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Henry B. Plant

814275 — 2017-10-05 16:16:31 UTC

Henry was born October 27, 1819. He was involved with a lot of transportation's projects, but mostly with the railroads. Later on he became part of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Henry bought over 8 hotels but the most famous one that made him richer and richer was the hotel called "Tampa Bay Hotel" which cost him 3 million and was in a competition with another one. Plant became the founder of steamboats and the plant system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_B._Plant

Jay Cooke

814275 — 2017-10-05 16:17:03 UTC

Jay was born August 10, 1821.He was one of the American financier who helped with the Civil war. Jay Cooke made his most riches in coal, iron mining, life insurance, and the railroads. Cooke had set up his own banking house, partnership, and was also involved in selling the notes of the state banks. Jay invested in some silver mine that turned out to be bonanza, so he was able to sell his holdings for $1,000,000 even though he was at comfortable age and died on February 16, 1905. http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Jay_Cooke

Marshall Field

814275 — 2017-10-05 16:18:25 UTC

Marshall was born August 18, 1834. He was an American entrepreneur and was the founder of the Marshall Field company along with the Chicago department store. His business was then renowned for its level of quality and costumer service. Field was also born on a farm in Conway. He introduced sever policies copied by stores around the nation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Field

Charles Crocker

814275 — 2017-10-05 16:21:03 UTC

Crocker was born September 16, 1822. He was an American railroad executive who founded the Central pacific railroad. And was constructed with the westernmost portion of the first transcontinental railroad, and took control with partners of the Southern Pacific railroad. He became independent and started working on farms, a sawmill, and a forge. When he got married to Mary Ann they had four children , but died later on while being in a car accident and didn't fully recover so he had died two years later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Crocker

Leland Stanford

814275 — 2017-10-05 16:22:11 UTC

Leland was born March 9, 1824. He was an American tycoon, industrialist, politician, and was also the founder of Stanford university. In his years, he became a successful wholesaler along with a merchant who continued his business as he went on with his years. On September 30, he got married to a women and years later they both only had one son who was born when Leland was 40 years old. He was the director of Wells Fargo and continued to serve again until he died in 1893. Leland was a politic who had become one of the leading members of the Republican Party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Stanford

533003 — 2025-11-08 00:12:35 UTC

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