Word: patten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Collins, will consist of the following men: J. W. de Milhau '32, sub-chairman, J. S. Ames, Jr. '32, A. D. Bell '32, W. G. Coogan '32, C. D. Draper '32, A. M. Faxon '32, J. W. Fobes '32, G. W. Lewis '32, Edward Orlandini '32, W. S. Patten '32, Beekman Pool '32, R. P. Post '32, D. W. Rainbolt '32, W. L. Thompson Jr. '32, and W. S. Warner...
...Patten Will. Many a fable has been told of James Patten, onetime grain operator, who died in Evanston, Ill., last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 17), but no fabulous fortune did his will reveal. His estate was valued at $20,000,000; his investments, sound, shrewd, included stocks in Chicago Daily News; Chicago Rapid Transit; Commonwealth Edison; First National Bank, Chicago; Pullman, Inc.; Swift & Co.; 20 Wacker Drive Building Corp. Estate income goes mainly to Widow Amanda Louise Patten. Upon her death, estate will be divided, one half to charity, one half between Son John L. Patten, Daughter (Mrs.) Agnes Patten Wilder...
Died. James A. Patten, 76, wheat king; of pneumonia; in Evanston...
...replaced by a $20,000,000 building on the same site. Centre of grain trading for 44 years, the old building has seen trading in eleven billion bushels of "cash" grain, amounting to 6,000,000 full freight cars. Here P. D. Armour, Joseph Leiter, James A. Patten and many another operator became famous. Here Arthur Cutten, prominent in Wall Street's late bull market, took the title of Corn King from J. Ogden Armour. Here "Old Hutch"-P. B. Hutchinson-ran the price of wheat from 89¾? a bushel to $2.00, then watched the market collapse...
...Patten: Board of Trade. Chicago grain traders last week mourned the passing of the old Board of Trade building at Jackson Boulevard and LaSalle Street and the death of James A. Patten, one of the men who did most to make that building famed. Operating on a large scale from 1890 to his retirement in 1910, Mr. Patten is credited with being the only man who ever established corners in all four of the major markets-wheat, corn, oats and cotton. Though prosecuted under the Sherman Law for acting "in restraint of trade" Mr. Patten always denied that...