Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-05-04
WEALTHY MEN OF AMERICA.


humble beginnings. In the subjoined
list no man is mentioned who is not be-
lieved to be worth 5000, 900 or over.
An extraordinary coterie Of rich men
were those who acted as pall-bearers at
the funeral of Weston Dobson of Beth
lehem, Pa, himself worth $6,cO0,0 900.
Dobson's pall-bearers were thirteen in
number, and the average wealth each
man represented was nearly $4,000, 900.
The total wealth of the thirteen was
800, 900, 900. They were E.. p. Wilbur,
President of the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road; Gen. W. E. Doster, Robert
Packer Linderman, grandson of the late
Asa Packer; William Chapman, the
millionaire slate manufacturer; Robert
FL. Sayre, Samuel B Price, E. B. Lei
senring, Stanley FL. Goodwin, George
Fl. Meyers, Robert Lockhart, ex-Sena-
tor Eckley b. Coke, whose fortune is
estimated at $40, 900, 900, John Thomas,
and Daniel Bertsh, the two latter the
chief railroad and coal barons of the Lee
high Valley.
IL. Letter, Washington, D. G., be-
gan life poor, and is now worth $10,-
100000, made mostly in dry goods in
Chicago.
Vice President Morton is worth &c.
DOC, 900, and did not have large nest
egg to start with.
caldwell Cole, owner of the yacht
Dauntless, is bachelor, IS, and worth
$6,000,000. Mr. Cole is one of the few
rich men who have inherited most of
their fortune.
A. M. Cannon, Washington Terri
tory, peddled sewing machines through,
Oregon, and is now rated at $4,000, 000.
Ex-senator Palmer, of Michigan,
married fortune and is worth &c.
100000.
Claus Spreckels is rated as high as
$2O,OOO,OOO.
A. J. Drexel, of Philadelphia, is
worth $40, 100000.
Philip Armour, Chicago, began life
as butcher boy, and now has $780,
100000.
James J. Hill, President of the Mani
toba Railroad, began earning money by
working on the St. Paul leves for $50
month. He was afterward agent at
st. Paul for line of railroad steamers.
Mr.. Hill is now worth $15, 100000.
John I. Blair, Blairstown, N. j., is
worth $40, 100000, and began business
by selling plug tobacco and notions.
Robert Bonner, New York, began poor
and has $6,000,O0O.
James Mcmillan, Detroit, has made
$1O,OOO,OOO.
The Astor heirs will inherit $780,
100000 mostly in gilt-edged real es-
state.
G. P. Huntington, the railroad mag
nate, was once poor man, and is worth
$40,000,OOO.
Montgomery Sears, Boston, inherited
100000 from his father, but had to
contest the will to get it. He is be-
ieved to be worth $12, 100000. His IA
ther began life poor.
George NJ Pullman, the palace-car
man, began life in small furniture
business in Albany, N. Y. He began
with $50 and now has $5,OO0,0OO.
B. o. Hutchinson, "Old Hutch"
started life at the shoemakers bench at
Lynn. Mass. He is worth $S,00O,OO0.
George Ehret, New York beer king
is but 40 years old and worth SIS, O00,-
600. "He was so poor few years ago
when he reached this country that he
could not speak the English language"
is the way his financial condition was
expressed to the writer.
Gen. Russell A. Alger, of Detroit, is
worth 100000 and more.
Senator John P. Jones came to this
country from Wales and went gold
hunting in 40. He is worth $15, 000,-
600.
John D. Rockefeller, of New York,
began life as bookkeeper in Cleve-
land, and is reported to be worth $780,
OO0,0 900. His brother, William A. Rock
efeller, is worth $2O,O0O,O00.
Henry A. Flagler, who build the
Ponce de Leon Hotel at st. Augustine,
Fla, said to be the finest hotel in the
world, is worth $15 100000.
John J. Jennings, one Of Chicago's
Oldest residents, has made S., 000,0 900 in
real estate.
The four male members of the Van
derbilt family are rated: Cornelius,
$11O, 100000; William K, $4,000, 900;
Frederick W., $4,000, 900; George W.,
$15,000,0O0.
Jay Gould cannot be worth less than
1915, 100000.
P. T. Barnum began poor, and has
$5,0O0,OOO.
John T. Davis, st. Louis, has made
$4,000, 900, mostly in dry goods.
Charles Mcclure. st. Louis, made
$1,000, 900 in Granite Mountain.
Ex-Gov. English, of Connecticut has
an estate valued at $5,000,000.
Andrew Carnegie, the iron king, is
worth $4O,O00,O0O, and came to this
country from Scotland poor man.
Ten cottagers at Lenox last summer
were rated as follows: d. W. Bishop,
$15, 100000; George W. Westinghouse,
$20,000,000; w. d. Sloane, $18,000,-
600; Charles Lanier, $15, ,0O0;G. G..
Haven, $12,0O0,OOO; w. HI. Bradford,
$1O,OOO,OOO; Arson p. Stokes, 49,
100000; Brayton Ives, $6,000,000;
Col. Auchmutty, $5,000,000.
Charles F. A. Henrichs began as
clerk and now has $5,000,000.
J. W. Mackay, $3O,000,OO0, was
ship-buitder at days wages before he
was gold-hunter.
Senator James G.. Fair kept saloon
for miners, and is worth $2,000,O00.
. Leland Stanford is worth $40, 000, 900.
Charles Pratt, the Brooklyn oil man..
is worth $6,O00,OOO.
Russell Sage is 70 wears old and
worth $40, 000,0 900. = &a
Samuel A Scott, Kansas City, has
$4,000, 900
Mr.. Childs of Philadelphia is worth
not Iaoo than dix 0n0 000