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00:01:32 1 Early life and early business experiences
00:05:55 1.1 Friendship with Abraham Lincoln, middle and later life in Illinois, and industrial contributions to Illinois and the United States
00:08:56 1.2 The J. &amp; J. W. Bunn Grocery Company
00:10:06 1.3 Illinois Watch Company and Sangamo Electric Company
00:12:55 1.4 Springfield Marine Bank
00:13:35 1.5 Selz, Schwab &amp; Company of Chicago
00:15:17 1.6 Contribution to the development of the Illinois insurance industry
00:16:05 1.7 Franklin Life Insurance Company
00:17:06 1.8 John Whitfield Bunn, Jacob Bunn, and Midwestern railroad development
00:17:46 1.9 Kansas City Air Line Railway Company
00:18:20 2 Mid life successes
00:18:29 2.1 Terre Haute &amp; Peoria Railroad Company; and Toledo, Peoria &amp; Western Railroad Company
00:19:05 2.2 North &amp; Southern Railway Company
00:19:23 2.3 Wabash Railway Company of Illinois
00:19:50 2.4 Wabash Eastern Railroad Company
00:20:35 2.5 Wabash Railroad Company
00:21:40 2.6 Springfield City Railway Company
00:22:05 2.7 Belleville City Railway Company
00:22:26 2.8 Chicago &amp; Alton Railroad Company
00:22:58 2.9 Chicago Secure Depository Company
00:23:39 2.10 Chicago Republican Newspaper Company and Chicago Inter-Ocean Company
00:24:48 2.11 J. Bunn Bank and debts resulting from 1878 bank failure
00:26:42 2.12 Springfield Iron Company and Springfield Gas &amp; Electric Company
00:28:26 2.13 John Whitfield Bunn and extended family in business and industry
00:29:09 2.14 George Whitfield Bunn and California banking, Texas petroleum, and land development
00:29:54 2.15 The New York City and Connecticut connections to finance and industry
00:31:07 2.16 Barnum &amp; Richardson Company of Connecticut and Chicago
00:33:40 3 Later life successes
00:33:49 3.1 Island Creek Coal Company
00:34:17 3.2 Henry Stryker Taylor and the Taylor-Stryker-Cunningham-Hart-Capps Lineage
00:39:37 3.3 Charles Cunningham, Esq.
00:40:17 3.4 John Stryker
00:40:55 3.5 William Beaumont Whitney of Philadelphia
00:42:44 3.6 A. G. Edwards and Edwards family of Illinois and St. Louis
00:43:10 3.7 Joseph Wellington Willard and the explosives industry
00:43:36 3.8 Extended family involvement with New York and California banking
00:44:16 3.9 The Hogan-Regan dynasty and international law, petroleum, and precious metals mining industries
00:49:54 4 Republican politics, civic philanthropy, and civic vision
00:51:44 4.1 John Whitfield Bunn, public works, and significant civic associations and contributions
00:54:37 4.2 City of Springfield, Illinois
00:55:01 4.3 Illinois Board of Agriculture
00:55:36 4.4 Illinois Pension Agency
00:55:59 4.5 University of Illinois
00:56:26 4.6 Chicago Historical Society, waterways development
00:57:03 4.7 United States Centennial International Exposition at Philadelphia



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This article concerns John Whitfield Bunn, Jacob Bunn, and the entrepreneurs who were interconnected with the Bunn brothers through association or familial and genealogical connection.John Whitfield Bunn (June 21, 1831 – June 7, 1920) was an American corporate leader, financier, industrialist, and personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, whose work and leadership involved a broad range of institutions ranging from Midwestern railroads, international finance, and Republican Party politics, to corporate consultation, globally significant manufacturing, and the various American stock exchanges. He was of great historical importance in the commercial, civic, political, and industrial development and growth of the state of Illinois and the American Midwest, during both the nineteenth century and the twentieth century. John Whitfield Bunn was born June 21, 1831, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Although every o ...