The Wealthy 100,9780806518008

The Wealthy 100

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ISBN13: 9780806518008
ISBN10: 0806518006
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1996-12-01
Publisher(s): Carol Pub Group
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

How Rich Were They? xi
Preface xv
John D. Rockefeller Oil
2(7)
Cornelius Vanderbilt Shipping
9(9)
John Jacob Astor Fur/Land
18(8)
Stephen Girard Banking
26(3)
Andrew Carnegie Steel
29(5)
Alexander Turney Stewart Retailing
34(4)
Frederick Weyerhaeuser Lumber
38(3)
Jay Gould Finance
41(5)
Stephen Van Rensselaer Land (inherit)
46(3)
Marshall Field Retailing/Land
49(3)
Henry Ford Automobiles
52(8)
Andrew W. Mellon Banking
60(1)
Richard B. Mellon Banking
61(4)
Sam Moore Walton Retailing
65(5)
James G. Fair Mining
70(5)
William Weightman Chemicals
75(3)
Moses Taylor Banking
78(3)
Russell Sage Finance
81(4)
John I. Blair Railroads
85(3)
Cyrus H. K. Curtis Publishing
88(3)
Edward Henry Harriman Railroads
91(4)
Henry Huddleston Rogers Oil
95(3)
John Pierpont Morgan Finance
98(6)
Col. Oliver H. Payne Oil/Finance
104(2)
Henry C. Frick Steel
106(4)
Collis Potter Huntington Railroads
110(7)
Peter A. Widener City Transit
117
James Cair Flood Mining
70(50)
Nicholas Longworth Land
120(3)
Philip Danforth Armour Meatpacking
123(3)
Bill Gates Software
126
Mark Hopkins Railroads
110(23)
Edward Clark Sewing machines
133
Leland Stanford Railroads
111(26)
William Rockefeller Oil
137(2)
Hetty Green Finance
139(3)
James Jerome Hill Railroads
142(3)
Elias Hasket Derby Merchant/Shipping
145(3)
Warren Buffett Finance
148(5)
Claus Spreckels Sugar
153(3)
George Peabody Finance
156
Charles Crocker Railroads
111(48)
William Andrews Clark Mining
159(4)
George Eastman Photography
163(3)
Charles L. Tiffany Jewelry
166(3)
Thomas Fortune Ryan City Transit
169(4)
Edward Stephen Harkness Oil (inheritance)
173(3)
Henry M. Flagler Oil/Resorts
176(5)
James Buchanan Duke Tobacco
181(5)
Israel Thorndike Merchant/Shipping
186
William S. O'Brien Mining
71(62)
Issac Merritt Singer Sewing machines
133(55)
George Hearst Mining
188(3)
John Hancock Merchant/Shipping
191(3)
John W. Garrett Railroads
194
John W. Mackay Mining
71(126)
Julius Rosenwald Catalog retailing
197(5)
George F. Baker Banking
202(3)
George Washington Land
205(5)
Anthony N. Brady Transit/Utilities
210(3)
Adolphus Busch Beer
213(3)
John T. Dorrance Canned goods
216(4)
George M. Pullman Railroad cars
220(4)
Robert Wood Johnson, Jr. Medical supplies
224(3)
John Francis Dodge Automobiles
227(1)
Horace Elgin Dodge Automobiles
227(4)
J. Paul Getty Oil
231(5)
William H. Aspinwall Shipping
236(3)
Johns Hopkins Merchant/Railroads
239(3)
John Werner Kluge Communications
242(4)
Samuel Colt Guns
246(4)
James Stillman Banking
250(3)
William Collins Whitney Transit
253(3)
William Thaw Canals/Railroads
256
Paul Allen Software
127(132)
Cyrus H. McCormick Farm equipment
259(4)
Arthur Vining Davis Aluminum
263(3)
Thomas Handasyd Perkins Merchant/Shipping
266(4)
Joseph Pulitzer Publishing
270(4)
Daniel Willis James Merchant
274(2)
Howard Hughes Oil/Aviation
276(5)
Frank W. Woolworth Retailing
281(3)
John McDonogh Land
284(4)
Samuel Slater Textiles
288(3)
August Belmont Finance
291(3)
Benjamin Franklin Land/Printing
294(3)
Sumner Murray Redstone Communications
297(3)
Capt. Robert Dollar Shipping
300
Richard Warren Sears Catalog retailing
197(107)
H. L. Hunt Oil
304(5)
Jay Van Direct merchandising
309(1)
Richard Marvin DeVos Direct merchandising
309(4)
Henry Phipps Steel
313(3)
Lawrence J. Ellison Software
316(3)
Ronald Owen Perelman Finance
319(3)
Peter Chardon Brooks Merchant/Shipping
322(3)
Charles W. Post Cereals
325(4)
Samuel I. Newhouse Publishing
329(4)
William Wrigley, Jr. Chewing gum
333(3)
David Packard Computers
336(4)
Afterword: Who Are the Wealthy 100? 340(5)
Notes 345(4)
Select Bibliography 349(2)
Picture Acknowledgments 351(2)
Index 353

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