|
See also:ARMOUR, See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
PHILIP DANFORTH (1832-1901) , See also:American See also:merchant and philanthropist, was See also:born in See also:Stockbridge, New See also:York, on the 16th of May 1832. He was educated at Cazenovia See also:Academy, Cazenovia, N.Y., worked for several years on his See also:father's See also:farm, and in 1852 with a small party went overland to See also:California, a large See also:part of the See also:journey being made on See also:foot. Here during the next four years he laid the See also:foundations of his See also:fortune. In 1856 he became associated with his friend, See also:Frederick S. See also:Miles, in a wholesale grocery and See also:commission business at See also:Milwaukee, In 1863 he became the See also:head of the See also:firm of Armour, Plankington & Co., pork packers, whose headquarters were at Milwaukee. He also obtained a large See also:interest in the firm H. O. Armour & Co., which was founded by his See also:brother, Herman See also:Ossian Armour (1837-1901), and which, starting as a See also:grain commission business, in 1868 established also a large pork-packing plant. Of this firm, the name of which was changed to Armour & Co. in 187o, he became the head in 1875, and thereafter the business made such rapid progress that in 1901 as many as 11,000 hands were employed. Besides contributing to many charitable enterprises, Armour founded the Armour See also:Institute of Technology at See also:Chicago in 1892 and the Armour Flats in Chicago, built for the purpose of supplying at a See also:low rental See also:good homes for working men and their families. He also contributed liberally to the Armour See also:Mission in Chicago, which was founded in 1881 by his brother, See also:Joseph
Armour. At the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of his See also:death, on the 6th of See also:January 1901, Philip D. Armour's private fortune was supposed to exceed $50,000,000.
End of Article: ARMOUR, PHILIP DANFORTH (1832-1901)
Additional information and Comments
There are no comments yet for this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.
|
del.icio.us it!