The 1930s: Business and the Economy: Deaths

THE 1930s: BUSINESS AND THE ECONOMY: DEATHS

Warren Bechtel, 60, railroad builder and construction magnate, helped build the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and Boulder Dam, 28 August 1933.

Hernand Behn, 53, capitalist, founder of International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, 7 October 1933.

Robert Somers Brookings, 71, Saint Louis woodenware merchant and philanthropist, generous contributor to Washington University, founder of the Brookings Institution, 15 November 1932.

James A. Campbell, 79, steel manufacturer, president of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, third largest in the United States, 20 September 1933.

Howard Earle Coffin, 64, automobile engineer and industrialist, organized the Hudson Motor Car Company, chairman of the Aircraft Board during World War I, 21 November 1937.

William Sloane Coffin, 54, New York furniture maker and real estate magnate, 16 December 1933.

Gilbert Colgate, 74, president of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company, grandson of the founder of Colgate Soap Manufacturing, 5 January 1933.

William Ellis Corey, 68, steel manufacturer, former president of U.S. Steel, 11 May 1934.

Robert Dollar, 87, West Coast shipping magnate and lumberman, president of the Dollar steamship company, 16 May 1932.

Alfred I. du Pont, 70, former vice president and general manager of the Du Pont Company, chief stockholder, Florida real estate developer, 29 April 1935.

George Eastman, 77, photographer and philanthropist, inventor of many processes for photography, founder and chairman of Eastman Kodak, 14 March 1932.

Edward A. Filene, 77, Boston retailer and philanthropist, 26 September 1937.

Harvey S. Firestone, 69, rubber manufacturer, founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber, 7 February 1938.

King Camp Gillette, 77, industrialist, inventor of the safety razor, president of the Gillette Safety Razor Company, 10 September 1932,

William Charles Gotshall, 60, electrical railway engineer, developer of high-speed electric traction, 20 August 1935.

Carl Raymond Gray, 71, railroad executive, president of the Union Pacific Railroad (1920-1937), 9 May 1939.

Murry Guggenheim, 81, mining industrialist and philanthropist, 15 November 1939.

Charles Hayden, 66, Boston financier and philanthropist, 8 January 1937.

Morris Hillquit, 63, labor organizer and leader of the Socialist Party of the United States, 7 October 1933.

Samuel Insull, 78, public utilities magnate, fled the United States under indictment for fraud, extradited and found innocent in 1934, 16 July 1938.

Ralph Burkett Ives, 60, insurance executive, president and chairman of the Aetna Fire Insurance Company, 2 January 1934.

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, 100, fiery orator and legendary labor organizer for the United Mine Workers, 30 November 1930.

Otto Hermann Kahn, 63, railroad financier and banker, senior partner in Kuhn, Loeb and Company, classical music philanthropist, 29 March 1934.

Ivy Ledbetter Lee, 57', public relations expert, founder of Ivy Lee and Associates in 1916, public relations firm for some of the largest industrial interests in the United States, 9 November 1934,

Adolph Lewisohn, 89, mining financier and philanthropist, 17 August 1938.

James Loeb, 65, banker and philanthropist, member of the New York banking firm Kuhn, Loeb and Company, publisher of the Loeb Classical Library, supporter of classical music and literature, 27 May 1933,

Franklin MacVeagh, 96, grocer, banker, and secretary of the treasury (1908-1913), 6 July 1934.

Stephen Tyng Mather, 52, manufacturer and advertiser, developed the famous "Twenty-Mule Team" slogan for the Pacific Coast Borax Company, first director of the National Park Service (1917-1929), 22 January 1930.

Cyrus Hall McCormick, 77, inventor of the reaping machine, founder of International Harvester Corporation, 2 June 1936.

Andrew W. Mellon, 82, financier, founder of the Aluminum Company of America, secretary of the treasury (1921-1932), art philanthropist, 26 August 1937.

Richard Beatty Mellon, 74, financier, president of Mellon National Bank, director of numerous industrial interests, 1 December 1933.

Charles Wyman Morse, 77, speculator and shipping magnate; his illegal banking practices resulted in a fifteen-year jail sentence in 1908; pardoned by President William H. Taft in 1912, after which he returned to the shipping business; indicted again in 1922 on charges of fraud, 12 January 1933.

William Cooper Proctor, 71, president and chairman of Proctor and Gamble Company, son of the founder, 2 May 1934.

John D. Rockefeller, 97, America's first billionaire, founder of Standard Oil, 23 May 1937.

Julius Rosenwald, 69, wholesaler and philanthropist, head of Sears, Roebuck and Company, in 1917 founded the Rosenwald Fund to assist black education, 6 January 1932.

Jacob Schick, 59, manufacturer of electric razors, July 1937.

Charles M. Schwab, 77, industrialist, president of the U.S. Steel Corporation (1901-1903), head of Bethlehem Steel for thirty-five years, 18 September 1939.

Edwin R. A. Seligman, 78, economist, founder of the American Economic Association, tax expert whose advice was sought for many pieces of federal and state legislation, 18 July 1939.

Harry C. Stutz, 53, automobile manufacturer, formed the Ideal Motor Car Company (1911-1919), 26 June 1930.

William Boyce Thompson, 60, mining industrialist and financier, headed the American Red Cross mission to Russia in 1917, 27 June 1930.

Frederick William Vanderbilt, 82, railroad director, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, noted for his skill as a yachtsman, 2 June 1939.

Frank A. Vanderlip, 72, banker, assistant secretary of the treasury during the Spanish-American War, 29 June 1937.

Charles R. Walgreen, 66, merchant and retailer, founder of Walgreen Drug Stores, 11 December 1939.

Graham Wallas, 74, British economist whose work was influential in the United States, especially his 1914 book The Great Society, 10 August 1932.

Felix Warburg, 66, banker, partner in Kuhn, Loeb and Company, heavy contributor to Jewish philanthropies, 20 October 1937.

Henry Parker Willis, 62, economist, helped create the Federal Reserve System, 18 July 1937.