Guggenheim, Simon (30 December 1867–02 November 1941), business executive and philanthropist, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Meyer Guggenheim, an immigrant who founded one of the country’s great fortunes by developing western mineral holdings, and Barbara Meyer. He was educated in Philadelphia public schools and at the Pierce School of Business....
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Guggenheim, Simon (1867-1941), business executive and philanthropist
Joel Conarroe
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Mather, Samuel (1851-1931), industrialist and philanthropist
Christopher D. Felker
Mather, Samuel (07 July 1851–19 October 1931), industrialist and philanthropist, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Georgiana Pomeroy Woolson and Samuel Livingston Mather, a financier and founder of mining companies. Mather attended public schools in Cleveland and took college-preparatory classes at St. Mark’s School in Southboro, Massachusetts. He had planned to enter Harvard University in the fall of 1869 but was badly injured in an explosion that occurred on 14 July 1869 at the Cleveland Iron and Mining Company in Ishpeming, Michigan, which his father owned and where he was working for the summer. Mather convalesced for two years—much of that time as an invalid—and then embarked on a lengthy trip through Europe. In the fall of 1873 he returned to Cleveland Iron and Mining, where over the following eight years he learned the iron-mining business. In 1881 he married Flora Amelia Stone, with whom he would have four children....
