. Financial giants of America . ver-tising schedule of the big boss.* Personally he was a generously built man with a mostremarkable benevolent looking face, kindly eyes, a flowingmustache and side whiskers. He was active in business forover forty years and succumbed to pneumonia in 1919. His philanthropies not only were distributed in this coun-try but in Japan, China, and Korea. This was due to the factthat he visited these lands when he was chairman of a SundaySchool Commission. Henry John Heinz was a financial giant, a powerful forcein the industrial world, — but he was more — he was a gen
. Financial giants of America . ver-tising schedule of the big boss.* Personally he was a generously built man with a mostremarkable benevolent looking face, kindly eyes, a flowingmustache and side whiskers. He was active in business forover forty years and succumbed to pneumonia in 1919. His philanthropies not only were distributed in this coun-try but in Japan, China, and Korea. This was due to the factthat he visited these lands when he was chairman of a SundaySchool Commission. Henry John Heinz was a financial giant, a powerful forcein the industrial world, — but he was more — he was a gen-tleman in the truest most literal sense of the word. He wasa type that is scarce in our money-mad country. He has givento the world the largest pickling industry ever established [294] HENRY J. HEINZ and his produce is famous throughout the globe. The varietyof his interests did not stop at the famous 5 7. He mademoney; he made pickles; but most important of all he madehappiness for those with whom he was associated. |29S]. CYRUS H. McCORMICK Cyrus Hall McCormick left a benefit to man-wind in his harvestinp machine—which he not onlyperfected hut manufactured and placed on the mar-ket. His father was likewise an inventor hut nevermet with such marked success as did his justlyfamous son. McCormick was liheral with the fortune hemade, distrihuting it ividely among church andother heneficent institutions. Yet he was never pop-idar for he was amhitious to the extent that he in-sisted upon absolute domination. He was a hardman and fought hard to retain his domination. CYRUS H. McCORMICK CYRUS HALL McCORMICK, of whom it has been said:He will live in grateful recollection of mankind as longas the reaping machine is employed gathering the har-vest, was born on February 15, 1809, on the paternal farmin Rockbridge county, Virginia, in the Blue Ridge mountains,in a period of hard times and during the Indian and otherwars. He was born on a farm at Walnut Grove, in a sectionwhich is n
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