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

life1795-1869 (74)
spouse(s)Elisha Riggs
regionuk-london

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)

David Thompson

fur trader, surveyor, cartographer, explorer, traveler

Facundo Bacardí

Wine merchant, founder of Bacardi rum distillery in 1862
1814-1886 (72)
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Hans Conrad Schulthess

Silk merchant trader
1714-1791 (77)

James Cochran

Wealthy textiles manufacturer and clothing merchant trader

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)

Phillip Templeman

Bonavista merchant, lived in the Devon House

Sarah Todd Astor

Fur trader, wife of John Jabob Astor
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Simon Fraser

Explorer, fur trader
1776-1862 (86)

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