Who died in 1956 and was a founder of the Netherland-America Foundation?
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Netherland-America Foundation The Netherland-America Foundation supports bilateral exchange between the United States of America and the Netherlands. It was founded in 1921. Two of the founders were Franklin D. Roosevelt, later the U.S. president, and Thomas Watson, founder of IBM.
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Thomas J. Watson Thomas John Watson Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was an American businessman. He served as the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM) He oversaw the company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson developed IBM's management style and corporate culture from John Henry Patterson's training at NCR. He turned the company into a highly-effective selling organization, based largely on punched card tabulating machines. A leading self-made industrialist, he was one of the richest men of his time and was called the world's greatest salesman when he died in 1956.
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Jacob Albright Jacob Albright (Jakob Albrecht) (May 1, 1759 – May 17, 1808) was an American Christian leader, founder of Albright's People (Die Albrechtsleute) which was officially named the Evangelical Association (Evangelische Gemeinschaft) in 1816. This church underwent various mergers and schisms and today is a part of the United Methodist Church.
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Ascher Silberstein Ascher Silberstein (18 September 1852 – 17 December 1909) was born in Austria on September 18, 1852. He came to the United States at the age of 15 and settled in Jefferson, Texas, later moving to Dallas and was engaged in the cattle business. He was associated, at different times, with Ellis Cockrell and J.B. Wilson. Early in 1909, he was one of the organizers of the Trinity National Bank, which merged with the City National Bank at the time of Silberstein's death. He built and was, for a number of years, president of the Dallas Oil and Refining Company. Silberstein was a quiet and unassuming man and a liberal contributor toward any worthy cause that was brought to his notice. When a meeting was held to raise funds for the flood sufferers in May 1907, he was one of the first to rise and say, "I will give a thousand dollars." Silberstein died suddenly on December 17, 1909. In his will, he bequeathed a very large amount of his estate to various charitable and educational institutions, including the Buckner Orphans Home, the Dallas City Hospital, and the Dallas Public Schools.
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Franklin W. Olin Franklin Walter Olin (January 9, 1860 – May 21, 1951) was the founder of the Olin Corporation.
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Anne Hearst Anne Randolph Hearst (born 1956) is an American socialite, philanthropist, and publishing heiress.
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Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild (German: "Ludwig Nathaniel Freiherr von Rothschild" ) was an Austrian baron from the famous Rothschild family. He was born in Vienna on 5 March 1882 and died of heart failure while swimming in Montego Bay, Jamaica on 15 January 1955.
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Jerry Zucker (businessman) Jerry Zucker (August 24, 1949 – April 12, 2008) was an Israeli-born American businessman and philanthropist.
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Peter Van Herrewege Peter Alexander Van Herrewege, (born December 1953) is a businessman.
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William Hornaday William H. D. Hornaday (died 17 March 1992, aged 81), affectionately known as "Dr. Bill" to his congregation of over 7,000, was the leading minister at Founder's Church of Religious Science in Los Angeles, California. A former business executive, Hornaday earned his Doctor of Divinity in 1952 and studied under such prominent people as Carl Jung, Albert Schweitzer, Karl Barth, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Ernest Holmes.
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Thomas Maurice Mulry Thomas Maurice Mulry (13 February 1855 – 10 March 1916) was an American businessman and philanthropist.
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Margaret Anne Cargill Margaret Anne Cargill (September 24, 1920 – August 1, 2006) was an American philanthropist and heiress to part of the Cargill fortune.
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Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation The Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation was created in 2006 upon the death of Joan C. Edwards, a well-known West Virginia-based philanthropist.
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Hendrick Christiaensen Hendrick Christiaensen (died 1616) was a Dutch explorer who was involved in the earlier exploration of what became the colony of New Netherland.
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Jan Frans Vonck Johannes Franciscus Vonck, also known by the Francization Jean-François Vonck or the Netherlandization Jan-Frans Vonck, (29 November 1743 – 1 December 1792) was a lawyer and one of the leaders of the Brabant Revolution from 1789-1790. This Revolution led to the founding of the United States of Belgium in January 1790. Vonck was the leader of the radical Vonckists faction of revolutionaries which were named after him. They were inspired by the French Revolution, pleaded for the abolition of the feudal government of the state based on privileges and were in favour of a more centralised government.
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James Anthony Walsh James Anthony Walsh (February 24, 1867 – April 14, 1936) was the co-founder of Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers.
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William L. McKnight William L. McKnight (November 11, 1887 – March 4, 1978) was an American businessman and philanthropist who served his entire career in the 3M corporation, rising to chairman of the board from 1949 to 1966. He founded the McKnight Foundation in 1953.
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Martin J. Kennedy Martin John Kennedy (August 29, 1892 – October 27, 1955) was an American politician from New York.
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Eleanor Fitchen Eleanor Beach Fitchen (October 9, 1912 in Manhattan – April 20, 2009) was an American conservationist, preservationist and philanthropist. From her earliest years until her death in April 2009, Eleanor led a rewarding and memorable life and left a legacy that included the founding of several not-for-profit organizations, the conservation of hundreds of acres of open space, the creation of two historic districts, the restoration and preservation of half-dozen century old structures and the respect and admiration of hundreds of individuals.
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J. Paul Getty Jean Paul Getty (December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976) was an American industrialist. He founded the Getty Oil Company, and in 1957 "Fortune" magazine named him the richest living American, while the 1966 Guinness Book of Records named him as the world's richest private citizen, worth an estimated $1.2 billion (approximately $ billion in 2016). At his death, he was worth more than $2 billion (approximately $ billion in 2016). A book published in 1996 ranked him as the 67th richest American who ever lived, based on his wealth as a percentage of the gross national product.
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William Edenborn William Edenborn (March 20, 1848 – May 13, 1926) was a businessman, inventor and philanthropist, born in Plettenberg in the Westphalia region of the Ruhr River Valley of the former Prussia, since Germany. He immigrated to the United States in 1866 as a "financially poor youth yet rich in vision and courage" and eventually became a citizen.
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Fernance B. Perry Fernance Bento Perry, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (November 25, 1922 – November 27, 2014), was a Portuguese-Bermudian entrepreneur and business leader, who had a prominent role in the economy of Bermuda from the mid-20th century to the time of his death in 2014. Originally from the Azores, his professional career spanned such diverse fields as retail supermarkets, television and radio broadcasting, real estate management and maritime shipping. His philanthropic works contributed to healthcare improvements and programmes of spiritual enrichment in Bermuda. In recognition of his achievements, Perry was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2007. He died on November 27, 2014, at age 92.