The Brunch Table

7/20/2007

NYT All-Time Rich List in a nutshell

Filed under: — Nick @ 11:36 pm

The New York Times put out a list of the 30 all-time richest Americans, with capsule biographies and inflation-adjusted fortune stats. Their cute Flash presentation was giving me a headache, though, so I copied out the info by hand:

  1. John Rockefeller – $192 billion – oil
  2. Cornelius Vanderbilt – $143 billion – steamboats -> railroads
  3. John Astor – $116 billion – fur -> real estate
  4. Stephen Girard – $83 billion – smuggling -> banking
  5. Bill Gates – $82 billion – software
  6. Andrew Carnegie – $74 billion – steel
  7. A. T. Stewart – $70 billion – retail
  8. Frederick Weyerhauser – $68 billion – lumber
  9. Jay Gould – $67 billion – stocks
  10. Stephen van Rensselaer – $64 billion – real estate
  11. Marshall Field – $61 billion – retail -> real estate
  12. Henry Ford – $54 billion – cars
  13. Sam Walton – $53 billion – retail -> outsourcing
  14. Andrew Mellon – $48 billion – banking -> aluminum, oil
  15. Richard Mellon – $48 billion – banking -> aluminum, oil
  16. Warren Buffett – $46 billion – stocks
  17. James Fair – $45 billion – mining -> real estate
  18. William Weightman – $44 billion – pharmaceuticals
  19. Moses Taylor – $44 billion – banking
  20. Russell Sage – $43 billion – organized crime -> stocks
  21. John Blair – $43 billion – mining -> railroads
  22. Edward Harriman – $39 billion – stocks -> railroads
  23. Henry Rogers – $39 billion – oil
  24. J. P. Morgan – $38 billion – banking -> politics
  25. Oliver Payne – $37 billion – oil
  26. Henry Frick – $36 billion – steel
  27. George Pullman – $34 billion – traincars
  28. Collis Huntington – $33 billion – retail -> railroads
  29. Peter Widener – $32 billion – railroads
  30. James Flood – $31 billion – mining

By the way, Huntington, WV is named for Collis Huntington. And Oliver Hazard Payne easily takes the prize for best name.

One Response to “NYT All-Time Rich List in a nutshell”

  1. cola says:

    I dunno, Cornelius is a pretty awesome name as well. Although “Hazard Payne” could be some sort of super villian, which is just awesome.

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