Henry Morrison Flagler
Henry Morrison Flagler (born January 2, 1830 in Hopewell , New York , † May 20, 1913 in West Palm Beach , Florida ) was an American oil tycoon and owner of a railroad company and builder of the railroad on Florida's east coast ( Florida East Coast Railway ) , which he also equipped with lavish railroad hotels , for example in St. Augustine, Florida ( Hotel Ponce de Leon , now Flagler College ) or the Breakers Hotel ( Palm Beach , Florida). Flagler created the traffic basis for the expansion of the tourist infrastructure in step with the infrastructure itself, thereby upgrading the properties it had acquired cheaply.
The basis of Flagler's wealth, however, lay in the coal and steel industry . He brought this money to the Standard Oil Company . He was next to John D. Rockefeller , his brother William Rockefeller , Samuel Andrew and Stephen V. Harkness one of the 5 founding shareholders . Flagler's involvement in the tourist development of the east coast of Florida began in 1885 - roughly at the same time as the similar activities of Henry Bradley Plant on the west coast.
See also
- Henry Morrison Flagler House
- Flagler System (formerly FEC Hotel)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dominick T. Armentano: Antitrust and Monopoly . Anatomy of a Policy Failure. 2nd Edition. The Independent Institute, Oakland 1990, ISBN 978-0-945999-62-1 , pp. 312 (First edition 1982, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).
- ^ Ida Minerva Tarbell: The History of the Standard Oil Company . tape 1 . McClure, Phillips & Co., New York November 1904, pp. 406 ( (here online) [accessed July 15, 2012]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flagler, Henry Morrison |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hopewell , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 20, 1913 |
| Place of death | West Palm Beach , Florida |