Gilded age people

  • Cornelius Vanderbilt

    Cornelius Vanderbilt
    An american shipping and railroad magnate who acquired a personal fortune of more than $100 million,
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie
    An industrialist who lead the expansion of the steel industry and became one of the richest Americans in history.
  • J.P. Morgan

    J.P. Morgan
    An american financier and industrial organizer, one of the world’s foremost financial figures during the two pre-World War I decades. He reorganized several major railroads and financed industrial consolidations that formed the US Steel, International Harvester and General Electric corporations.
  • John D. Rockefeller

    John D. Rockefeller
    A business man who was the founder of a standard oil company. He became one of the world's wealthiest man and was a major philanthropist.