NYT All-Time Rich List in a nutshell
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:
- John Rockefeller - $192 billion - oil
- Cornelius Vanderbilt - $143 billion - steamboats -> railroads
- John Astor - $116 billion - fur -> real estate
- Stephen Girard - $83 billion - smuggling -> banking
- Bill Gates - $82 billion - software
- Andrew Carnegie - $74 billion - steel
- A. T. Stewart - $70 billion - retail
- Frederick Weyerhauser - $68 billion - lumber
- Jay Gould - $67 billion - stocks
- Stephen van Rensselaer - $64 billion - real estate
- Marshall Field - $61 billion - retail -> real estate
- Henry Ford - $54 billion - cars
- Sam Walton - $53 billion - retail -> outsourcing
- Andrew Mellon - $48 billion - banking -> aluminum, oil
- Richard Mellon - $48 billion - banking -> aluminum, oil
- Warren Buffett - $46 billion - stocks
- James Fair - $45 billion - mining -> real estate
- William Weightman - $44 billion - pharmaceuticals
- Moses Taylor - $44 billion - banking
- Russell Sage - $43 billion - organized crime -> stocks
- John Blair - $43 billion - mining -> railroads
- Edward Harriman - $39 billion - stocks -> railroads
- Henry Rogers - $39 billion - oil
- J. P. Morgan - $38 billion - banking -> politics
- Oliver Payne - $37 billion - oil
- Henry Frick - $36 billion - steel
- George Pullman - $34 billion - traincars
- Collis Huntington - $33 billion - retail -> railroads
- Peter Widener - $32 billion - railroads
- 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.
July 21st, 2007 at 2:25 am
I dunno, Cornelius is a pretty awesome name as well. Although “Hazard Payne” could be some sort of super villian, which is just awesome.