Edward Julius Berwind

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Edward Julius Berwind 1848–1936.

Edward Julius Berwind (born June 17, 1848 in Philadelphia , † August 18, 1936 in Newport , Rhode Island ) was an American entrepreneur and co-founder of the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company , which today operates as a large holding company under the name Berwind Corporation .

Life

Edward Julius Berwind was born in Philadelphia in 1848 to John Berwind and Charlotte Augusta Guldenfennig and had seven siblings, five brothers and two sisters. His parents were German immigrants. His father came from Bavaria and was a musical instrument maker , selling guitars and cisterns in Philadelphia and later also pianos . His mother came from what was then the Prussian province of Westphalia . Edward attended the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis , Maryland , where he graduated in 1869. He served as a Marine Advisor in Washington, DC during the tenure of Ulysses S. Grant until he resigned in 1872 due to unfit for service. He then worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad until 1880 .

The Edward J. Berwind House on 64th Street & 5th Avenue in New York City.

He then went into the coal business and founded with his brother Charles (1846-1890) and the former politician Allison White the Berwind, White and Company , renamed in 1886 Berwind-White Coal Mining Company . Edward J. Berwind was President of the Company until 1930 when he became Chairman of the Board . Due to its good contacts from the navy, among other things, the company became one of the largest coal miners, processors and suppliers in the United States at the end of the 19th century, supplying railroad lines, the United States Navy and steamship lines with coal from Pennsylvania and West Virginia . Edward J. Berwind was a longtime friend of JP Morgan and worked closely in the transportation business with Thomas Fortune Ryan and Peter Widener .

Edward J. Berwind married Sahra Vesta Herminie Torrey in 1886. In 1896 he had a magnificent town house built in New York City and from 1899 in Newport , Rhode Island , the stately home of The Elms as a summer residence, which is now a museum. He died in Newport on August 18, 1936, and his wife passed away in 1922.

literature

  • Charles Graham Berwind: The History of Berwind, 1886-1993. Berwind Group, 1993.
  • John N. Ingham: Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders, Volume 1. Greenwood Publishing, Westport, Conn. 1983, ISBN 978-0313239076 , p. 69 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jeff Goodell: Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006, ISBN 978-0-618-31-940-4 , pp. 29-31.
  2. ^ Charles Graham Berwind: The History of Berwind, 1886-1993. Berwind Group, 1993, p. 2 f.
  3. ^ A b c John N. Ingham: Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders, Volume 1. Greenwood Publishing, Westport, Conn. 1983, p. 69 f.
  4. ↑ 828 Fifth Avenue - Edward J. Berwind House. Vidaris, Inc., accessed February 1, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Berwind, Edward Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berwind, Edward J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1936
Place of death Newport