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  2. The Land Report - Wikipedia

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    The 2021 Land Report 100 featured an in-depth interview with Red Emmerson, the founder and chairman emeritus of Sierra Pacific Industries. Thanks to his family's 2.33 million acres of timberland holdings in California, Oregon, and Washington, the Emmersons rank as America's leading private landowners ahead of John Malone's 2.2 million acres ...

  3. American gentry - Wikipedia

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    Lee's family of Stratford Hall was among the oldest of the Virginia gentry class. Lee's family is one of Virginia's first families, originally arriving in the Colony of Virginia from the Kingdom of England in the early 17th century. The family's founder was Richard Lee I, Esquire, "the Immigrant" (1618–1664), from the county of Shropshire.

  4. Landed gentry - Wikipedia

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    The landed gentry, or the gentry (sometimes collectively known as the squirearchy), is a largely historical Irish and British social class of landowners who could live entirely from rental income, or at least had a country estate.

  5. Red Emmerson - Wikipedia

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    Archie Aldis "Red" Emmerson (born 1929) is the founder of Sierra Pacific Industries, a lumber products company that operates in California, Oregon and Washington.With 2.33 million acres, Emmerson and his family rank as America's largest private landowners, according to a profile [1] by Eric O’Keefe in the 2021 Land Report 100.

  6. List of wealthiest families - Wikipedia

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    The Fugger family of mercantile bankers and venture capitalists, the richest family in the 16th century. [63] The Welser family, alongside the Fugger one of the most important families of merchant bankers in 16th-century Europe. The Baring family, owners of an important merchant bank in London in the 18th to 19th centuries.

  7. List of largest houses in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the 100+ largest extant and historic houses in the United States, ordered by area of the main house. The list includes houses that have been demolished, houses that are currently under construction, and buildings that are not currently, but were previously used as private homes. [1]

  8. Junker (Prussia) - Wikipedia

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    These families were mostly part of the German medieval Uradel and had carried on the colonisation and Christianisation of the northeastern European territories during the Ostsiedlung. Over the centuries, they had become influential commanders and landowners, especially in the lands east of the Elbe River in the Kingdom of Prussia.

  9. Zamindars of Bengal - Wikipedia

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    The Dhaka Nawab Family also owned a major diamond which is now preserved in a vault of Sonali Bank. [14] The largest 100 estates out of 1200 tier 1 estate covered 75% of land in Bengal and the remaining 25% was divide between the remainder i.e. approximately 1100 estates.