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The American millionaire philanthropist James Hazen Hyde, who inherited a majority share in Equitable Life Assurance Society, formed a collection of allegorical prints illustrating the Four Continents that are now at the New-York Historical Society ; Hyde's drawings and a supporting collection of sets of porcelain table ornaments and other decorative arts illustrating the Four Continents were shared by various New York City museums.
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American and millionaire
* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.
The Chester Beatty Library houses the famous collection of manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and decorative arts assembled by American mining millionaire ( and honorary Irish citizen ) Sir Alfred Chester Beatty ( 1875 – 1968 ).
The Red Guards then denounced Kim as a " millionaire, a revisionist, and a capitalist " who lived in splendor while American imperialists made war on Vietnam ( all the while ignoring Pyongyang's assistance to the DRV ).
* 1915 – Roger Milliken, American millionaire ( d. 2010 )
Also during the 1940s and 1950s, Wyoming millionaire William R. Coe made large contributions to the American studies programs at Yale University and at the University of Wyoming.
* September 22 – American millionaire Steve Forbes announces his candidacy for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination.
At the end, the doorman reads in the newspaper that he inherited a fortune from an American millionaire named U. G. Monen, a patron who died in his arms in the hotel bathroom.
By the time the American Civil War started in 1861, he was a millionaire and one of the richest men in the South, having amassed a " personal fortune that he claimed was worth $ 1. 5 million ".
In 1903 it was acquired and restored by the American millionaire William Waldorf Astor, who used it as a family residence.
John D. Rockerduck was born c. 1878 ( this is arguably in contrast to many stories where he seem to be at least 20 years younger than Scrooge ) to Howard Rockerduck, an American millionaire who had earned his fortune in the California gold rush of 1849.
Walker, the first African-American woman to become a millionaire by her own business achievements, it has been included as one of 26 featured sites on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
Born in London, Joyce was the daughter of architect Paul Phipps ( 1880 – 1953 ), the grandson of Charles Paul Phipps and a second cousin of Ruth Draper, and an eccentric American mother, Nora Langhorne ( 1889 – 1955 ), the daughter of Chiswell Langhorne, an American railway millionaire.
Eventually, the jewelled cat leads Wimsey to Cathcart's mistress of many years, who had left him for an American millionaire.
In 1895 he married Mary Victoria Leiter, the daughter of Levi Ziegler Leiter, an American millionaire of German Mennonite origin and co-founder of the Chicago department store Field & Leiter ( now Marshall Field ).
Gussie never actually marries Madeline, instead eloping with the daughter of an American millionaire, Emerald Stoker ( who was working as a cook at the Bassett mansion ).
* John Jacob Astor IV, American millionaire businessman, real estate builder, inventor, writer, was born in Rhinebeck.
Her mother was Gladys Virginia Stewart ( 1891 – 1947 ), an American, daughter of millionaire John Henry Stewart from Virginia, a diplomat who served as American Consul in Antwerp, Belgium, and his wife Mary Virginia Ramsay Harding.
Comstock was backed by Morris Ketchum Jessup, an American millionaire philanthropist who was a founder of the New York YMCA and the Museum of Natural History.
For example, in 1905 American millionaire George A. Kessler hosted a " Gondola Party " where the central courtyard was flooded to a depth of four feet and scenery erected around the walls.
They were reintroduced to the area by the RSPB and English Nature with assistance from Paul Getty, the American millionaire and philanthropist, who allowed use of the Wormsley estate.
In 1927, the American millionaire Charles Levine invited Kartvelishvili to New York, to join the Atlantic Aircraft Corporation in 1928 and in 1931 Kartvelishvili met the prominent engineer Alexander de Seversky, who was born in Georgia but was of Russian descent.
Walker ( December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919 ), born Sarah Breedlove, was an American businesswoman, entrepreneur and philanthropist, commonly regarded as the first African-American millionaire.
At her death she was considered to be the wealthiest African-American woman in America and known to be the first self-made female American millionaire.
American and philanthropist
* 1947 – Woody Johnson, American businessman and philanthropist
* 1875 – Katharine McCormick, American biologist, philanthropist, and activist ( d. 1967 )
* 1926 – Betsy Bloomingdale, American philanthropist
* 1964 – Melinda Gates, American businesswoman and philanthropist, co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
* 1930 – Warren Buffett, American businessman and philanthropist
* 1932 – Loretta Lynn, American singer-songwriter, author, and philanthropist
* 2012 – George Cowan, American chemist, businessman, and philanthropist ( b. 1920 )
* 1880 – Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and politician ( d. 1964 )
* 1897 – John W. Galbreath, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Darby Dan Farm ( d. 1988 )
* Moses H. Cone ( 1857 – 1908 ), an American textile entrepreneur, conservationist, and philanthropist
* Cyrus S. Eaton, American banker, investor, and philanthropist
After a substantial gift from Los Angeles philanthropist Ruth Ziegler, a new rabbinical school was formed at the American Jewish University ( then University of Judaism ) in Bel Air, California.
* 1904 – Joseph Moses Juran, American industrial engineer and philanthropist ( d. 2008 )
* 1993 – Alice Tully, American music promoter and philanthropist ( b. 1902 )
Dolly Rebecca Parton ( born January 19, 1946 ) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress, and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music.
Rex David " Dave " Thomas ( July 2, 1932January 8, 2002 ) was an American businessman and philanthropist.
Other notable supporters include Newark Mayor Cory Booker, former Governor of South Carolina Mark Sanford, billionaire and American philanthropist John T. Walton, Former Mayor of Baltimore Kurt L. Schmoke, Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and John McCain.
Elihu Yale ( April 5, 1649 – July 8, 1721 ) was an American merchant and philanthropist, governor of the East India Company settlement at Madras and a benefactor of the Collegiate School of Connecticut, which in 1718 was named Yale College in his honor.
In 1999, American Heritage magazine rated Elihu Yale the " most overrated philanthropist " in American history, arguing that the college that would later bear his name ( Yale University ) was successful largely because of the generosity of a man named Jeremiah Dummer, but that the trustees of the school did not want it known by the name " Dummer College ".
* 1944 – Ronald Lauder, American philanthropist and president of the World Jewish Congress
* 1933 – Peter L. Pond, American activist and philanthropist ( d. 2000 )
* 1861 – Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist ( d. 1949 )
For example, one key meeting location was in the U. S. at the Dakin Building, then owned by American philanthropist Henry Dakin, who had extensive Russian contacts: During the late 1980s, as glasnost and perestroika led to the liquidation of the Soviet empire, the Dakin building was the location for a series of groups facilitating United States-Russian contacts.
* 1924 – Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician ( d. 1998 )
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