high-quality automobile (1899); associate in Packard Motor Company, 11 November 1923.
James A. Patten, 76, Chicago grain speculator known as the "Wheat King," philanthropist, 8 December 1928.
John Henry Patterson, 78, owner (1884-1922) of National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio, developer of merchandising techniques such as exclusive sales territory, 7 May 1922.
W. A. Patterson, 82, automobile manufacturer, 9 September 1921.
F. S. Peabody, 66, coal operator with Peabody Coal Company, 27 August 1922.
Edward Butler Pillsbury, 73, macaroni manufacturer, 10 August 1929.
Henry K. Porter, 81, locomotive manufacturer, 10 April 1921
Terence V. Powderly, 75, leader of Knights of Labor, a rival union of American Federation of Labor, 28 June 1924.
J. T. Pratt, 72, associate of John D. Rockefeller Sr., major stockholder in Standard Oil Company, developer of railroads and other industries, 23 August 1927.
Harley T. Proctor, 73, soap manufacturer with Proctor and Gamble Company, 15 May 1920.
Eliphalet Remington, 85, firearms manufacturer with Remington-Rand Company, 2 April 1924.
William Rockefeller, 81, brother of John D. Rockefeller who helped organize Standard Oil Company (1870) and managed company interests in New York; financier associated with copper interests, railways, and public-utility corporations, 24 June 1922.
Washington Augustus Roebling, 89, engineer and industrialist; associate of father John A. Roebling in designing and building the first suspension bridges in the United States, using steel cable; chief engineer of building the Brooklyn Bridge (1869-1883); director of Roebling cable-manufacturing plant (1888—1926) in Trenton, New Jersey, 21 July 1926.
John Summer Runnels, 84, former chairman of Pullman Company, 11 July 1929.
Edward Larned Ryerson, 73, steel producer, art patron, 19 January 1928.
Horace A. Saks, 43, department-store owner, 27 November 1925.
Rudolph J. Schaefer, 60, brewer, 9 November 1923.
Henry F. O. Schwarz, 59, toy dealer, 16 May 1925.
Charles L. Seabury, 61, yacht builder, 7 April 1922.
Joseph Seep, 89, pioneer petroleum producer and Rockefeller family associate, 1 April 1928.
George Baldwin Seiden, 77, lawyer and inventor who patented the first gasoline-driven vehicle, or "road engine" (1895), and collected royalties on his patent until 1911 when Ford Motor Company refused to pay royalties and won its case in court, 17 January 1922.
William George Sickel, 60, former president of United American Lines, 1 May 1929.
Sir Mortimer Singer, 65, an heir to the I. M. Singer and Company sewing-machine fortune, 24 June 1929.
Oberlin Smith, 86, die inventor, former president of National Geographic Society, 18 July 1927.
James M. Smyth, 57, telephone pioneer, 9 March 1920.
Edward Hamilton Squibb, 77, physician and drug manufacturer, partner in E. R. Squibb and Sons chemical and pharmaceutical laboratory (1892) in Brooklyn, New York, 7 July 1929.
B. M. Starks, 60, general manager of Louisville and Nashville Railroad, 28 November 1923.
Ellsworth Milton Statler, 64, hotel owner who organized (1904) chain of Statler luxury hotels, 16 April 1928.
Frederick T. Steinway, 67, piano manufacturer with Steinway and Sons, 17 July 1927.
Charles Chauncey Stilllman, 48, financier and banker for First National City Bank, 16 August 1926.
James Jackson Storrow, 61, Boston lawyer and banker, president of the executive council of Boy Scouts of America, 13 March 1927.
Leo Sulzberger, 40, merchant, philanthropist, 31 January 1927.
J. W. Surbrug, 66, tobacco and candy manufacturer, 29 May 1927.
Edmund H. Taylor Jr., 93, distiller, 10 January 1923.
C. P. Treat, 78, railway builder, 27 January 1927.
William Kissam Vanderbilt, 71, grandson of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt; chairman of Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad (1883-1903); president of New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railway (1882-1887); yacht owner and competitor in 1895 America's Cup race, 23 July 1920.
W. L. Velie, 62, automobile, airplane, and agricultural machinery manufacturer, 24 October 1928.
J. H. Wade, 68, Cleveland, Ohio, financier and philanthropist, 6 March 1927.
Samuel Wallach, 67, clothing manufacturer, 23 June 1929.
John Wanamaker, 84, merchant who, with brother-in-law Nathan Brown, founded (1861) men's clothing store in Philadelphia—by 1871 the largest retail men's clothing store in the United States—and expanded it into a department store (1877); early exponent of advertising and promotion, 12 December 1922.
Orville Taylor Waring, 84, pioneer with Standard Oil Company, 19 May 1923.
Hulbert Harrington Warner, 81, Rochester, New York medicine manufacturer, 27 January 1923.
John Isaac Waterbury, 78, financier, art patron, 4 March 1929.
W. S. Webb, 75, official of New York Central Railroad, pioneer sleeping-car builder, 1926.
Joseph H. Wesson, 60, president of Smith and Wesson firearms-manufacturing company, 30 April 1920.
Walter H. Wesson, 71, firearms manufacturer with Smith and Wesson Company, 29 November 1921.
Frank P. Wheeler, carburetor manufacturer, Indianapolis, 27 May 1921.
Amos Nelson Whiteley, 86, reaper manufacturer, philanthropist, 3 August 1925.
Eli Whitney, 77, financier, 12 June 1924.
Payne Whitney, 51, financier, sportsman, 25 May 1927.
Everett Wilson, 67, meatpacker, 30 May 1921.
Arthur S. Winchester, 87, rifle manufacturer with Winchester Repeating Arms Company, 11 January 1925.
Howard E. Wurlitzer, 57, musical instrument manufacturer, 30 October 1928.
Benjamin Franklin Yoakum, 70, railroad builder and owner, financier, 28 November 1929.
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