. A Biographical history of Nodaway and Atchison counties, Missouri : compendium of national biography. d his business by add-ing to it the shipment of dressed beef tothe European markets, and manjother linesof trade and manufacturing, and it rapidlyassumed vast proportions, employing anarmy of men in different lines of the busi-ness. Mr. Armour successfully conducted agreat many speculative deals in pork andgrain of immense proportions and also erectedmany large warehouses for the storage ofgrain. He became one of the representativebusiness men of Chicago, where he becameclosely identified wi
. A Biographical history of Nodaway and Atchison counties, Missouri : compendium of national biography. d his business by add-ing to it the shipment of dressed beef tothe European markets, and manjother linesof trade and manufacturing, and it rapidlyassumed vast proportions, employing anarmy of men in different lines of the busi-ness. Mr. Armour successfully conducted agreat many speculative deals in pork andgrain of immense proportions and also erectedmany large warehouses for the storage ofgrain. He became one of the representativebusiness men of Chicago, where he becameclosely identified with all enterprises of apublic nature, but his fame as a great busi-ness man extended to all parts of the founded the Armour Institute at Chi-cago and also contributed largelj to benevo-lent and charitable institutions. ROBERT FULTON.—Although Fultonis best known as the inventor of thefirst successful steamboat, yet his claims todistinction do not rest alone upon that, forhe was an inventor along other lines, apainter and an author. He was born atLittle Britain, Lancaster county, Pennsyl-.
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