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The Declaration of Independence - A Brief History
By: Stanley L. Klos

Business Founders

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Alva Edison

Thomas Edison

Joe Albertson

Paul Allen

Stanton Avery

A.D. Anderson

Thomas Armstrong

Warren Avis

Philip Armour

George Archer

Jeffrey Brotman

Arthur Anderson

Leonard Skaggs

Wallace Abbott

Currier Holman

William Wrigley

John Jacob Astor

William Waldorf Astor - 1st Viscount

William Backhouse Astor

Samuel Baker

Steven Ballmer

George Barker

Charels Barnes

Phineas Taylor Barnum

James Batterson

John Baugh

Jacob Bausch

Joseph Bear

Edward Beauvais

Warren Bechtel

Andreas Bechtolsheim

Olive Ann Beech

Walter Beech

Sosthenes Behn

Alexander Graham Bell

Henry Bergh

Charles Bergstresser

Clarence Birdseye

Masaru Ibuka

Akio Morita

Arthur Blank

Henry Bloch

Richard Bloch

Alfred Samuel Bloomingdale

William (Bill) Boeing

William Booth

Henry Bowen

Caleb Bradham

Diamond Jim Brady

Richard Breed

William Bristol

Louis Brittin

Cleyson Brown

Jacob Brown

Lucien Brunswig

Warren Buffett

Adolphus Busch

August Busch

Asa Candler

Joseph Rod Canion

William Cargill

Chester Carlson

Andrew Carnegie

Stephen Case

Jim Casey

Clyde Cessna

Otis Chandler

Owen Cheatham

James Christie

Charles Clark

Edward Clark

Charles Coffin

Harry Cohn

Jack Cohn

Colbert Coldwell

William Colgate

Samuel Colt

Adolph Coors

Charles Crocker

Edward Crutchfield

Joe Cullinan

Nathan Cummings

Cyrus Curtis

John Daniels

Henry Davison

Charles Deere

John Deere

Michael Dell

Dupont Denemours

Elias Hasket Derby

Roy Disney

Walt Disney

Ray Dolby

Peter Donahue

Donald Douglas

Charles H. Dow

Herbert Dow

James Duke (Buchanan)

E. I. (Eleuthère Irénée) du Pont

Pierre S. (Samuel) du Pont

Richard du Pont

Thomas Durant

Richard Eamer

George Eastman

Lawrence Ellison

Paul Ellwood

John Emerson

Charles Erhart

Theodore Ernst

James Graham Fair

Sherman Fairchild

James C. Fargo

William George Fargo

Daniel Farnsworth

Marshall Field

William Fishman

O. A. Fleming

Rudolph Fluor

Charles Bertie Forbes

Malcolm S. Forbes

HENRY FORD

Felix Frankfurter

Simon Fribourg

Henry Clay Frick

Gary Friedman

Alfred C. Fuller

Paul Galvin

James Gamble

Elbert Gary

Bill Gates

George Gilman

J. Paul Getty

Amadeo P. Giannini

Barry Gibbons

King Gillette

Elli Gimbel

Stephen Girard

Marcus Goldman

Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Gompers

Charles Goodyear

Alex Grass

Earl G. Graves

Elisha Gray

Adolphus Green

Lemuel Green Mead

Frank Grimes

Leroy Grumman

Meyer Guggenheim

Briton Hadden

Charles Hall

Erle Halliburton

Ruth Handler

Edward Henry Harriman

John Harris

Hugh Harrison

George Hartford

Henry John Heinz

Harry Helmsley

Leona Helmsley

Milton Hershey

William Hewlett

Henry Hillman

Conrad Hilton

Benjamin Holt

George Albert Hormel

Joseph Hudson

Howard Robard Hughes

Alfred Hunt

Collis Huntington

Joseph Hyde

Carl Icahn

Orrin Ingram

George Jenkins

Steven Paul Jobs

Edward Crosley Johnson

Hiram W. (Warren) Johnson

Edward Davis Jones

William Joy

Henry Kaiser

Fred Keeler

W. K. (Willie Keith) Kellogg

Joseph Patrick Kennedy

Joseph P. Keppler

Charles Franklin Kettering

Vinod Khosla

Justin Kimball

John Kimberly

Jim Kimsey

Thomas Kingsford

Alva Kinney

Louis Kirstein

Phil Knight

Walter Knott

Fred Koch

Robert Koch

Walter Kohler

James Kraft

Sebastian Kresge

Joan Kroc

Ray Kroc

Bernard Kroger

Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger

Samuel Langley

Charles Lazarus

Fred Lazarus

William Lear

Henri Lehman

Eli Lilly

Carl Lindner

Franklin Mars

Charles Lockhart

Allan Lockheed

Malcolm Lockheed

Spencer Love

Henry Luce

Sam Lux

Edmund Lynch

Rowland Macy

Alice Marriott

Hugo Mann

Bernard Marcus

J. (John) Willard Marriott

Laurence Marshall

James Marwick

Peat Marwick

Hiram Maxim

Hudson Maxim

David May

Louis Burt Mayer

Charles Mayo

William Mayo

David McConnell

Eugene McDermott

Dick McDonald

Mac McDonald

Richard J. McDonald

James McDonnell

Frank J. Mcelwain

John McKesson

Scott McNealy

George Herbert Mead

George Mecherle

Joseph Medill

Andrew Mellon

Richard Mellon

Frank Melville

George Merck

Charles Merrill

Alexander Meston

Charles Meston

Eugene Meyer

Fred Miles

Tom Monaghan

Gordon E. Moore

Henry Lewis Morgan

John Pierpont Morgan

E.M. Morris

John Myers

George Newell

William Nichols

Robert Noyce

John O'Connell

Sigurd Odegard

Fred Pabst

David Packard

Oliver Hazard Payne

William Peat

Elmer Peck

John Pemberton

James Cash Penny

Ross Perot

Joseph Newton Pew

Charles Pfizer

Frank Phillips

Boone Pickens

John S. Pillsbury

Allan Pinkerton

Sol Price

William Procter

Frederick Rentschler

Cecil John Rhodes

John Ringling

Daniel Robbins

John D. Rockefeller

William Rockefeller

George Roe

Alvah Roebuck

Francis Rogallo

Henry Huddleston Rogers

Edmund De Rothschild

Meyer Amschel Rothschild

Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild

Walter Rothschild

Jacob Ruppert

Claude Ryan

Samuel Sachs

Israel Sack

Russell Sage

Jacob Sapirstein

Adolphe Sax

Richard Sears

F.C. Session

John Shillito

JR Simplot

Marion Skaggs

Francis Marion Smith

Fred Smith

Wilson Smith

John Sotheby

Albert Goodwill Spalding

John Speke

Steven Spielberg

Edward Squibb

William Staats

Leland Stanford

Harold Stanley

Robert Stearns

George Steinbrenner

Charles M. Swab

Henrietta Szold

Frederick Taylor

Edward Temple

Dave Thomas

Charles Thompson

John Thompson

William Thompson

Charles Tiffany

William Timken

Donald John Trump

Ivana Trump

Emory Upton

Lou Upton

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Matthew Vassar

Theodore Waitt

Charles Walgreen

Robert Walter

Sam Walton

Harry Morris Warner

Jack Warner

Thomas Watson

Steve Wazniak

Theodore Weicker

Henry Wells

George Westinghouse

Leslie Wexner

Frederick Weyerhaeuser

Frederick Whinney

U.A. Whitaker

Eli Whitney

Alwin Ernst

Word Wood

Oscar Wyatt

Gill Wylie

Steve Wynn

Darryl Zanuck

Ferdinand Zeppelin

Adolph Zukor

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