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In the 1996 book The Wealthy 100, authors Michael Klepper and Robert Gunther placed John D. Rockefeller atop the list of the richest Americans in history, followed by Cornelius Vanderbilt and John Jacob Astor. [9] Bill Gates was the top living person, coming in fifth.
Drawing of Chaires' Verdura Plantation house, Leon County, Florida. Benjamin Chaires Sr. (1786–1838) was an American planter, land owner, banker and investor in Territorial Florida, and may have been the richest man in Florida in the 1830s. He was involved in the creation of the first railroads in Florida.
Griffin was the richest person in Illinois before following his hedge fund, Citadel, to Miami. Forbes says the graduate school of Arts and Sciences at Harvard will bear his name following a $300 ...
Rank: 3rd. Industry: Technology. Net Worth: $193 billion. More: Jeff Bezos and Billionaire Bunker, Florida: World's richest buys 3rd home in less than a year Julia Koch and Family, Palm Beach ...
William Joseph Curry was born in 1821 on Green Turtle Cay in the Bahamas. He arrived in Key West from the Bahamas in 1837 at age 16. [1] Like many "conchs", he was a poor white Bahamian who immigrated to Key West for economic opportunity.
A little over a century ago, in 1916, legendary robber baron John D. Rockefeller became the world's first billionaire -- probably. Before the age of computerized records and the internet, measuring...
As of June 2021, Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranked him the 103rd-richest person in the world with a net worth of US$18.9 billion. [ 1 ] As per Forbes list of The Richest People In The World, dated 8 MARCH 2024, John Menard, Jr. ranked #79 with a net worth of $25.2 Billion.
Here’s a quick look at the stories of the 10 richest historical Americans who are no longer alive, ranked in reverse order. Note that the “estimated wealth” figures are in today’s dollars ...