Herman Ossian Armour
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Herman Ossian Armour | |
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| Born | March 7, 1837 Stockbridge, New York, U.S. |
| Died | September 8, 1901 (aged 64) New York City, U.S. |
| Spouses | Mary Jacks (m. 1862–1870)Jane Livingston
(m. 1887–1901) |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Philip Danforth Armour (brother) J. Ogden Armour (nephew) Alice de Janzé (great niece) |
Herman Ossian Armour (March 7, 1837 – September 8, 1901) was an American businessman and philanthropist who with his brother,
Armour & Company, which would exist as the nation's largest such company for much of the twentieth century.[1]
Born the seventh of eight children in
Woodlawn Cemetery.[5]
Armour was a delegate to the 1892 Republican National Convention[6] and a presidential elector in the 1896 presidential election.[7]
See also
References
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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Hall, Henry (1895). America's successful men of affairs: An encyclopedia of contemporaneous biography. New York, United States: New York Tribune. pp. 27.
- ^ Hammond, Charles (1893). The history of Union, Conn. New Haven, CT, United States: Press of Price, Lee & Adkins. pp. 200, 201.
- ^ Marquis, Albert Nelson (1912). Who's Who in America. New York: Marquis Who's Who Inc. p. 54.
- ^ Keister, Douglas (2011). Stories in Stone New York: A Field Guide to New York City Cemeteries. Layton: Gibbs Smith. pp. 51–52.
- ^ Rose, Theodore C.; Burke, James F. (1892). Proceedings of the Tenth Republican National Convention Held in the City of Minneapolis, Minn., June 7, 8, 9, and 10, 1892. Minneapolis, Minn.: Harrison & Smith. p. 104.
- hdl:2027/nnc1.cu54374480.)
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