Person:James Stillman (1)

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James Stillman
b.9 Jun 1850
d.15 Mar 1918
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m. 17 Aug 1849
  1. James Stillman1850 - 1918
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  • H.  James Stillman1850 - 1918
  • W.  Sarah Rumrill (add)
  1. Sarah Elizabeth Stillman1872 - 1935
  2. Isabel Goodrich Stillman
  3. James Alexander Stillman1873 - 1944
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Name James Stillman
Gender Male
Birth[1] 9 Jun 1850
Marriage to Sarah Rumrill (add)
Death[1] 15 Mar 1918
Reference Number? Q3161428?


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James Jewett Stillman (June 9, 1850 – March 15, 1918) was an American businessman who invested in land, banking, and railroads in New York, Texas, and Mexico. He was chairman of the board of directors of the National City Bank.[1] He forged alliances with the Rockefeller family, Standard Oil and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. to lay a foundation that made it, arguably, "the greatest bank in the Western Hemisphere." He engaged in an expansion policy that made National City the largest bank in the United States by 1894, the first to open foreign branches, and a leader in foreign exchange. By 1902, the bank was able to pay any sum of money to any city in the world within 24 hours. He was worth approximately $77 million at the time of his death, making him one of the wealthiest people in the country at the time.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 James Stillman, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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