Industrial Revolution Biographies

1. Industrial Revolution Biographies First Period

2. Andrew Carnegie By Matthew Villalobos and Trace Brewer

3. Background • Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunferminland, Fife, Scotland, UK • Died August, 11, 1919 at the age of 83 • Cause of Death was Bronchia Pneumonia

4. INFORMATION • Andrew Carnegie is remembered for two achievements: making enormous amounts of money as one of America's most successful industrialists, and then giving most of that money away. • By 1881, the steel manufacturing plant he had built in Braddock, Pennsylvania, was twice as much as Britain's largest steel company. Steel made him wealthy almost beyond belief. In 1901, he sold what was then the Carnegie Steel Company to J.P. Morgan for $480 million — $10.6 billion in today's dollars.

5. Andrew Carnegie Pictures

6. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902 age 86)

7. Elizabeth was known For… • was an American social activist, abolitionist, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage, New York, movements in the United States. • She was the 8th of 11 kids, was born in Johnstown, New York.

8. Early Life Sorry couldn’t find a young picture of Elizabeth • Five of her siblings died in early childhood. The sixth sibling, her oldest brother Eleazar, died at age 20 just before his graduation from Union College in Schenectady, New York. Only Elizabeth and her four sisters lived into adulthood and old age. Later in her life, Elizabeth named her two daughters after two of her sisters, Margaret and Harriot.

9. Education • She attended Johnstown Academy • She could not graduate there and in stead went to Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York

10. Early Women's Rights Movements • In 1848, Elizabeth Stanton joined Mott, Mott's sister Martha Coffin Wright, and a group of other women in Seneca Falls. Together they put together the first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls on July 19-20. Elizabeth Stanton drafted a Declaration of Sentiments, which she read at the convention, Elizabeth Stanton's declaration proclaimed that men and women are created equal. She proposed, among other things, and then demanding voting rights for women.

11. Timeline of Elizabeth’s life • Nov. 12, 1815: Elizabeth Cady Stanton is born • 1851: Elizabeth Cady Stanton meets Susan B. Anthony • 1866: Elizabeth and Susan help establish American Equal Rights Association, which was to get voting rights for African Americans and women. • 1920: Fourteen years after Susan B. Anthony's death, the 19th amendment allowed women to vote, as of August 26.

12. James B .Weaver By Tori and Ryanna

13. Who? James Baird Weaver Born on June 12th, 1833 in Dayton ,Ohio. His parents were Abram and Susan Weaver. They had 13 children and James was the oldest. Abram was a farmer so they family had to move a lot because of the farming.

14. Known for… He was a populist. In 186 he elected into the United States House of Representatives from Iowa’s 6th district.

15. Presidential Candidacies He ran for president two times. Once in 1880 for the 1880 presidential election. Weaver helped find the Populist Party . In 1892 he was the presidential candidate for the Populist Party. He was unsuccessful for both elections.

16. John D. Rockefeller he was born July 8, 1839 he lived to May 23, 1937 Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy.

17. Rockefeller as an industrial emperor, 1901 cartoon from Puck magazine • John Rockefeller,satirized in a 1901puck cartoon, is enthroned

18. Born/early years • July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937 • Richford newyork usa • Rockefeller was the second of six children born in Richford, New York, to William Avery Rockefeller (November 13, 1810 – May 11, 1906) and Eliza Davison (September 12, 1813 – March 28, 1889).

19. He did/was. . . • an American industrialist • Chairman of Standard Oil Company; investor; philanthropist • Rockefeller formed Standard Oil of Ohio, which rapidly became the most profitable refiner in Ohio.

20. died • May 23, 1937 (aged 97) • Rockefeller spent the last 40 years of his life in retirement

21. Poem about his life I was early taught to work as well as play, My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me everyday.

22. J.P Morgan By: Taylor Burns

23. Who: John Pierpont Morgan

24. Birth and Death • In Rome, Italy at age 75 he died of natural causes in his sleep, on May 31st, 1913. • J.P Morgan was born April 17th 1837. Hartford, Connecticut • To mother: Juliet Pierpont Morgan • To Father: Junius Spencer Morgan

25. Family • Daughters: Lousia Pierpont Morgan • Juliet Morgan • Anne Morgan • Son: John Pierpont Morgan Mother: Juliet Pierpont Morgan Father: Junius Spencer Morgan Wife: Amelia Sturges, who died in 1862. Wife: Frances Lousia Tracy

26. Education Morgan went to Hartford Public School and then went to the Episcopal Academy in Cheshire, Connecticut. He toke and passed a exam to get into English High School of Boston. (A school for young men in mathematics.)

27. Known For? • Being one of he most influential backers in the history. • Made the company J.P Morgan & Company • J.P Morgan brought together Europe and the U.S. He put together those who had money with those who needed money.

28. What happened to his business now? • When he passed away his business and fortune of $80 million was passed down to his son. • His business is strong and good as ever, and is still up and running.

30. WHO!? • Marry Harris Jones, affectionately known as ‘Mother Jones’

31. What!? • Mother Jones started out as a teacher and in her later fifties, decided to be a labor organizer. • She was a radical supporter of mineworkers. She helped them to be recognized of their importance. • She gave support to mineworker’s wives and families while the mineworkers were at work

32. When?!? • From her late fifties to the day she died

33. Why?!? • Mother Jones had a huge interest in labor issues and radical politics.

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35. Samuel Gompers

36. Samuel Gompers born in January, 27, 1850. He founded the American Federation of Labor which worked for better working conditions. He was born in a Jewish family in London England.

37. EARLY LIFE • First he became apprentice as a shoe maker, than as cigar maker until his family immigrated to America, New York. He become part of the cigar-maker national union (his dad was cigar maker to) and soon become president of it. He wanted everyone to become part of it since capitalist keep lowering wages.

38. Most of Samuel Gompers actions were for better wages. Like opposing immigration because it lowered wages, or the annexation Hawaii and Philippines since it can exploit cheap labor.

39. Samuel Gompers was mostly Samuel Gompers was mostly influential character that worked so people would have an “American Quality” of a living. He had the AFL going very well. He died in December 13, 1924.

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41. Jay Gould By: Samantha Sandez

42. Who: Jason Gould ( also known as Jay Gould)

43. What Jay Gould is known as an American financier and a American railroad executive. He owned and controlled the system of New York elevated railways. Jay Gould made a fortune by controlling the price of the stocks . He later became one of the most important businessmen in America. Jay Gould became the 9th richest man in American history.

44. facts on parents and marriage: • Parents: • His parents were: John Burr Gould (1792-1866) and Mary More Gould (1798-1841) • Gould's father was of British colonial ancestry, and his mother of Scottish ancestry. • His father was a farmer and a store keeper. • marriage: • 1863 Marriage to Helen Day Miller (1838-1889) • they had five children, named: George Jay Gould, Edwin Gould, Helen Gould, Anna Gould, and Frank Jay Gould.

45. When: • Birth: May 27th 1836 • Major accomplishments: • In 1856 Published The History of Delaware County, and Border Years of New York. • in 1867 Jay Gould fought for control of the Erie railroad, and won. • 1868 Jay Gould becomes president of Erie railroad. • 1869, Jay Gould begin to purchase gold in order to corner the market • 1872 Jay Gould is forced to resign from the Erie railroad board and is replaced • Death: December 2nd, 1892 Then in 1888 diagnosed with the tuberculosis that would kill him within four years

46. Where? • Jay Gould’s birthplace is in Roxbury, New York • Locations for major accomplishments: • He published the history of Delaware county in New York • He fought for the Erie railroad in New York. • Death location- • Jay Gould died in New York. He was buried in Woodlawn cemetery in Bronx, New York

47. Additional info: • He grew up on a farm • They were a poor family. • He realized at a young age, that farm work was not his favorite. • He received education in a local school. • After leaving school at the age 16 he went to work for his father in the hardware business. • Then at a lumber tanning business in western New York. • He taught his self surveying and mathematics • When Gould was between the ages of 18 and 20 he helped prepare maps of New York’s southern countries • At age 21 Jay Gould invested five thousand dollars • In 1856 he published history of Delaware county, and border wars of New York, he had spend several years writing it. • 1860-Gould moved to New York and became a leather merchant • He later became a stockbroker in wall street. • 1863- got married • Jay Gould becomes president of Erie Railway in 1868

48. The farmhouse built by Jay’s grandfather in 1789. Here Jay Gould was born in 1836. Only the front portion of the home, existed in Jay’s time.

49. Black Friday In August 1869, Jay Gould began to purchase gold in order to corner the market. Gould hoped that by cornering the market on gold, they could drive up the price of gold, that drives up the price of wheat, causing western farmers to increase their bread stuffs to the east, which would travel on the Erie railroad owned by jay Gould. In order to make this happen, jay Gould contacted President Ulysses S. Grant's brother-in-law, Abel Corbin, and to try to influence the president and his Secretary General Horace Porter. Although Gould's plan worked and gave him great profits, he however lost most of it in the lawsuit, and it cost him his reputation.

50. Why Jay Gould was important, because even though he was known as a robber baron, he did build new railway systems, and helped America back then with his deals, and purchases.