Woodside Presbyterian Church was built on land owned by a businessman born in what year?
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Woodside Presbyterian Church Woodside Presbyterian Church was built for Henry Burden, owner of the Burden Iron Works, on land owned by Erastus Corning, of Corning's Albany Iron Works, as part of an apparent reconciliation between these two often-feuding 19th century industrial giants.
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Erastus Corning Erastus Corning I (December 14, 1794 – April 9, 1872) was an American businessman and politician.
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Joseph Laing Waugh Joseph Laing Waugh (1868-1928) was a Scottish businessman and author.
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Theodore Pitcairn Theodore Pitcairn (November 5, 1893 – December 17, 1973) the son of PPG Industries founder John Pitcairn, was a clergyman, theologian, philanthropist, and connoisseur of the arts and antiquities.
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Philip W. Hiden Philip Wallace Hiden (April 5, 1872 – October 25, 1936) was a businessman and mayor in Newport News, Virginia.
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William R. Frist William R. Frist (a.k.a. Billy Frist) is an American heir, businessman, investor and philanthropist from Tennessee.
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John Crerar (industrialist) John Chippewa Crerar (8 March 1827 – 19 October 1889) was a wealthy American industrialist and businessman from Chicago whose investments were primarily in the railroad industry. Although he had a successful business career he is most well known for his philanthropic efforts, his activism in the Presbyterian Church, and his investment in the John Crerar Library.
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Hugh McFarlane Hugh McFarlane (June 23, 1815 – August 16, 1882) was an American businessman and politician.
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James Woods (Canadian business executive) Sir James Woods KBE (1855 – April 25, 1941) was a Canadian industrialist and philanthropist who was knighted in 1915 for wartime industrial work and named
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Wilfrid Wentworth Woods Sir Wilfrid Wentworth Woods {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (11 November 1876 – 7 January 1947) was a British colonial financial administrator.
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Charles Macalester Charles Macalester II (1798–1873) was a businessman, Presbyterian Church philanthropist, and namesake of Macalester College in Minnesota.
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Cyrus Woods Cyrus E. Woods (September 3, 1861 – December 8, 1938) was an American attorney, diplomat and politician.
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James L. Wells James Lee Wells (1843 in West Farms, Westchester County – September 5, 1928, in The Bronx, New York City) was an American businessman and politician. He became known as Father of The Bronx which title was officially conferred on him by the Bronx Board of Trade in May 1921.
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Charles Lathrop Pack Charles Lathrop Pack (May 7, 1857 – June 14, 1937), a third-generation timberman, was "one of the five wealthiest men in America prior to World War I". He owed his good start in life to the success of his father, George Willis Pack, and grandfather, George Pack, Jr. in the forestry sector. Growing up on Lake Huron in Michigan's Lower Peninsula, Charles L. Pack lived in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1871 to the early years of the 20th century. With "savvy investments ... in southern timber ... banking and real estate", Pack became a multi-millionaire. During World War I, he was a principal organizer and was heavily involved in the war garden movement in the United States.
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Samuel Dunbar Samuel Ross Dunbar, Sr., known as Sammy Dunbar (November 5, 1931 – August 31, 2014), was a businessman, landowner, and civic figure in his native Alexandria, Louisiana.
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George W. Barber George W. Barber (a.k.a. George Barber, Jr.) is an American businessman, real estate developer and philanthropist from Alabama.
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Samuel Hill-Wood Sir Samuel Hill Hill-Wood, 1st Baronet (21 March 1872 – 4 January 1949), born Samuel Hill Wood, was a British businessman, Conservative politician, cricketer and football club chairman.
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William Starr William Starr (March 3, 1821 – April 18, 1879) was an American businessman and politician.
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Isaac Roosevelt (businessman) Isaac Daniel Roosevelt (September 29, 1790 – December 24, 1863) was an American businessman and the paternal grandfather of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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William Manealoff William Manealoff (September 23, 1893 – August 1986) was an American businessman.
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Joseph J. Hadfield Joseph Jackson Hadfield (August 24, 1844 – May 18, 1894) was an American businessman and politician.
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Lemuel Grant Lemuel Pratt Grant (1817–1893) was an American engineer and businessman. He was Atlanta's quintessential railroad man as well as a major landowner and civic leader. In railroads he served as a laborer, chief engineer, speculator and executive all over the South. As part of his speculation, he owned enormous tracts of land in strategic areas. For example, at one point he owned more than 600 acre in what is now Atlanta. He designed and built Atlanta's defenses during the American Civil War and afterwards became an important civic leader: donating the land for Grant Park, Atlanta's first large park, and serving as councilman and on various boards and committees. His mansion is one of only four remaining original antebellum houses in the city of Atlanta.