RichardWhitney was assumed to be a brilliant financier, he in fact had personally been involved ...for the artist RichardWhitney artist RichardWhitney August 1, 1888 December 5, 1974 was an United States ... . Biography RichardWhitney was born into a wealthy Boston, Massachusetts , family, growing up friends ... family of New York descends from Boston. RichardWhitney s father, George Whitney, Sr., of Boston .... 9, Series 3 , p. 648. ref and educated Richard and his older brother George Whitney, Jr., at Groton School and Harvard University . In 1910, RichardWhitney followed his brother, George Whitney, Jr., and moved to New York City where he established his own bond brokerage firm RichardWhitney & Co. Two years later, using money borrowed from his family, RichardWhitney & Co. purchased a seat on the New ... substantial business to Richard s brokerage. RichardWhitney married the widow Gertrude Sheldon ... that RichardWhitney was achieving great success, his brother George had also prospered at Morgan ... Thomas E. Dewey . Following his indictment by a Grand Jury , RichardWhitney was arrested and eventually .... Despite everything, RichardWhitney s wife and family stood by him and friend May Kinnicutt and her ... his brother owed. A model prisoner, RichardWhitney was released on parole in August 1941 after ... at the time of his death on December 5, 1974. ref cite news author coauthors title RichardWhitney ... quote RichardWhitney, the onetime president of the New York Stock Exchange who ... . NAME Whitney,Richard ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1888 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1974 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Whitney,Richard Category 1888 births Whitney Category 1974 deaths Whitney Category Groton School alumni Whitney, Richard Category Harvard University alumni Whitney, Richard Category American money managers Whitney Category American white collar criminals Category People from Boston, Massachusetts Whitney de RichardWhitney ... more details
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for the French pastry Financier pastry Unreferenced date March 2007 Financier pron en f n n s r , IPA fr fin sje lang is a term for a person who handles typically large sums of money , usually involving loan money lending , financing project s, large scale investment investing , or large scale money management. The term is French language French , and derives from finance or payment . The term financier has upscale and haughty connotations, and the stereotype portrayed by the term is typically of a wealthy and powerful person. A financier today can be someone who makes their living from investments , particularly in investing in up and coming companies and businesses . A financier makes money through this process when his or her investment is paid back with interest or from a certain percentage of the company awarded to them as specified by the business deal. Job prerequisites Officially, there are no degrees or schooling needed to be called a financier as it is a term to describe someone who handles money. Certain financier avenues do require degrees and licenses including venture capitalist s, stockbroker s, treasurer public treasurers , Trust Fund Manager trust fund managers , and accountant s. Investing, on the other hand, has no requirements and is open to all by means of the stock market or by word of mouth requests for money. The term financier can also refer to a member of the Italian Guardia di Finanza . Types of financiers Investor High net worth individual Trust Fund Manager Venture Capitalist Notable financiers Warren Buffett Anthony J. Drexel Calouste Gulbenkian Carl Icahn Kirk Kerkorian Edward Lampert Michael Milken J. P. Morgan T. Boone Pickens Nathan Mayer Rothschild Rothschild banking family of France Jacob Schiff Haym Solomon George Soros Ruben Vardanian See also Business magnate Philanthropy Usury Further reading Matthew Josephson Josephson, Matthew , The Money Lords the great finance capitalists, 1925 1950 , New York, Weybright and Talley, 1972 ... more details
for the British newspaper Financier and Bullionist Infobox Book name The Financier image Image Financier.JPG 200px image caption 1st edition author Theodore Dreiser illustrator cover artist country United States language English language English series A Trilogy of Desire genre Novel publisher Harper & Brothers release date 1912 in literature 1912 media type Print Hardcover Hardback & Paperback pages isbn NA followed by The Titan Published in 1912, The Financier , a novel by Theodore Dreiser , is the first volume of the Trilogy of Desire , which includes The Titan 1914 and The Stoic 1947 . Plot summary In Philadelphia , Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money by buying cheap soaps on the market and selling it back with profit to a grocer. Later, he gets a job in Henry Waterman & Company, and leaves it for Tighe & Company. He also marries an affluent widow, in spite of his young age. Over the years, he starts embezzling municipal funds. In 1871, the 1871 Great Chicago Fire Great Chicago Fire redounds to a stock market crash, prompting him to be bankrupt and exposed. Although he attempts to browbeat his way out of being sentenced to jail by intimidating Mr Stener, politicians from the Republican Party United States Republican Party use their influence to use him as a scapegoat for their own corrupt practices. Meanwhile, he has an affair with Aileen Butler, a young girl, subsequent to losing faith in his wife. She vows to wait for him after his jail sentence. Her father, Mr Butler dies she grows apart from her family. Frank divorces his wife. Sometime after being released, he invests in stocks subsequent to the Panic of 1873 , and becomes a millionaire ... financier 22 22charles yerkes 22 ref . Allusions to other works Frank is said to own sculptures by Harriet .... References reflist External links gutenberg no 1840 name The Financier, a novel Dreiser DEFAULTSORT Financier Category 1912 novels Category American novels Category Books by Theodore Dreiser Category ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 File Financiers.jpg thumb right Two financiers A financier is a small French cake, often mistaken for a pastry. The financier is a light, moist teacake , similar to sponge cake , and usually contains almond flour, crushed or ground almonds, or almond flavoring. The basis of the cake itself is beurre noisette brown butter , egg whites, powdered sugar and flour. Financiers are often baked in shaped molds. The name financier is said to derive from the traditional rectangular mold, which resembles a bar of gold. Another theory says that the cake became popular in the financial district of Paris surrounding Paris Bourse La Bourse du Commerce the former name of the Paris stock exchange . Financiers are often served topped with whipped cream, berries, or other fruit, and served accompanied by ice cream or other frozen confections. Financier pans are traditionally rectangular however, other shapes are not uncommon. Variants The friand pastry, which has become popular in Australia and New Zealand appears to have been based on the French financier however, Australian and New Zealand friands typically have additional flavorings such as coconut , chocolate , fruit , and Nut fruit nuts . Australian New Zealand friands are also baked in oval shapes. The French friand puff pastry wrapped around a sausage , known as a pigs in a blanket pig in a blanket , is not related to either the financier or the Australian New Zealand friand. DEFAULTSORT Financier Pastry Category French pastry Category Almonds Dessert stub es Financier fr Financier p tisserie ja ... more details
The Financier and Bullionist was a daily newspaper focussed on finance , published in London . The paper was established as The Financier in 1870. ref The London Quarterly Review, Issues 297 300 , p.264 ref In 1900, it merged with the Daily Bullionist , which had been established in 1866 as The Bullionist , and was renamed the Financier and Bullionist . ref James Willing, Willing s Press Guide, Volume 33 , p.30 ref In 1924, it was merged into the Financial News 1884 1945 Financial News . ref National Institute of Economic and Social Research, A Statistical Analysis of Advertising Expenditure , p.59 ref References references Defunct UK newspapers Category Business newspapers Category Publications established in 1870 Category Publications disestablished in 1924 Category Defunct newspapers of the United Kingdom Category 1870 establishments in the United Kingdom ... more details
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Whitney may refer to TOCright People Whitney surname Whitney given name Places Canada Whitney, Ontario United Kingdom Whitney on Wye , Herefordshire Witney , Oxfordshire United States Whitney, a neighborhood in Beverly, Visalia , California Whitney, California, former name of Lone Pine Station, California Whitney, Idaho Whitney, Maine Whitney, Nebraska Whitney, Nevada Whitney, Oregon Whitney, Texas Lake Whitney , a popular lake in Texas named after the nearby town Whitney Township, Michigan Mount Whitney , the highest peak in the continental United States Whitney High School Cerritos, California Whitney High School Rocklin, California David Whitney Building , skyscraper in Detroit, Michigan David Whitney House , historic residence in Detroit, Michigan Organizations J.H. Whitney & Company , the oldest venture capital firm in the U.S. Pratt & Whitney , aircraft engine maker Whitney & Company Leominster, Massachusetts Whitney Museum of American Art , in New York City Whitney National Bank , which has branches in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and Florida Events Whitney Biennial , a biennial art exhibition Music Whitney Houston , an American contemporary R&B singer and actress. Whitney album Whitney album , by American singer Whitney Houston. Mathematics Whitney umbrella in mathematics Fictional Whitney Dean , a fictional character in BBC soap opera EastEnders Whitney Pok mon , a Gym Leader in the Pok mon series Whitney Russell , a fictional character on the NBC soap opera Passions Other Whitney Awards given for achievement in Mormon fiction Whitney South Seas Expedition , scientific expedition to the South Pacific 1920 1932 Whitney v. California 274 U.S. 357 1927 , U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the conviction of a Communist Labor Party official disambig geo de Whitney fr Whitney ko it Whitney nl Whitney ja pl Whitney pt Whitney ru sv Whitney vo Whitney ... more details
Inline date February 2011 Isidore Jack Lyons 1 February 1916 18 February 2008 was a British financier and philanthropist . He was known as Jack Lyons CBE and Sir Jack Lyons CBE until he was stripped of those titles. After building up a substantial retail business, he was charged in 1987 in the Guinness share trading fraud . He was convicted, stripped of his knighthood and Order of the British Empire CBE , and was heavily fined. Subsequent judgments from the European Court of Human Rights held that his trial was not fair. However, the convictions of Lyons and the other members of the Guinness Four were upheld by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom . Success in Business Lyons was born in Leeds , where his father, an orthodox Jew who had immigrated from Poland in the 1880s, had established a men s clothing business, with a factory and a few dozen retail shops. Lyons attended Leeds Grammar School, leaving school at the age of 16, and later studied business at Columbia University NYC . While there, war was declared and Lyons could not return to the UK so he enlisted in the Canadian army but because of his poor eyesight, he was confined to working in the Board of Trade. He met his future wife, singer Roslyn Rosenbaum, in Canada, and, in 1944, he became an assistant director of the country s Prices and Trade Board. ref http news.scotsman.com obituaries Jack Lyons.3810369.jp Obituary in The Scotsman ref Along with his brother Bernard, he contributed considerably to the growth of the family business after the war, with the expansion of branches and the development of a lucrative export division during the early post war period. This enabled the business to grow rapidly into a large conglomerate of companies called United Drapery Stores ... Richard Shops , Allders of Croydon, John Collier, Timpsons, Alexandre Stores, John Blundell Credit ... Lyons, Isidore birthname SHORT DESCRIPTION British financier DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1916 PLACE ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 John Stewart was a Canadian financier and railway builder. He was born in Nedd , Assynt , Sutherland Sutherland, Scotland on 4 Dec 1860 died 24 Sep 1938 Vancouver, British Columbia , Canada. He started building and contracting with the Canadian Pacific Railway mainline, and went on to build branch lines for them in the Kootenays and Alberta. His Company Foley, Welch and Stewart constructed the PGE , Grand Trunk Pacific , and Canadian Pacific railways in BC. Unfortunately, Stewart became embroiled in the PGE debacle, and was taken to court over alleged overbilling during the construction contract. Stewart wrapped up the one company and formed another, Northern Construction with his son. He also became a large operator in the forest industry with the Bloedel, Stewart and Welch concern. Stewart served with the Royal Engineers Railway Operating Division in the First World War , achieving the rank of Major General. He owned a mansion, Ardvar , in Angus Drive, Shaughnessy Heights, Vancouver, and at one time owned all the land in his home parish of Assynt, Sutherland, Scotland. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Stewart, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1860 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1938 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Stewart, John Category 1860 births Category 1938 deaths ... more details
Multiple issues cleanup June 2009 unreferenced June 2009 William Henry Moore b. 25 Oct 1848, Utica, NY, d. 11 Jan 22, New York was a financier during the Robber Baron era of late 19th American capitalism. He was the father to Paul Moore, who chaired or sat on the board of many corporations founded by his father, United States Steel among them, and grandfather to Paul Moore Paul Moore Jr. , the 13th Episcopal Bishop of the Archdiocese of New York. He had a maternal ancestor who was an early graduate of Yale College, and earned and undergraduate degree from Amherst College . His son and grandson were prominent in Yale University affairs as undergraduates and alumni. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Moore, William H. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1848 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1922 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Moore, William H. Category 1848 births Category 1922 deaths Category American financiers Category Amherst College alumni ... more details
Robert Fleming 1845 1933 was a Scottish financier, the founder of merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co. Born the son of a shopkeeper in Dundee, he launched the Scottish American Investment Trust in 1873, the first of the Scottish Investment trust investment trusts . ref cite book last Fry first Michael title The Scottish Empire publisher Tuckwell Press year 2001 isbn 184158259X pages 270 ref He went on to become an international financier in London, establishing the investment bank that bore his name for more than a century and out of which the Fleming Collection of Scottish art ref name udpr cite web title Painting in Dundee publisher University of Dundee url http www.dundee.ac.uk pressreleases prjun02 fleming.htm date 2002 06 24 accessdate 2009 03 13 ref and the Fleming Collection Gallery was born. A contemporary of J Pierpont Morgan and a close business associate and friend of Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. , Fleming was widely known and respected in financial circles on both sides of the Atlantic. He was one of the shrewdest investors of his generation and an acknowledged expert in the financing of American railroads. Fleming never forgot Dundee, and made many generous bequests to the city and the new University College. The Fleming Gymnasium opened in 1905 ref cite web publisher Dictionary of Scottish Architects title DSA Building Design Report University College Dundee Fleming Gymnasium and Fives Courts url http www.scottisharchitects.org.uk building full.php?id 211514 accessdate 2009 03 13 ref and now housing Forensic Medicine still bears his name today. He was the father of Valentine Fleming and Philip Fleming . He was the grandfather of novelist Ian Fleming . ref name udpr External links http www.flemingcollection.co.uk index.php Fleming Collection Gallery References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Fleming, Robert ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1845 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1933 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Fleming ... more details
About the financier the film editor Pang Brothers Danny Pang zh c p P ng R ch ng , December 15, 1966 &ndash September 12, 2009 was a Taiwanese American private equity manager, who ran the Private Equity Management Group, Inc. and Private Equity Management, LLC PEMGroup which claimed to manage 4 billion. The funds were invested mainly on behalf of Taiwan ese investors, in American securities, timeshare properties, and insurance policies. He was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI on April 28, 2009 for structuring cash transactions to avoid a 10,000 reporting threshold, which has a maximum ten year prison sentence. ref name tgraph cite news last Quinn first James coauthors title US fund manager Danny Pang arrested over alleged fraud work Telegraph pages language publisher date April 28, 2009 url http www.telegraph.co.uk finance newsbysector banksandfinance privateequity 5240522 US fund manager Danny Pang arrested over alleged fraud.html accessdate April 29, 2009 location London ref The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in a civil suit alleged that he ran a Ponzi scheme and misreported his background to investors, by claiming that he had been a vice president ... first authorlink coauthors title SEC Freezes Assets of Financier Danny Pang for Misrepresenting Investments ... , hospital. ref name WSJDied cite news last Maremont first Mark title Financier Pang Has Died work ... title Highflying Financier Faces Questions Over Fund Empire work The Wall Street Journal page 1 ... Coppersmith first Scott authorlink coauthors title Accused Financier Danny Pang Dead work myFOXla.com ... Mark coauthors John R. Emshwiller title Police Eye Mysterious Death of Financier work Wall Street ... news date January 13, 2010 accessdate January 13, 2010 title Financier Pang s Death Ruled a Suicide ... first Crystal coauthors title FBI agents arrest Taiwanese financier Danny Pang work Taipei Times page ... first Stuart title O.C. financier used investor funds as personal piggy bank, report says work Los ... more details
Jerry Colonna is among the best known venture capitalists in New York City, and played a prominent part in Silicon Alley . He currently serves on the Board of Directors of 17 organizations, is a business coach, and teaches courses at Queens College, City University of New York Queens College . Early life Colonna attended and graduated from Queens College, City University of New York Queens College . Although he did extremely poorly in his studies in both College and High School, he managed to arrive at some minimal successes in life. Career With his partner, Fred Wilson financier Fred Wilson , Jerry launched Flatiron Partners in August 1996. Flatiron became one of the most successful, early stage investment programs in the New York City area, with investments in notable successes and failures such as comScore Networks, Geocities, New York Times Digital, PlanetOut, Return Path, Standard Media International, and Starmedia. Subsequent to Flatiron, Colonna was with JPMorgan Chase, and he was named co Executive Director of NYC2012, an organization representing New York City in the competition to host the 2012 Olympic Games. On July 2, 2001, Colonna was named to the Advisory Board of Silicon Alley Entrepreneurs Club. ref http findarticles.com p articles mi m0EIN is 2001 July 2 ai 76135491 ref Colonna also worked at CMG Ventures L.P. and CMP Media Inc. Personal Colonna lives in Port Washington, New York with his family. His daughter s name is Emma Colonna. References reflist External links http www.lycos.com info jerry colonna flatiron partners.html Colonna s page on Lycos http www.inc.com resources finance bio.html Jerry Colonna, Finance Capital Expert, Inc.com http mycrains.crainsnewyork.com 40under40 profiles 2001 268 40 under 40 Private equity investors Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Colonna, Jerry ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Colonna, Jerry Category Living people Category ... more details
Sir John Elliott Terry 11 June 1913 &ndash 29 March 1995 was a United Kingdom British film financier and lawyer who helped to found the National Film School and served as manager of the National Film Finance Corporation NFFC for over 20 years. He worked as a solicitor for the National Film Finance Corporation from 1949 to 1956, served as its secretary from 1956 to 1958, and was managing director from 1958 to 1978. During his time with the NNFC he supported hundreds of films and helped launch the careers of many well known directors, including Karel Reisz , Ken Loach , Ridley Scott and David Puttnam . In 1970 he was one of several people who helped to establish the National Film School and served as its governor until 1981. He was governor of the London International Film School from 1982 to 1990, and a governor of the Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford between 1980 and 1985. In 1975 he chaired Harold Wilson s Working Party on the Future of the British Film Industry , and later became Deputy Chairman of the Interim Action Committee on the Film Industry which was set up as a result of the report he had helped to compile. When the Government disbanded that committee, Terry, together with John Chittock and Michael Deeley , established the British Screen Advisory Council , of which he was made honorary vice president in 1993. He was knighted for his services to the film industry in 1976. Personal life Terry married Joan Fell in 1940. The couple had two children a son and a daughter. External links cite news url http www.independent.co.uk news people obituary sir john terry 1616572.html title Obituary Sir John Terry publisher The Independent date 22 April 1995 accessdate 18 February 2010 location London first Simon last Relph Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Terry, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Terry, John Category 1913 births Category 1995 deaths Category English ... more details
distinguish2 John Nixon Massachusetts , a Continental Army officer John Nixon 1733 1808 was a financier and official from Philadelphia who served as a militia officer in the American Revolutionary War . He was born in Philadelphia, the son of a shipping merchant. Upon the passage of the Stamp Act 1765 Stamp Act in 1765, he signed the non importation agreement against the Act, became active in opposing the encroachments of the Kingdom of Great Britain English government upon American liberties, and was a member of the first committee of correspondence in Pennsylvania . In April 1775, he became lieutenant colonel of the third battalion of the Philadelphia Associators , a militia unit. He was also a member of the Committee of Safety. From May to July 1776, he was in command of the defenses of the Delaware River Delaware at Fort Island, after which he was put in charge of the defenses of Philadelphia. On July 8, 1776, he made the first public proclamation of the United States Declaration of Independence Declaration of Independence from the steps of the Independence Hall United States Pennsylvania State House . The same year Nixon was promoted colonel and later served under George Washington Washington at the battle of Princeton . In 1776 he became a member of the Navy Board, and two years later was with Washington again at Valley Forge . In 1780 he became a director of the Bank of Pennsylvania . Afterward he assisted in organizing the Bank of North America , of which he was president from 1792 until his death. Nixon died in 1808 he was interred in the churchyard of St. Peter s Church, Philadelphia . Biographical Sketch blockquote NIXON, John, soldier, was born in Philadelphia. Pa., in 1733. His father was a wealthy shipping merchant who left his son his business at his death in 1756. John Nixon was among those who signed the non importation agreement of 1765, from which time on he was one of the leaders of the patriot cause in Philadelphia. He was a member of the first committee ... more details
Wikify date January 2011 Walter Boyd 1754 ? 1837 , was a financier. Boyd was born about 1754. Before the outbreak of the French revolution he was engaged as a banker in Paris, but the progress of events soon caused him to flee for his life, whilst the property of the firm of Boyd, Ker, & Co., of which he was the chief member, was confiscated in October 1793. On March 1793 the firm of Boyd, Benfield, & Co. was established in London. Boyd, as the principal partner, contributed 60,000l. to the common stock, and his name, connections, and exertions soon carried it to a great pitch of celebrity. He was zealously attached to Mr. Pitt, and enjoyed his confidence for many years advertisement to 2nd edition of Letter to Pitt . He was employed in contracting to the amount of over thirty millions for large government loans, and for some time was very prosperous. He was also M.P. for Shaftesbury 1796 1802 , which at the period of his election was a pocket borough of his partner Paul Benfield q. v. , who was returned along with him Hutchins, History of County of Dorset, iii. 19, 20, Westminster, 1868 . After a few years the firm got into difficulties. It had at one time seemed likely that the property seized at Paris would be restored, but the revolution of 4 Sept. 1797 caused the overthrow of the government which had taken the preliminary steps towards this restitution, and the final confiscation of the property followed. In expectation of a different issue, Boyd, Benfield, & Co. had entered into various arrangements which soon resulted in disaster. They obtained private help, and even assistance from government, but in 1799 the affairs of the company were put into liquidation, and Boyd found himself ruined. He visited France in the brief interval of peace March 1802 May 1803 , was one of the detained, and was not released till the fall of Napoleon in 1814. On his return to England he was able to recover something of his former prosperity, and sat as M.P. for the borough of Lymington ... more details
otherpeople Fred Wilson Infobox Person name Fred Wilson image FredWilsonJI1.jpg caption Fred Wilson 2009 birth date Birth date and age 1961 8 1961 birth place residence New York City New York , New York known for Venture Capital , Blogging relatives alma mater MIT , Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School Fred Wilson born August 20, 1961 is a New York City New York based venture capitalist active since 1987 and a prominent blogger. Through his well known blog and his investment in some of New York s notable start up companies over the past decade, he is recognized as a leading voice of the venture capital finance community in New York, TheFunded.com, a social networking site for entrepreneurs, rating him their favorite venture capitalist in 2007. ref http www.nytimes.com 2008 09 22 technology 22venture.html?ex 1379908800&en 83d7c21ee6f7a480&ei 5124&partner permalink&exprod permalink A New Kind of Venture Capitalist Makes Small Bets on Young Firms , New York Times September 21, 2008, a short profile of Union Square Ventures and Fred Wilson ref Wilson is the co founder of Union Square Ventures , a smaller 125 million in capital under management , newly formed, New York City based venture capital firm with investments in Web 2.0 companies such as Twitter , Foursquare , Bug Labs , Meetup , Zynga , Covestor , del.icio.us , Etsy , FeedBurner , Heyzap , Indeed.com , Tacoda , Oddcast , Disqus , Zemanta , and Clickable. In 1996, Wilson co founded Flatiron Partners with his partner Jerry Colonna financier Jerry Colonna . Flatiron, named after the Flatiron District , became a successful, primarily follow on investment fund in the New York City area, with investments in notable Dot com bubble successes and failures including Alacra, comScore Networks, Yoyodyne , Geocities , Kozmo.com , New York Times Digital, PlanetOut , Return Path, Scout electromedia , Standard Media International, Starmedia , and VitaminShoppe.com. ref cite news first Debra last Lau a ... more details
For other people of this name, see Benjamin Brewster . Benjamin Brewster June 30, 1828 &ndash August 23, 1897 was an United States American industrialist, financier, and one of the original trustees of Standard Oil . Early life Brewster was born in 1828 in Norwich, Connecticut to Patrick Brewster fourth great grandson of Mayflower Pilgrims Pilgrim William Brewster pilgrim William Brewster and Catharine Fanny Roath. ref name Brewster cite book title The Brewster Genealogy, 1566 1907 last Jones first Emma C. Brewster year 1908 publisher Grafton Press pages 351 3 url http www.archive.org details brewstergenealog190801jone ref He attended public schools in Norwich and went to work as a clerk in New York City . ref name Progress cite book title Men of Progress year 1898 publisher New England Magazine pages 287 9 url http books.google.com books?id NlwoAAAAYAAJ ref Business career In 1849 he headed West to join the California Gold Rush , establishing a general mercantile store in San Francisco soon after his arrival. His partner in this enterprise was Oliver Burr Jennings , and together they amassed a considerable fortune. ref name Brewster Brewster returned East in 1874 and settled permanently in New York City. Following his former partner Oliver Burr Jennings, who had married the sister of William Rockefeller s wife, he became involved with John D. Rockefeller in organizing the Standard Oil Company. When the Standard Oil Trust was formed in 1882 he served as a trustee. ref name Progress Brewster was prominently associated with the building of the Manhattan Elevated Railway and was also a financial leader in many large railroad transactions, particularly the reorganization of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway . He served as vice president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and was a director of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad and the Delaware and Hudson Railway Delaware and Hudson Canal Company . He was also a director of the Int ... more details
powerful man in America. ref Rappleye, Charles. Robert Morris Financier of the American Revolution ..., Financier of the Revolution. At the same time he was Agent of Marine, a position he took ... A history of American public finance, 1776 1790 1961 Rappleye, Charles. Robert Morris Financier of the American Revolution 2010 Ver Steeg, Clarence L. Robert Morris, Revolutionary Financier. Philadelphia ... www.amazon.com Robert Morris Financier American Revolution dp 1416570918 Biography by Charles Rappleye ... bg de Robert Morris Unternehmer es Robert Morris fr Robert Morris financier ... more details
Image 1795 JamesSwan byGilbertStuart MFABoston.jpeg thumb right Portrait of James Swan by Gilbert Stuart , 1795 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston James Swan 1754 July 31, 1830 was an early United States American patriot and financier. Born in Fife shire, Scotland, he moved at a young age to Boston , Massachusetts . In the 1770s and 1780s he worked as a clerk, and became involved in the political, military and business life of the city. Business took him to France in the 1780s, where he spent most of the rest of his life, including long years in debtor s prison. He died in Paris, shortly after release from prison. Biography Life in Boston, 1765 1787 Swan emigrated from Scotland to Boston in 1765. In Boston he worked in a counting house and as a shop clerk. He was a member of the Sons of Liberty , participated in the Boston Tea Party , ref Special Meeting, 1873 Tea Party Anniversary, in Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol. 13, 1873 1875 , pp. 151 216. ref ref http www.oldsouthmeetinghouse.org osmh 123456789files BostonTeaPartyParticipants.aspx Old South Meeting House website. ref and served in the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. Friends and associates included Perez Morton and Henry Knox . Image 1798 TremontSt Boston byARobertson SimonsUPNE.png thumb left Tremont Street in 1798 shows the vicinity of West Street and Haymarket Theatre Boston, Massachusetts Haymarket Theatre , looking south ref Simons. Boston beheld antique town and country views. UPNE, 2008 ref In 1776 he was married to Hepzibah Swan Hepzibah Clarke , and in the course of the marriage had four children Hepzibah Hepsy , born ca. 1777 Christiana Kitty , born ca.1778 Sarah Sally , born ca.1782 James Keadie, born ca.1783. Around this time Swan resided in the vicinity of Tremont Street in the former house of Stephen Greenleaf. ref Samuel Adams Drake. Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston. James R. Osgood and Co., 1873 p.313. ref On the site of Temple Place a colonial house surrounded ... more details
George Law an American financier, b. in Jackson, Washington Co., N.Y., 25 October 1806 d. in New York city, 18 November 1881. Early life George Law was born in Jackson, New York and his only early education had been obtained in a winter night school. At age of eighteen he left his father s farm and after walking to Troy, New York Troy , he learned the trades of masonry and stonemasonry in Hoosick, New York Hoosic . Next he obtained employment on the Delaware and Hudson Canal in 1825, then superintended the making of canal locks at High Falls. Afterward he went to the mountains of Pennsylvania to quarry stone for locks, and was employed as a mechanic on canals. In June, 1829, he obtained a contract for a small lock and aqueduct on the Delaware and Hudson Canal. Self taught he studied and made himself a good engineer and draughtsman and became a large contractor for the construction of railroads and canals. Investments in Rails and Shipping In August, 1837, one of his brothers was engaged in the construction of the Croton waterworks . He went to New York city, where he obtained contracts for sections of the aqueduct. In 1839 he obtained the contract for the High Bridge New York City High Bridge , by which it crosses Harlem River . In 1842 he took on the management of the Dry Dock bank. Later he purchased and extended the New York and Harlem Railroad and Mohawk Railroad . He bought the steamer SS Neptune in 1843, then built the SS Oregon in 1845. With Marshall O. Roberts and Bowes R. McIlvaine he formed the U.S. Mail Steamship Company and assumed the contract to carry the U. S. mails to California . The company built the SS Ohio and the SS Georgia and with the purchased SS Falcon in early 1849 carried the first passengers by steamship to Chagres , on the east coast of the Isthmus of Panama . Soon the rapid transit time the steamship lines and the trans isthumus passage made possible when the California Gold Rush began made it a very profitable company. That same year Law ... more details
File James white financier 1927.jpg thumb right James White in the 1920s James White 17 May 1877 29 June 1927 was an English financier, property developer and speculator. From a working class family in Lancashire , he worked at a number of jobs before becoming well known in the years before the First World War as a boxing promoter. From that, he moved into property and other transactions, making large sums of money in major deals. He became a racehorse owner and theatre proprietor. White finally overreached himself financially, and being unable to meet his huge liabilities, committed suicide at the age of 50. Life and career Early years White was born in Rochdale , Lancashire , the son of Thomas White, a bricklayer, and his wife, Catherine, n e Mullroy. He was educated at St John s Roman Catholic School, Rochdale. ref name dnb Corley, T. A. B. http www.oxforddnb.com view article 47876 White, James 1877 1927 , , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 24 March 2011 subscription ref Little is known of his early career it is on record that he worked in a cotton mill, and White said in 1925 that when he was 19, he and three others bought a circus in Rochdale, and that he later leased a theatre in Matlock in the adjoining county of Derbyshire . ref name op O.P. Club Dinner to Mr. James White . The Times , 16 February 1925, p. 9 ref In 1899, when he was 21, White married Annie Fetton, a worker in the wool industry. In 1900 he went to South Africa to work as a labourer on the railways, returning less than a year later. He became a builder and later bought and sold property and arranged finance for purchasers. In 1908 he suffered a financial failure and was declared bankrupt, although he ultimately paid all his debts in full. ref name dnb The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography records that Annie White died at an unknown date and White married a second time, having a son and three daughters with his second wife, Doris. ref name dnb ... more details
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