"The Business of America is Business" -Calvin Coolidge

Business History

The Basics of Business History: Top 100 Events at a Glance

Center for the History of Business

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John Jacob Astor (real estate, fur) - New York City
Andrew Carnegie (railroads, steel) - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Jay Cooke (finance) - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Charles Crocker (railroads) - California
Daniel Drew (finance) - New York state
James Buchanan Duke (tobacco) - near Durham, North Carolina
James Fisk (finance) - New York state
Henry Flagler (railroads, oil, the Standard Oil company) - New York City and Palm Beach, Florida
Henry Ford (automobile) - Dearborn, Michigan and metropolitan Detroit, Michigan
Henry Clay Frick (steel) - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and New York City
John Warne Gates (steel, oil) - Chicago and Texas
Jay Gould (finance, railroads) - New York (both state and city)
Edward Henry Harriman (railroads) - New York state
Collis P. Huntington (railroads) - California, Virginia, and New York
Andrew Mellon (finance) - Pennsylvania
J. P. Morgan (finance) - New York
Mark Hopkins (railroads) - California
John D. Rockefeller (oil) - Cleveland, Ohio
Leland Stanford (railroads) - Sacramento, California and San Francisco, California
Cornelius Vanderbilt (railroads, shipping) - New York City, New York
James J. Hill (railroads) - St. Paul, Minnesota
George Mortimer Pullman (railroads) - Pullman, Chicago