Morton, Joy (27 September 1855–10 May 1934), salt manufacturer and business executive, was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Julius Sterling Morton, editor of the weekly Nebraska City Press and Democratic Party leader who was appointed secretary of the Nebraska Territory by President ...
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Morton, Joy (1855-1934), salt manufacturer and business executive
Dennis Wepman
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O’Hara, James (?1752–16 December 1819), revolutionary war officer, businessman, and manufacturer
William Weisberger
O’Hara, James (?1752–16 December 1819), revolutionary war officer, businessman, and manufacturer, was born in County Mayo, Ireland, the son of Major John O’Hara. (His mother’s name is not known.) The young O’Hara left Ireland in 1765 to attend the Jesuit College of St. Sulpice in Paris. In 1770 he briefly served in the Regiment of the British Coldstream Guards. The next year he resigned the ensign’s commission granted to him by his relative, Lord Tyrawley, and briefly worked in a ship broker’s office in Liverpool, acquiring business skills....
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Richmond, Dean (1804-1866), businessman and politician
Michael Vorenberg
Richmond, Dean (31 March 1804–27 August 1866), businessman and politician, was born Elkanah Dean Richmond in Barnard, Vermont, the son of Hathaway Richmond, a manufacturer, and Rachel Dean. He never used his first name. He received only a few years of formal education during childhood, and after 1816, when the family moved to Salina (now Syracuse), New York, he learned the skills of salt production from his father and three uncles, who together operated a salt manufacturing concern. In 1821 Richmond’s father died, and Richmond took his father’s place in the salt business. Richmond married Mary Elizabeth Mead in 1833, and the couple had eight children. In 1842, after twenty-two years as a moderately successful businessman in Syracuse, Richmond moved to Buffalo, New York, and opened a new concern as a grain transporter. He also cofounded and directed the Buffalo & Rochester Railroad....
