Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-04-11
MEN WITH MILLIONS.
SOME OF THE BIG MoNEY-BAGs
OF AMERICA.
Principal Millionaires of America,
and How They Accumulated Their
Wealth.

$4,000, 900 each and upward is an inter
esting compilation as showing the per
sonal fortunes in the United States. And
il is an interesting fact that outside Of
the Aston and Vanderbilt families nearly
all the Americans who have this much
money made it from the most humble
beginnings. In the subjoined list nc
man is mentioned who is not believed to
be worth S., 900, 900 or over.
An extraordinary roterie of rich men
were those who few days ago acted as
pall-bearers at the funeral of Weston
Dobson, of Bethlehem, Penna., himself
worth $6,000,000. Dobson's pall-bear-
ers were thirteen in number, and the
average wealth each man represented
was nearly $8,000,000. The total
wealth of the thirteen was 800, 900, 900.
They were L. p. Wilbur, President of
the Lehigh Valley Railroad; General
w. L. Doster, Robert Packer Under
man, grandson of the late Asa Packer;
William Chapman, the millionaire slate
manufacturer; Robert H. Sayre, Samuel
B. Price, +. b. Leisenring, Stanley III.
Goodwin, George H. Meyers, Robert
Lockhart, Ex-senator Ecllley b. Coke.
whose fortune is estimated at 10000,
600, John Thomas, and Daniel Bertsh,
the two latter the chief railroad and
coal barons of the Lehigh Valley.
l.. z. Letter, Washington, ID. c.,
began life poor, and is now worth So,
100000, made mostly in dry goods in
Chicago.
Vice President Morton is worth Sl0,
100000, and did not have a large nest
egg to start with.
Caldwell Cole, owner of the yacht
Dauntless, is bachelor, thrty-fiye,
and worth $4,000, 600. Mr.. Cole is one
of the few rich men who have inherited
most of their fortune.
A. NJ. Cannon, Washington Territory,
peddled sewing machines through Ore
gon, and is now rated at $4,000, 900.
Ex-senator Palmer, Michigan, mar
ried fortune, and is worth S6,000,0 600.
A. ]. Drexel, of Philadelphia, is worth
$4,000, 900. He is the sou of Francis
Martin Drexel, who was born in Austrian
Tyrol, 1892, a portrait painter Of note,
who came to this country to avoid one
of Napoleon's couscriptions. He en-
gagged in the banking business and his
sons inherited a considerable fortune.
Clans Spreckles is rated as high as
$4,000, 600.
Philip Armour, Chicago, began life as
butcher boy, and now has S25, 10000
James J. Hill President of the Mani
toba Railroad who many years ago paid
Norman w. Kittson SO, 500, 600 cash for
One-hfth interest in the road, began
earning money by working on the st.
Paul levee for $50 q month He was
afterwards agent at st. Paul for a line of
river steamers. Mr.. Hill is now worth
$l5,000,000.
John l. Blair, B,airstown, n. j., is
worth $40, 100000 and began business
by selling plug tobacco and notions.
Robert Bonner New York, began poor
and has S6,0O0,00O.
James Mcmillan, Detroit, has made
$1,000, 900.
The Astor heirs viii inherit 5000, 000,-
O00-mostly in gilt-edged real estate.
Calls p. Huntington, the railroad
magnatc, was once poor man, and is
worth $40, 900, 900.
Montgomery Sears, Boston, inherited
$4,000 900 from his father, but had to
contest the will to get it, He is believed
to be worth $4,000, 600. His father
began life poor.
George N. Pullman, the palace-car
man, began life in q small furniture
business in Albion, N. Y. He began
with $5e, and now has 5000, 600.
b. Z. Hutchinson, cold Hutch,
started life ut the shoemaker's bench ut
Lynn, Mass He is worth IS, 000, 600
George Ehret, II New York beer king,
is but forty years old and worth IS, 000,-
000. " He was SO poor a 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 So, 000,00 and more.
Senator John p. Jones came to this
country from Wales and went gold hunt |
ing in lS49 He is worth SIS, 000,0 /
Marshall Field, Chicago, began rs
clerk in Potter Palmer's store and las
SIS, 100000.
John ID. Rockefeller, New York, be. !
gan life as booll-keopes in Cleveland /
and is reported to he worth $50, 600, 600. /
He is still a young man, and one Of the
hrainiest and most unassuming of /
America s great franciels.
His brother, William a. Rockefeller, /
is worth $40, 000,000
Henry A. Flagler, who built 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 $1,000, 900 in
real estate.
The four male members of the Van
derbilt family are rated: Cornelius,
SI10, 600, 900; William K, SS5, 600, coo; !
Frederick W., SIG, 900, 900; George W.,
SIS, 0e0, 600.
Jay Gould can not be worth less than
$50, 100000.
2. 7. Barnum began poor, and has
S5,000,0OO.
John 7. Davis, st. Louis. has made /
SIS, 00o, 900, mostly in dry goods.
Charles Mcclure, St. Louis, made
So. 600. 900 in Granite Mountain.
Ex-Governor English, Of Connecticut,
has an estate valued at 5,000,0 600
Andrew Carnegie, the iron king, is