The wealthy 100 : from Benjamin Franklin to Bill Gates-- a ranking of the richest Americans, past and present
In America, while all men and women may be created equal, they do not all end up that way. This book ranks an elite group: the richest Americans in American history. The Wealthy 100 offers intimate, often surprising portraits of these individuals and how they amassed their fortunes. The rankings are based on estimated total wealth at the time of death - or a given year for current living Americans - as a percentage of the Gross National Product (GNP) in current dollars for that year. This allows the authors to compare the fortunes of people from different centuries
Biography
xxii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780806518008, 0806518006
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How Rich Were They?
John D. Rockefeller: Oil
Cornelius Vanderbilt: Shipping
John Jacob Astor: Fur/Land
Stephen Girard: Banking
Andrew Carnegie: Steel
Alexander Turney Stewart: Retailing
Frederick Weyerhaeuser: Lumber
Jay Gould: Finance
Stephen Van Rensselaer: Land (inherit)
Marshall Field: Retailing/Land
Henry Ford: Automobiles
Andrew W. Mellon: Banking
Richard B. Mellon: Banking
Sam Moore Walton: Retailing
James G. Fair: Mining
William Weightman: Chemicals
Moses Taylor: Banking
Russell Sage: Finance
John I. Blair: Railroads
Cyrus H. K. Curtis: Publishing
Edward Henry Harriman: Railroads
Henry Huddleston Rogers: Oil
John Pierpont Morgan: Finance
Col. Oliver Payne: Oil/Finance
Henry C. Frick: Steel
Collis Potter Huntington: Railroads
Peter A. Widener: City Transit
James Cair Flood: Mining
Nicholas Longworth: Land
Philip Danforth Armour: Meatpacking
Bill Gates: Software
Mark Hopkins: Railroads
Edward Clark: Sewing machines
Leland Stanford: Railroads
William Rockefeller: Oil
Hetty Green: Finance
James Jerome Hill: Railroads
Elias Hasket Derby: Merchant/Shipping
Warren Buffett: Finance
Claus Spreckels: Sugar
George Peabody: Finance
Charles Crocker: Railroads
William Andrews Clark: Mining
George Eastman: Photography
Charles L. Tiffany: Jewelry
Thomas Fortune Ryan: City Transit
Edward Stephen Harkness: Oil (inheritance)
Henry M. Flagler: Oil/Resorts
James Buchanan Duke: Tobacco
Israel Thorndike: Merchant/Shipping
William S. O'Brien: Mining
Isaac Merritt Singer: Sewing machines
George Hearst: Mining
John Hancock: Merchant/Shipping
John W. Garrett: Railroads
John W. Mackay: Mining
Julius Rosenwald: Catalog retailing
George F. Baker: Banking
George Washington: Land
Anthony N. Brady: Transit/Utilities
Adolphus Busch: Beer
John T. Dorrance: Canned goods
George M. Pullman: Railroad cars
Robert Wood Johnson, Jr.: Medical supplies
John Francis Dodge: Automobiles
Horace Elgin Dodge: Automobiles
J. Paul Getty: Oil
William H. Aspinwall: Shipping
Johns Hopkins: Merchant/Railroads
John Werner Kluge: Communications
Samuel Colt: Guns
James Stillman: Banking
William Collins Whitney: Transit
William Thaw: Canals/Railroads
Paul Allen: Software
Cyrus H. McCormick: Farm equipment
Arthur Vining Davis: Aluminum
Thomas Handasyd Perkins: Merchant/Shipping
Joseph Pulitzer: Publishing
Daniel Willis James: Merchant
Howard Hughes: Oil/Aviation
Frank W. Woolworth: Retailing
John McDonogh: Land
Samuel Slater: Textiles
August Belmont: Finance
Benjamin Franklin: Land/Printing
Sumner Murray Redstone: Communications
Capt. Robert Dollar: Shipping
Richard Warren Sears: Catalog retailing
H. L. Hunt: Oil
Jay Van Andel: Direct merchandising
Richard Marvin DeVos: Direct merchandising
Henry Phipps: Steel
Lawrence J. Ellison: Software
Ronald Owen Perelman: Finance
Peter Chardon Brooks: Merchant/Shipping
Charles W. Post: Cereals
Samuel I. Newhouse: Publishing
William Wrigley, Jr.: Chewing gum
David Packard: Computers
Afterword: Who Are the Wealthy 100? - Notes
Select Bibliography - Index
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