-
Cornelious Vanderblit
Cornelius Vanderbilt I, also known as El Comodoro or Comodoro Vanderbilt, was an American businessman who amassed his fortune thanks to transportation by ships and railways. He was the patriarch of the Vanderbilt family. -
J.P Morgan
During the Gilded Age, J.P. Morgan stood astride the nation's financial world like a colossus. His banking house erected the structure of the most prominent American industries in the Gilded Age beginning with the railroad. ... After the Panic of 1893, he reorganized many bankrupt railroads and industrial companies -
Andrew Carnagie
Andrew Carnegie was an American industrialist, businessman and philanthropist from Scotland. As a child, he emigrated from Scotland along with his parents. He worked from an early age in the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. At age 20 he became a manager of the same railway company and the apprentice of Thomas A. -
Jonh D. Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller ( Richford , 8 of July of 1839 - New York , 23 of maypole of 1937) was a businessman and investor , industrialist , who worked in the world of industrial oil , to the point of monopolizing . He was the founder and president of Standard Oil , a giant company that managed to control the extraction , refinement , transportation and distribution of more than 90% of oil of the United States and held entire monopolies (in the form of investments) in multiple foreign countries
