George Mortimer Pullman was born in Brockton, New York in 1831.

He was originally trained as a cabinet maker but is famous for inventing the Pullman Railway car. This was used to transport Lincoln’s body across the country.

He owned…

John D. Rockefeller was born in 1837 at his parents farm near Richford, New York.

In addition to farming, his father also pursued a somewhat mysterious career as a seller of elixers and patent medicines. His mother was from a…

Henry Clay Frick was born in 1849 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

He was born poor and in ill health but had a drive to succeed. In the industrial era in Appalachia, he seized his chance. He organized a company that…