David Thompson
fur trader, surveyor, cartographer, explorer, traveler
Anton Fugger
Merchant aka Fugger the Rich, businessman, nephew of Jakob Fugger
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Arthur Wirtz
Liquor merchant, founder of Wirtz Beverage Group that is now Wirtz Corporation
1901-1983 (82)
Facundo Bacardí
Wine merchant, founder of Bacardi rum distillery in 1862
1814-1886 (72)
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George Peabody
Financier, founder of George Peabody & Co., dry goods merchant, industrialist, philanthropist, father of modern philanthropy, military veteran, volunteer in the War of 1812
1795-1869 (74)
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J.J. Astor
Fur trader, fur pelts, fur pelt trader in New York, richest person in America during the War of 1812
Joseph Jacquard
Weaver, textiles merchant, computer punch cards for the earliest programmable looms
1752-1834 (82)
Leo Sulzberger
Merchant, philanthropist, President of the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society
Paul Tulane
merchant, retailer of dry goods, philanthropist, founder of the Paul Tulane Society which led to the namesake Tulane University
1801-1887 (86)
Sarah Todd Astor
Fur trader, wife of John Jabob Astor
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