When work on the line started in June 1898, it had been financed by the mining entrepreneur and company promoter Whitaker Wright, who fell foul of the law over the financial proceedings involved and dramatically committed suicide at the Royal Courts of Justice, after being convicted in 1904.

* George Francis Train ( 1829 – 1904 ), railroad promoter

** Henry John Lawson ( 1852 – 1925 ) 1896 – 1904 company promoter, floated Daimler on the London Stock Exchange and started the business

* George Adams ( businessman ) ( 1839 – 1904 ), Australian publican and lottery promoter, founder of Tattersall's

* William Henry Harrison Murray ( 1840 – 1904 ), American clergyman, author, and promoter of outdoor pursuits

Frederick Charles Gordon-Lennox, 9th Duke of Richmond, 9th Duke of Lennox, 4th Duke of Gordon ( 5 February 1904 – 2 November 1989 ) was a British peer, engineer, racing driver and motor racing promoter.

Raymond J. Ryan ( January 9, 1904 in Watertown, Wisconsin – October 18, 1977 ) was a gambler, oilman, promoter, and developer.

Rural free delivery was established in the fall of 1904 with Fred Cool, Charlie King and Henry Hurdelbrink as mail carriers.

In 1904, he was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Michigan against Republican Fred M. Warner.

Fred McDowell ( January 12, 1904 – July 3, 1972 ) known by his stage name ; Mississippi Fred McDowell, was an American Hill country blues singer and guitar player.

As Smith's son, Frederic L. Smith, came into the business, he and Olds clashed frequently until Fred Smith removed Olds from the position of vice president and general manager in 1904 and Olds left his company.

The Allison Engine Company was a U. S. aircraft engine manufacturer that has its roots dating back to September 1904, when the Concentrated Acetylene Company was founded by James Allison, Percy C. ' Fred ' Avery and Carl G. Fisher.

In 1904 and 1907, she produced and sold pottery at the Grand Canyon lodge owned by the Fred Harvey Company.

Frederick William " Fred " Schule ( September 27, 1879 – September 14, 1962 ) was an American athlete and winner of 110 m hurdles at the 1904 Summer Olympics.

In 1904 John Eglinton started the journal Dana, to which Fred Ryan and Oliver St John Gogarty contributed.

Milburn Stone ( July 5, 1904 – June 12, 1980 ) was an American television actor, a nephew of Broadway comedian Fred Stone and the son of a shopkeeper, best known for his role as " Doc " ( Dr. Galen Adams ) on the CBS western series Gunsmoke.

* Fred McDowell ( 1904 – 1972 ), blues singer and guitar player

In 1904 and 1905, the two eldest brothers, Fred and Charles, came to Detroit where their uncle Albert Fisher had established Standard Wagon Works during the latter part of the 1880s.

In 1904 Cooper and Fred S. Bertsch formed the design firm of Bertch & Cooper, providing ad campaigns for such accounts as the Packard Motor Car Company and Anheuser-Busch Breweries, with Cooper providing distinctive hand lettering and sometimes the copy writing as well.

By 1904, Principal Fred Smith had gotten the school moved to a new ( bigger ) building on the southeast corner of Winchester and Campbell Avenues.

* Bun Cook ( 1904 – 1988 ), real name Fred Cook, ice hockey player

Two companies to use the 1904 medal were Jack Daniel's whiskey ( which still use it on their bottles to this day ) and Binney & Smith.

In April 1904 at the St. Louis World's Fair, Binney & Smith won the Gold Medal for their An-Du-Septic dustless chalk.

In 1904, he travelled to Berlin to study philosophy, but set aside his studies soon and began a career as a professional chess player that same year.

In 1904, William Randolph Hearst began publishing his own newspaper in Boston called The American.

He lived with the Elkingtons until 1904, when he moved into his own bungalow and began earning a living working on the Non Pareil tea estate below the Horton Plains.

During these years Trotsky began developing his theory of permanent revolution, which led to a close working relationship with Alexander Parvus in 1904 – 1907.

In 1904, Weber began to publish some of his most seminal papers in this journal, notably his essay The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, which became his most famous work and laid the foundations for his later research on the impact of cultures and religions on the development of economic systems.

The revolution of August 1904 began as a popular movement, but Liberal rule quickly degenerated into factional feuding, military coups, and civil war.

From 1900 on, he began lecturing about concrete details of the spiritual world ( s ), culminating in the publication in 1904 of the first of several systematic presentations, his Theosophy: An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos, followed by How to Know Higher Worlds ( 1904 / 5 ), Cosmic Memory ( a collection of articles written between 1904 and 1908 ), and An Outline of Esoteric Science ( 1910 ).

Production at Spindletop began to decline rapidly after 1902, and the wells produced only by 1904.

According to Crowley, the story began on 16 March 1904, when he tried to " shew the Sylphs " by use of the Bornless Ritual to his wife, Rose Edith Kelly, while spending the night in the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Around 1904, however, dryer French vermouths began to be used in the cocktail.

Having ended his international career, Grace then began the last phase of his overall first-class career when he joined the new London County Cricket Club, based at Crystal Palace Park, which played first-class matches between 1900 and 1904.

In 1904, the British School at Athens began a thorough exploration of Laconia, and in the following year excavations were made at Thalamae, Geronthrae, and Angelona near Monemvasia.

In his first term, President Theodore Roosevelt, following President McKinley's assassination of 1901, began trust-busting and anti-corporate-influence activities, but fearing defeat, turned to bankers and industrialists for support in what turned out to be his 1904 landslide campaign.

The campus began to take shape in the Beaux-Arts architecture style of Henry Hornbostel, winner of the 1904 competition to design the original institution and later the founder of what is now the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture.

Stratemeyer began writing other series books: The Bobbsey Twins first appeared in 1904, under the pseudonym Laura Lee Hope, and Tom Swift in 1910, under the pseudonym Victor Appleton.

At the age of 20 ( 1904 ) he began studying in the military institute founded by Lu Jianzhang at Beijing and had since become Lu's favorite.

Fauvism as a style began around 1900 and continued beyond 1910, the movement as such lasted only a few years, 1904 – 1908, and had three exhibitions.

The joint collection of Gertrude and Leo Stein began in late 1904 when Michael Stein announced that their trust account had accumulated a balance of 8, 000 francs.

In 1904 Stein began this fictional account of a scandalous three-person romantic affair involving a dean ( M. Carey Thomas ) and a faculty member ( Mary Gwinn ) from Bryn Mawr College and a Harvard graduate ( Alfred Hodder ).

The Woodstock Art Colony in Woodstock, New York began as two colonies: first Byrdcliffe, founded in 1902 by Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, Hervey White, and Bolton Brown, and then the Maverick Colony, founded by Hervey White after seceding from Byrdcliffe in 1904.

When the red turn-downs were added to the socks in 1904, the strip began to look more like the modern day Rangers home kit.

The Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland ( 1905 – 1907 ) began in Częstochowa as early as May 1904, when first patriotic rallies took place.

Legal powers were granted that year, and extensive groundwork and slum clearance were carried out until 1904, when construction on the terminus proper began.