gilded age people

andrew carnegie

1800

While working for the railroad, Carnegie began making investments. He made many wise choices and found that his investments, especially those in oil, brought in

j.p morgan

1837

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. .

john d rockeffeller

1911

e built his first oil refinery near Cleveland and in 1870 incorporated the Standard Oil Company. By 1882 he had a near-monopoly of the oil business in t