Word: armours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Milwaukee this Armour went to Chicago where his younger brother, Herman Ossian, was in the grain commission business. Philip D. became head of Armour & Co., which they formed. (Both brothers died...
Dissolution actually began last week by the sale of MaplFlakes Mills, Inc., important Armour Grain subsidiary at Chicago to Ralston-Purina Co. of St. Louis. Further liquidation will come, for the Armors are sick of grain...
Philip Danforth Armour I (1832-1901) established the business. His father was a farmer at Cazenovia, N. Y. His mother had been a schoolteacher. She taught him stern honesty; the father taught him industry. Shrewdness was inherent...
...Philip D. Armour I learned that men were finding raw gold in California. He went there, walking a considerable part of the way, riding a mule the balance. Exertion did him no harm, for the Armours have always been brawny, after their first U. S, progenitor, James Armour, Scotch-Irishman. James Armour came to the American colonies in the 18th Century, used to boast: "I was born on a Sunday morning, and baptized before eight o'clock, and the devil a bit of any disease could ever light upon me." He had eight children; his son John, nine; John...
...California young Philip D. Armour I made money ditching water to placer mines. In a rough-&-tumble life, he was rougher than most and tumbled with the sturdiest. After four years he went home to Cazenovia, rich and restless; then to Milwaukee, where? he went into pork packing with John Plankington, after whom the Plankington Hotel there was named, It's bartenders used to be adept at mixed drinks; its present chef prepares a capon just a little less appetizingly than does the chef of the Winthrop Hotel at Tacoma, Wash...