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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...
...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...
...these Armours lived three or four more years, President Roosevelt would have flayed them personally. As it was he pilloried their company as one of the vicious "trusts." It was that, for Philip D. Armour I, privately honest and eleemosynary, was in commerce ruthless. Like John D. Rockefeller Sr. in oil, he forced railroads to rebate him part of his payments for meat and grain transportation. Competitors suffered. Also like the elder Mr. Rockefeller, he made legitimate money by avoiding wastes and making savings in his business. Philip D. Armour I invented the scheme of utilizing every part...