- This article concerns John Whitfield Bunn, Jacob Bunn, and entrepreneurs connected to Bunn brothers through associations or family connections and genealogies.
John Whitfield Bunn (June 21, 1831 - June 7, 1920) was a leader of American corporations, financiers, industrialists, and personal friends Abraham Lincoln, whose work and leadership involved various institutions ranging from the Midwestern Train, international finance , and Republican politics, corporate consulting, significant global manufacturing, and various American stock exchanges. He is very important in the history of commercial, civil, political, and industrial development and the growth of the states of Illinois and the Midwest of America, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. John Whitfield Bunn was born June 21, 1831, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Although every business institution founded or built by Bunn Brothers is no longer existent, and falls pure into the world of history, each of these businesses leaves a vital heritage of respectable industrial, commercial and civil vision for Illinois, the Midwest, and the United States.
Jacob Bunn (18 March 1814 - 16 October 1897), brother of John Whitfield Bunn, also an Illinois industrialist, financier, and close friend of Abraham Lincoln.
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Early life and early business experience
John W. Bunn is Henry Bunn's third son and Mary (Sigler) Bunn, both from Hunterdon County, New Jersey. The Bunn family is a Presbyterian, and they recorded the baptism of several children in the Presbyterian Church located at one time in Alexandria, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. There is evidence that the ancestors of the Bunn family originally purchased property from William Penn's heirs.
Henry Bunn was born October 19, 1772, in the City of Alexandria, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Henry Bunn was the son of Jacob Bunn (born 1736, died 1808) and Maria Elizabetha (unknown family name) (born 1744, died 1817). Henry Bunn married Mary Sigler (born 7 April 1788, died July 31, 1833). Henry Bunn and Mary (Sigler) Bunn had a prosperous farm in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and at the time of Henry Bunn's death in 1859 he left a plantation worth over $ 34,000. There is evidence that Henry Bunn, father of Jacob Bunn, John Whitfield Bunn, and George Whitfield Bunn, was involved in the banking business in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
Jacob Bunn married Elizabeth Jane Ferguson (born May 12, 1832, died 1885), daughter of Benjamin Ferguson and Sarah (Irwin) Ferguson, both natives of Washington County, Pennsylvania. Benjamin Ferguson is a building contractor who contributed to the building of Illinois's former Capitol State in Springfield. Sarah Irwin is the brother of banker and trader Robert Irwin (born November 7, 1808, died 1865) and John Irwin (born January 20, 1804, died 1857). Robert Irwin acts as a personal debt collector for Abraham Lincoln, and serves as a member of the board of directors of State Bank of Illinois. The Irwins family is a native of Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, is a Presbyterian, and originally from Scotland. A daughter of Robert Irwin is married to William Marston, a speculator and Wall Street financier who often works in partnership with Cornelius Vanderbilt, and is responsible for nearly $ 7 million of Michigan stock price rally & Prairie du Chien Railroad Company in 1865. William Marston earned personal gains between $ 1 and $ 2 million, in 1865, from an artificial rally, which he manipulated and caused when he quickly bought nearly 22,000 shares in Michigan & Prairie du Chien Railroad Company. The Irwin family is also connected with Holden Family of Cleveland, Ohio, which owns Island Creek Coal Company, Pond Creek Coal Company, and Forest City Publishing Company, publishers of The Plain Dealer and Hollenden Hotel.
John Bunn spent his childhood and early adulthood at a family farm located near Milford, New Jersey.
In 1847, at the age of 16, John W. Bunn left New Jersey to join his brother Jacob Bunn in wholesale trade wholesale in Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, which was induced to make the migration to Illinois positive and promising. the description Jacob Bunn gave during a return visit to the New Jersey farm where the two men grew up.
In 1858, John W. Bunn achieved status as a partner in wholesale company wholesale "J. Bunn Company."
The Springfield, Illinois, wholesale company changed its company name to reflect new changes in partnership, changed its official name to "J. & J. W. Bunn Company."
Ahead of maturing in the fast-growing state of Illinois, and achieving an increasingly prominent status among Illinois's commercial leadership, John W. Bunn developed a close friendship with statesman and lawyer Abraham Lincoln. John W. Bunn is a major member in, and one of the most important members and operators of the political, friendship and political support network of Abraham Lincoln, ever obtained from Illinois historian and scholar George A. Lawrence, an honorable description of having been one the closest personal and political friend of Abraham Lincoln himself.
friendship with Abraham Lincoln, mid-life and later in Illinois, and the industry's contribution to Illinois and the United States
Abraham Lincoln acts as a lawyer for Jacob Bunn, who is the older brother of John W. Bunn. In his own words, in his interview of personal memoirs and acquaintances with Abraham Lincoln, John Bunn declared that he and Lincoln were close friends and political allies. Abraham Lincoln serves on the committee for the establishment of Alton & Springfield Railroad Company along with Jacob Bunn, who leads traders and bankers Springfield John Williams, John Todd Stuart, John Calhoun, B. Webster, J. Brown, Pascal P. Enos, William Pickrell, and S. B. Opdycke.
Jacob Bunn and John Whitfield Bunn, along with many of their colleagues and friends, such as Stephen Trigg Logan, John Williams, and Ozias M. Hatch, became close friends of Abraham Lincoln, and assisted Lincoln in various ways in his 1860s presidential campaign. As part of the 1860 presidential campaign strategy that Lincoln acquired, in May 1859, Illinois Staats-Anzeiger, the German-language newspaper Springfield, Illinois, for further the cause of Republican politics among the German-speaking community in the region.. Lincoln obtained the Illinois Staats-Anzeiger through his banker, Jacob Bunn, who was a close friend and a Lincoln client. Jacob Bunn and his brother John Whitfield Bunn are close friends of Lincoln and his family, and are industrialists and financiers who form a network of national and international industrial firms ranging from Chicago railways and banks to global manufacturing firms in production and economic impact.. John Whitfield Bunn served as treasurer, and as one of the earliest financial contributors, the $ 5,000 presidential campaign fund of 1860 to Lincoln whose formation and establishment was originally proposed to John W. Bunn by Judge Stephen Trigg Logan, a former legal partner of Lincoln. Jacob Bunn, John Williams, Ozias M. Hatch, Thomas Condell, and Robert Irwin also included early financial contributors to campaign funding.
John Whitfield Bunn spent the rest of his life in Illinois, and maintained a varied and successful commercial, industrial, and philanthropic career that lasted from 1847 to 1920. A multimillionaire, John W. Bunn demonstrated philanthropic financial commitment and loyalty to common causes in Illinois..
During the period from 1847 to 1920, John W. Bunn achieved many commercial and industrial purposes, and contributed to the development of different industrial and civil sectors from Illinois during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Many of the businesses and civil institutions used by the Bunn brothers and their extended family are discussed below.
The J. & amp; J. W. Bunn Grocery Company
Starting as an entry-level employee at his brother's Wholelsale restaurant, John quickly rose to the level of responsibility, not only within the wholesale company, but in a variety of additional commercial and civilian organizations in Illinois, and throughout the United States as a whole. J. & amp; J. W. Bunn Grocery Company generated sales of approximately $ 200,000 around 1871. During the period when John W. Bunn acted with executive leadership in J & amp; JW Bunn Grocery Company, the company's profitability increased, and by 1880 the company's sales volume had reached $ 450,000, with its predicted 1880 sales volume growth to $ 500,000 for 1881. This business came to be known as the "Bunn Capitol Wholesale Grocery Company" in the 1950s. George R. Bunn Jr. manage this company and create a beverage division that eventually turns into Bunn-O-Matic Corporation, which also has a "BUNN" brand.
Illinois Watch Company and Sangamo Electric Company
John W. Bunn is an active participant in the development of industrial production of pocket watches for railroads, and serves as the founder, director and vice president of Illinois Watch Company of Springfield, Illinois. Illinois Watch Company, a significant global corporation of the rail logistics industry, operates branch offices in New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco. The assets of the Illinois Watch Company were sold, during 1927 and 1928, to Hamilton Watch Company of Lancaster, Pennsylvania for more than $ 5 million. John Whitfield Bunn also worked with Jacob Bunn and Benjamin Hamilton Ferguson in the management of Illinois Watch Company. The Illinois Watch Company is estimated by one source to have paid nearly $ 20 million in employee wages around 1920.
The Sangamo Electric Company was held on January 11, 1899 in Springfield, Illinois, by Jacob Bunn, Jr., Henry Bunn, Robert Carr Lanphier, and the inventor Ludwig Gutmann. The corporation grows institutionally as a division of the Illinois Watch Company, and develops a global presence in the electrical and defense industry measurement industry. In the mid-1920s, Sangamo Electric has produced more than 5,000,000 meters of electricity. Sangamo made many important contributions to national defense during World War II, and developed a water-meter mercury (1905), an impregnated sulfur cylinders condenser meter, various magnets, amperehour meters and Delco amperehour meters for the first electric start in a car. The company was finally present in almost every major state of the world in 1939. Sangamo Electric Company made many major contributions to the aircraft component industry in the United States, and Henry Bunn, son of Jacob Bunn, Sr., was an aviator and entrepreneur whose vision Sangamo Electric was so important for the company's entrance into the aviation industry. Furthermore, Sangamo Electric Company acquired Capitol Aviation, Inc., a fixed fixed base (FBO) operator with offices throughout the United States.
The name and logo of Sangamo Electric have been reborn with Sangamo BioSciences, founded by Edward Oliver Lanphier II, great-grandson of Sangamo Electric founder Robert Carr Lanphier Sr.
Springfield Marine Bank
Bunn served for many years as President and director of the historically significant Springfield Marine Bank of Springfield, Illinois. As President of Springfield Marine Bank, which is the oldest bank in Springfield, Illinois (established in 1851), John W. Bunn built the institution's financial resources successfully. In 1920, deposits deposited in Springfield Marine Bank amounted to about $ 5 million.
Selz, Schwab & amp; Chicago Company
Finally, John W. Bunn expanded its activities to include much industry and financial contribution to the economic growth and development of Chicago, Illinois. Bunn acts as a founding member of the shoe and boot company of M. Selz & Company, and held the executive position of Vice President with shoe manufacturer for several years before his death. The Chicago company, later known as Selz, Schwab & amp; The company, quickly achieved its international scope in its market, and tremendous profitability and profitability in its manufacturing business. Selz, Schwab Company at one time owned and operated eleven factories, and after the company disbanded and ceased to exist, during the Great Depression, one of the factories was transferred to five employees who started their career with the company as office boys. Prior to 1894, Selz, Schwab Company had generated annual revenues of more than $ 2 million. Selz, the Schwab Shoe Company has enjoyed the status as one of the largest shoe and boot manufacturers, if not the largest shoe and boot manufacturer in the world, and is known for fulfilling foreign orders to scale 1 million pairs of shoes and 500,000 pairs of shoes. The company's revenue was a multimillion-dollar figure in the early 20th century, and the company grew rapidly into one of the biggest manufacturing problems in the United States. Around 1931, one of Selz's eleven factories, Schwab & amp; The company generates, by itself, $ 6 million per year.
Donations to Illinois's insurance industry development
During February 1867, Bunn was a merger of two separate insurance companies. He served as a merger of the American Standard Life Insurance Company Springfield, Illinois, on February 25, 1867. Like his brother John W. Bunn, Jacob Bunn is also a merger of the American Standard Life Insurance Company. In addition, John W. Bunn served as a merger of the DuBois Insurance Company in Springfield, Illinois, on February 20, 1867.
Franklin Life Insurance Company
The historical record is the fact that merchant banker Benjamin Hamilton Ferguson, brother-in-law Jacob Bunn, serves as a merger of the Franklin Life Insurance Company in Illinois. The Franklin Life Insurance Company had nearly $ 178 million in life insurance in effect at the end of 1939, and had over $ 1 billion of life insurance prevailing in 1951. George Wallace Bunn, Sr., son of Jacob Bunn, and nephew John Whitfield Bunn, once served as a member of the board of directors of Lincoln Mutual Casualty Company in Springfield, Illinois, and also served as a consolidator of the Lincoln Victim Casualty Company, also from Springfield, Illinois, in 1920/1921.
John Whitfield Bunn, Jacob Bunn, and Midwestern railroad development
Contributions to Chicago's commercial development created by Bunn brothers include a broad portfolio of directors and executive contributions to several railroad firms with special economic significance to Chicago, Springfield, Illinois, and St. Louis. Louis, Missouri. Both Jacob and John W. Bunn were elected members of the board of directors of the Hannibal Railway Company and Naples in 1874.
Railroad Company Kansas City Railway
John W. Bunn contributed to the financing and incorporation of the Kansas City Air Line Railway Company, a company originally capitalized in 1879 with $ 600,000, and headquartered in Springfield, Illinois, which serves as a western expansion of Indianapolis, Decatur & amp; that already existed. Springfield Railroad Company, and it's meant to connect Indianapolis, Decatur & amp; Springfield Railroad Company Line to Chicago & amp; Line Alton Railroad Company.
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Middle-aged success
Terre Haute & amp; Peoria Railroad Company; and Toledo, Peoria & amp; Western Railway Company
John W. Bunn also serves on the board of directors of Terre Haute & amp; Peoria Railroad Company, $ 5.4 million (measured by equity capital in 1893) corporation whose main office is Decatur, Illinois. In addition, John W. Bunn is a member of the board of directors of Toledo, Peoria & amp; Western Railroad Company, a company whose equity capital exceeded $ 4 million in 1893.
North & amp; South Railway Company
John W. Bunn serves on the board of directors of North & amp; The South Railroad Company of Illinois, a company that capitalized on $ 2.8 million in 1890, and whose company precursor is St. Louis & amp; Chicago Railway Company.
Illinois Wabash Railroad Company
John W. Bunn was founder and president of the Illinois Wabash Railroad Company in 1877. The Wabash Railway system had about 16,000 rail cars in 1880.
Eastern Railway Company Wabash
John Whitfield Bunn serves as one of the five Wabash Eastern Railroad of Illinois incubators, along with General George Smith, Charles Henrotin, Abram M. Pence, and John N. Harlan. The Wabash East Railway Company was founded in May 1889, with major corporate offices in Chicago, Illinois, and an initial capitalization of $ 12 million. Bunn served as an incorporator and director with Charles Henrotin, George W. Smith, John Harlan, and Abram M. Pence, throughout Chicago.
Wabash Railway Company
John W. Bunn participated as the founder, consolidator and organizer of the Wabash Railway Company resulting from the consolidation of 1889. The Wabash Railway Company in 1889, where John W. Bunn was the founder of a major corporation, started his corporate existence. with a capitalization of $ 52 million. The Wabash Railroad Company in 1889 consisted of former Toledo & amp; Western Railroad Company, Detroit & amp; The State Railway Company, the existing Wabash Railroad Company, Wabash Eastern Railroad Company of Indiana, and Wabash Eastern Railroad Company of Illinois. John W. Bunn also served as the first board member of the Wabash Railway Company created through the consolidation of a railroad corporation in 1889. In 1902, the Wabash Railway Company owned a company asset of less than $ 150 million.
Springfield City Railroad
John W. Bunn took an active role in the development of intercity transport infrastructure in Springfield, Illinois, and helped establish and build Springfield City Railway Company in March 1866.
Belleville City Railway Company
In 1867, John W. Bunn acted as a merger of the $ 50,000 Belleville City Railway Company from Belleville, Illinois.
Chicago & amp; Company Alton Railroad
Jacob Bunn, also a rail capitalist, brother of John Whitfield Bunn, had served in 1861 as one of the official reorganizations and incorporators of Chicago & amp; Alton Railroad Company, along with other Chicago companies and civilian leaders including William B. Ogden. Chicago & amp; Alton Railroad Company, after experiencing consolidation on several occasions, owns equity shares issued nearly $ 40 million in 1919.
Chicago Safe Storage Company
In March 1869, Jacob Bunn has also become a consolidator of the Chicago Secure Depository Company, a significant Chicago safe storage agency included in the incubator John B. Drake, Joseph M. Medill, Potter Palmer, Lyman Trumbull, John Wentworth, WF Coolbaugh, Jonathan Scammon Young (J. Young Scammon), Ezra B. McCagg, John Villiers Farwell, Ira Y. Munn, George M. Pullman, William B. Ogden, and others.
Chicago Republican Newspaper Company and Chicago Inter-Ocean Company
Jacob Bunn was also the founder, and sole proprietor of the Chicago Republican Newspaper Company, hired by the state of Illinois in 1865, with an initial capitalization of $ 500,000. The Chicago Republican Newspaper Company, which is an institutional precursor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, provides a corporate framework within which Inter-Ocean is built. The Inter-Ocean Company achieved an average weekly circulation of 74,200 in 1877. The combined mix of the Chicago Inter-Ocean Company represents, in 1877, the largest combined circulation of every newspaper in Chicago. Chicago Inter-Ocean's total annual circulation has reached about eleven million in 1877.
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Jacob Bunn has established a private bank called J. Bunn Bank of Springfield, Illinois. The J. Bunn Bank quickly accumulated large capital assets during the nineteenth century, but due to what became an overextensive portfolio of real estate ownership during Panic 1873, J. Bunn Bank was forced into liquidation. Jacob Bunn voluntarily affects the liquidation of the bank, and is responsible for debts totaling about $ 800,000 in 1878. Jacob Bunn, acting from a deep conviction of honor, honesty, and loyalty, is personally responsible for the amount of debt remaining after forced sales bank assets failed to generate sufficient capital for full satisfaction of $ 800,000 debt. The debt was reduced by the forced sale of J. Bunn Bank assets to $ 572,000. As a result, Jacob Bunn, with the help of his brother John W. Bunn, and later help from his children, other family members, and many close associates and friends, managed to meet the remaining 28.5 percent of the original debt. Although Jacob Bunn died in 1897, his children, with a commitment to fulfill their father's desire to pay the entire debt, established a paid memorial trust, in 1925, the entire remaining original debt, a distribution affecting about 5,000 people. Payments are made at an additional rate of 5 percent per annum.
Springfield Springfield Iron Company and Springfield Gas & amp; Power Company
John W. Bunn is a founder, director, and vice president of Springfield Iron Company, organized in 1871, having a corporate office in New York City, Chicago, St. Louis, and Springfield, Illinois, and at one point was one of the largest manufacturers of iron products in the United States. After establishing a deep-rooted continental presence in the metal rail products industry, Springfield Iron Company was once the largest angular bar producer in the United States. Springfield Iron Company was absorbed in 1899 into a combination of iron and steel companies called the Republic of Iron & amp; Steel Company, a company with capital of $ 55 million in 1899. Financing of the Republic of Iron & amp; Steel Trust is provided by Manhattan investment banking firm William C. Sheldon & amp; Co. and Dominick & amp; Dickerman, the last one where Watson Bradley Dickerman ever served as founder and main member. Watson Bradley Dickerman is a personal friend and a very close business associate of both Bunn brothers. Dickerman served in 1890 and in 1891 as President of the New York Stock Exchange, was the director of Long Island Loans & Trust Company, and president of Norfolk & amp; South Railway Company. Dickerman began his career in finance and banking as a young employee and trainee from Jacob Bunn, at J. Bunn Bank of Springfield, Illinois. John W. Bunn served as director of Springfield Gas & amp; Electric Company in 1916.
John Whitfield Bunn and big family in business and industry
John Whitfield Bunn, Jacob Bunn, and the family of Bunn brothers, collateral, and marriage represent the continental network of corporate, industrial and financial entrepreneurship, executive leadership, and civil development. Some of historically important family associations of John and Jacob Bunn are provided below. Overall, these family associations are a long-standing series of visionary and civil works businesses.
George Whitfield Bunn and California banking, Texas petroleum, and land development
George Whitfield Bunn, brother of Jacob Bunn and John Whitfield Bunn, also born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, became a pioneer banker and land developer in Marin County, California, during the nineteenth century, and once had a very oil interest large in Texas, including more than 10,000 hectares (40 km 2 ) of the property that later became the main oil field in Texas. George Whitfield Bunn served as the incorporator and director of Bank of Tomales, California.
Connections New York City and Connecticut to finance and industry
In addition to having a direct relationship with the large body of civil and commercial associations held by his brother, Jacob Bunn, John W. Bunn connected indirectly with Leonard Richardson and William Henry Barnum of the Connecticut and New York industrial dynasty, through the marriage of a nephew, George Wallace Bunn, Sr., who is married to Ada Willard Richardson. There is Willard Richardson, daughter-in-law Jacob Bunn, and nephew of John W. Bunn, is the daughter of the renowned building contractor William Douglas Richardson. John Whitfield Bunn and William Douglas Richardson were partners in the business, and both men served as founders and directors of Springfield Iron Company, in August 1871, a company that originally capitalized $ 200,000. The stock of corporate capital increased in 1874 to $ 400,000. Leonard Richardson served as president of the Iron Bank in Falls Village, Connecticut.
Barnum & amp; Richardson Company of Connecticut and Chicago
William Douglas Richardson is the niece of Leonard Richardson of Lime Rock, Connecticut. Leonard Richardson is a pioneer in the development of the iron products manufacturing industry in New England and Chicago, having served as founder and owner of a large railway and iron products company known as Barnum-Richardson Company in Chicago and Lime Rock, Connecticut. Milo Barnum Richardson, son of Leonard Richardson, serves as director of Barnum & amp; Richardson Company along with other leading Chicago industrialists, including John Crerar. In addition, Milo B. Richardson serves in close relationship with the Connecticut Collis Potter Huntington railer in the formation of Huntington's Ensign Manufacturing Company, West Virginia. Milo Barnum Richardson, William Henry Barnum's nephew of Connecticut, President of the Barnum-Richardson Company, son of Leonard Richardson, and first cousin William Douglas Richardson and Ada Willard (Richardson) Bunn, serving as members of the Connecticut State Council Board of Justice Fair during the World Columbian Exhibition in 1893. William Douglas Richardson served the personal staff of architect Daniel Burnham as Inspector General of Building at the Columbus World Expo in 1893 in Chicago. As a result, John Whitfield Bunn, William Douglas Richardson, and Milo Barnum Richardson, all of which are linked either to blood or through marriage, each contributed to the development of the United States iron products manufacturing industry, as well as the leadership and execution of Columbus World Exposition 1893 (Chicago World's Fair ). Jacob and John Whitfield Bunn, along with William Douglas Richardson, Benjamin Hamilton Ferguson, and others, are cooperative associations for investment, entrepreneurship, industrial expansion opportunities, and civil and charitable purposes. Milo B. Richardson served on the board of directors of Caledonian-American Life Insurance Company in New York City, held in 1898. In harmony with rail product manufacturing, as well as the Richardson family's financial heritage, Milo B Richardson served as director of the Rochester Car Wheel Company in New York, Hartford & amp; Connecticut Western Railroad Company, and Falls Village Savings Bank.
Future success
Island Creek Coal Company
Elizabeth Jane Ferguson, the wife of Jacob Bunn and himself a leading philanthropist in Illinois, maternally related with the Holden family in Cleveland, Ohio, which owns Island Creek Coal Company, one of the most important coal and profitable in the United States.
Henry Stryker Taylor and Taylor-Stryker-Cunningham-Hart-Capps Lineage
Elizabeth Alice Bunn, the great-granddaughter of Jacob Bunn, married Illinois banker and financier Henry Stryker Taylor, one of the largest shareholders of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company (renowned investor Howard Butcher of Philadelphia at a time is also one of the Company's largest individual shareholders Pennsylvania Railway). Henry S. Taylor, the son of bank president and Illinois real estate expert Robert Cunningham Taylor, ran a 100-yard run in 9.6 seconds, held many track records, and captained track team at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, during the undergraduate years there. Robert Cunningham Taylor is president of agricultural and land company, co-founder and president of the People's Bank of Virginia, Illinois, president of Cass County Title & amp; Trust Company, one of the owners of King & amp; Taylor Company, home dealers and funeral home furniture, and director of Farmers National Bank of Virginia, Illinois. Robert Taylor, the father of Robert Cunningham Taylor, is a farmer, cattle trader, grain dealer, and landowner, who served as vice president and director of Farmers National Bank of Virginia, Illinois, as Mayor of Virginia, an elder in Presbyterian Church, and members of the local school board. Robert Cunningham Taylor, Jr., a Chicago banker and financier, brother of Henry S. Taylor, also a graduate of Knox University, then graduated from Harvard Business School in 1932. In addition to being the nephew of Dr. industrialist. Peter I. Stryker, who served as New Jersey Governor and as New Jersey legislator, Henry S. Taylor is the grandson of lawyer Henry Stryker, III, who was one of the founders and developers of real estate from Michigan summer resorts in the Little Traverse Bay area in Michigan. Henry S. Taylor is a descendant of many of the founding and industrial families of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, and New York, and is descended from Mayflower passengers William Brewster, John Alden, and William Mullins.
H. S. Taylor is the great-grandson of Dr. David Gill McClure of Rutland, Vermont, who is the founder of Lansing, Michigan, and his business community. Henry Brigham McClure, an Illinois judge, founder of college, and capitalist who is a great-grandfather of Henry Stryker Taylor, has served in the legal partnership of Yates, Brown & McClure with Richard Yates, an Illinois Governor during the Civil War.
Henry S. Taylor is a descendant of the Henshaw family of Connecticut, Illinois, and California, whose business interests include international shipping, shipbuilding, power generation, water rights acquisition and development in California, and multinational banking. Henry S. Taylor is a descendant of one of the branches of the Henshaw family, and is the third cousin of California banker and financier William Griffith Henshaw (1860-1924), who, together with his family, is the principal owner and developer of some of the largest water reservoirs and commercial water courses in California , and which promotes and helps build (after taking office on the board of directors) of International Banking Corporation, the predecessor of major and early companies for Citigroup.
Henry Stryker Taylor is the first cousin of Capt. Joseph H. Hart, one of the top ace pilots of Pan American Airlines, and who had flown over 2.5 million miles before dying in a fatal plane crash in the 1950s. John Hart, brother of Joseph Hart, and also Henry Stryker Taylor's first cousin, is an international businessman involved in South American trade with the United States. Captain Joseph H. Hart is an expert pilot from Pan Am Clippers, and is renowned for his knowledge and expertise with respect to this particular aircraft.
Henry Stryker Taylor is the cousin of owner J. Capps & amp; Son Company of Jacksonville, Illinois, which produces clothing and other textiles, achieved sales of $ 1 million annually in 1901, and employed about 500 people in 1901. William Thomas Capps, Sr., uncle Henry S. Taylor, was founder of the Company Midland Life Insurance in Chicago. Henry Taylor is Henry McClure Capps's first cousin, Hollywood's leading art director, husband of Ruth Goldwyn, and son-in-law of prominent producer Samuel Goldwyn.
Henry Stryker Taylor is the father-in-law of Thomas Keister Greer, Esq., A well-known corporate lawyer and attorney of the Virginia and California courts, representing or helping build some of the largest land companies in US history, and being one of the leading riparian rights lawyers in the United States assorted as general junior adviser to Miller & amp; Lux Company of San Francisco, and as general counsel for Salyer Land Company of California, and Crockett & amp; Company Gambogey of California. Henry S. Taylor is a cousin, through the maternal lineage, from Oliver Hazard Payne, a Cleveland financier who helps organize the American Tobacco Company, and United States Steel Company, and who is the tobacco industrialist partner and founder of the university James Buchanan Duke and Benjamin Newton Duke.
Charles Cunningham, Esq.
Charles Cunningham, Esq., Paternal uncle Henry Stryker Taylor, is a native of Scotland, serving as the British Consul (and formerly as Vice Consul) to Russia, and was instrumental in establishing the Danube River Commission system of tariffs and trade structures, serving as one of the founders Danube River Commission, and as the originator of the Commission concept. Cunningham is also involved in the trading business in Smyrna (now Izmir), in the Turkish country.
John Stryker
Furthermore, lawyer John Stryker of Rome, New York, who is the first cousin of Henry Stryker Taylor, who founded and owns the Michigan Southern Railroad Company, was one of the main founders of the New York Central Railroad, and established, controlled, and led many manufacturing problems which is widespread in New York State. The Southern Railroad system of Michigan capitalized at $ 200 million in 1914-1915.
William Beaumont Whitney from Philadelphia
The Philadelphia industrialist William Beaumont Whitney, the first cousin of Henry Stryker Taylor, has established and possessed, with Mahlon S. Kemmerer, Whitney & amp; Kemmerer Coal Company of Philadelphia, and had served on the board of directors of Girard National Bank of Philadelphia. Whitney served as vice president of Philadelphia Society of Law and Order, is an annual member of the American Archeology Institute, and is director of the Penn Mutual Insurance Company of Philadelphia. The Penn Mutual Insurance Company has achieved, with 1897, $ 147,973,567 of applicable insurance, with 59,411 policies enacted in 1897. Whitney also serves as president of Theodore Starr Savings Bank of Philadelphia, as president of Quaker City Electric Company of Philadelphia, and as director of the Gondolo Tannin Company in Philadelphia. Whitney served as coal department manager from Lehigh Coal & amp; The Navigation Company from 1864 to 1870, as treasurer of the Whitehall Portland Cement Company, treasurer of the Connellsville Coke and Iron Company, as treasurer of the Bishop White Prayer-Book Society, and a financial guardian of the Church of the Crucifixion for thirty years. five years. Whitney is also director of Coalga Coal & amp; Coke Company. Stonega Coal & amp; Coke Company, capitalized at $ 2 million in 1903, has two factories consisting of 666 ovens, and 500 ovens, respectively. Whitney is a Fellow of the American Geographical Society.
A. G. Edwards and Edwards family from Illinois and St. Louis
Benjamin Hamilton Ferguson, Elizabeth Jane's (Ferguson) Bunn's brother, married Alice Edwards, who is the daughter of Judge Benjamin Stephenson Edwards, and nephew Albert Gallatin Edwards (founder of A. G. Edwards Co.).
Joseph Wellington Willard and the explosive industry
Joseph Wellington Willard, first cousin of Ada (Richardson) Bunn, is an inventor and maker of explosives, and helps Lammot du Pont in the establishment of the Repauno Chemical Company near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Extended family engagement with New York and California banks
Connecting to the Bunn family has, through marriage and collateral relations, Robert Burns Motherwell, II, who had been Chairman of Wells Fargo, and Charles Stillman, who was once a controlling force behind National City Bank of New York, later known as CitiGroup. Robert Burns Motherwell, II, married the Hogan family (see below), and became the father of the famous American Expressionist School artist Robert Burns Motherwell, III.
The Hogan-Regan dynasty and international law, oil mining, and precious metal mining industry
Willard Bunn, Sr., grandson of Jacob Bunn, and nephew of John W. Bunn, married Ruth Regan of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Ruth Regan is a graduate of the Chicago Musical College, a church and school founder, and music education promoter. Ruth Regan is the sister of Mary Regan's lawyer (who changed her family name to "Rehan"). Mary Rehan started her career as an actress on Broadway, then studied at law school in New York City. Miss Rehan, a native of Chippewa Falls, has a law office at 230 East 71st Street in New York. He specializes in tariff law, and is said to be the first woman to be treated before the US Customs Court. Mary Rehan is a former chairman of the American Women's Association's jury award, and is the founder and principal protector of the International Bar Association. Mary Rehan gave up acting for law during the nineteen twenties and received LL.B. degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1927. During his first 10 years of training he worked at the Barnes, Chilvers & amp; Halstead. In 1937 he founded the company there and then opened the Washington branch. Mary Rehan is a founder, secretary, and treasurer of the Museum of Costume Art, which she helped find in 1937. She is director of the Metropolitan Costume Institute of the New York Museum of Art and an honorary colleague at the museum. Miss Rehan has become director of the National Club of Women's Republic. He supported Franklin D. Roosevelt for the Presidency in 1932, but in 1936, when he sought a second term, he helped organize and become the national treasurer of the Independent American Women's Coalition, an anti-New Testament group. In 1954 he received the Cite of Merit New York.
Robert Giles Regan, Mary's brother and Ruth Regan, is the founder and president of R. G. Regan Construction Company of Chicago. R. G. Regan served as a building contractor for the Motorola Corporation plant in Chicago, Petralager Building of Chicago, and Tropic-Aire Plant of Chicago, and served as chief executive of the Chatham Housing Project on the South Side of Chicago. RG Regan also serves as a contractor for either renovation or physical addition to the Higginbotham building in Joliet, Illinois, the Kennedy-Cochran building in Hillside, Illinois, Silver Cross Hospital, Munroe Hatchery, Tractor-Motive Corporation building in Deerfield, Illinois, Public Service at Joliet, and Atlas Wallpaper Company in Coal City, Illinois.
Ruth and Mary Regan was the first cousin attorney Thomas Stephen Hogan, who is the inventor and developer of Oil Permian Basin of Western Texas, Montana State Senator, and Secretary of State of Montana. TS Hogan build the first skyscraper in Midland, Texas, in 1929, known as the Tower of Petroleum, and serves as a catalyst for West Texas oil industry when he sold 74,000 acres (300 km 2 ) John T. McElroy Ranch to Franco-Wyoming Company for $ 3 million. T. S. Hogan operates mines in Mexico, Montana and Idaho. In addition, T. S. Hogan undertakes, operates, and owns oil exploration and production companies in Oklahoma, Indiana, Montana, Illinois, Colorado, Wyoming, Texas and Mexico. Hogan served as the founder of the Federal Farm Loan Bank System during the Great Depression, as Assistant Attorney US Department of Interior, as President of the National Coal Council of Labor Affairs, as the President of the largest labor organization in Montana at the age of 22, and as President of the United States Beet Growers Association. T. S. Hogan also serves as Chairman of the Denver Coal District Council (Colorado). Patrick Hogan, also the first cousin of Ruth (Regan) Bunn and Mary Rehan, is one of the leading wood producers in the State of Washington, and helped shape the Pacific wood industry. Another cousin of Ruth (Regan) and Mary Bunn Rehan is attorney John Carol Hogan, graduated from the University of Wisconsin (Madison), which contribute to the formation of the jurisprudence of the timber industry, representing many timber companies, and serves on the legislative Washington State. John Carol Hogan held a long-distance runner at the University of Wisconsin. John C. Hogan has also set up the Chippewa Bulletin newspaper in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, before leaving for Washington State. William Hogan, Mary's cousin Rehan and Ruth (Regan) Other Bunn, is the President of Oro Grande Gold Mining Company in Idaho, a prospecting company capitalized $ 1.5 million in 1922. Thomas Stephen Hogan, Patrick Hogan, John Carol Hogan, and William Hogan was the brother, and first cousin of Ruth and Mary Regan. Fred T. Hogan, son of Thomas Stephen Hogan, is a trucking/trucking businessman, one of the founders of Hogan & amp; Choate Oil Company, served as mayor of Midland, Texas, and was sworn in, along with his father, T. S. Hogan, into the Petroleum Hall of Fame.
Politics Republic, philanthropic citizens, and civic vision
John W. Bunn also showed a strong interest in the Illinois court of his time, and served as Delegate, representing the District of Sangamon, to the Illinois Judicial Convention in 1888. In 1874, the Convention of Springfield City nominated John W. Bunn for his post. Mayor of Springfield, although he immediately rejected the nomination. John W. Bunn is a close friend and supporter of Illinois statesman Shelby Moore Cullom. When Shelby M. Cullom served as Illinois Governor, Cullom relied heavily on the advice and influence of lawyers John W. Bunn and Chicago, Milton Hay, among others. During his tenure with the Illinois State Central Committee, Bunn served as Chairman on at least one occasion. John W. Bunn was an active participant in Republican politics at the state and national levels, and served as an active member of the Republican State Committee from 1872 to 1876, and again in such capacity from 1900 to 1902. John W Bunn was a member , along with James R. B Van Cleeve and Floyd K. Whittemore, from the Governor's Monument Committee of the John R. Tanner Monument Association, which aims to coordinate and implement plans to establish monuments to commemorate the legacy of John R. Tanner, once serving as Illinois governor. Of great importance is the fact that John W. Bunn serves as a major financial contributor to the presidential campaign of Abraham Lincoln.
John Whitfield Bunn, public works and civil associations and a significant contribution
John W. Bunn made a significant contribution to the coordination, and infrastructure of the company, 1893 World Columbian Exposition (World's Fair of 1893) in Chicago, Illinois, serving as a member of the World Council of Illinois, and after acting as Treasurer of the Board of Commissioners of the World of Illinois. John W. Bunn was a member of the board of directors of the Illinois Centennial Commission of 1918, whose primary purpose was the coordination and implementation of the Illinois state memorial service, which was reached on 3 December 1818. John W. Bunn served as Vice President, Director, Executive Committee member, and founder of Abraham Lincoln's Centennial Association (See: Abraham Lincoln Association), after establishing the Lincoln Centennial Association along with Melville Weston Fuller (a Chicago lawyer who served as United States Supreme Judge Chief Justice), Shelby Moore Cullom, Adlai E. Stevenson, Richard Yates , Melville E. Stone, Albert J. Hopkins, J. Otis Humphrey, Charles S. Deneen, John P. Hand, James A. Rose, Ben. F. Caldwell, Dr. William Jayne, and Horace White. The specific and expressive objects of the Lincoln Centennial Association are: "To truly observe the centenary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, to preserve to the descendants of memory of his words and works, and to stimulate the patriotism of the youth of the land with the proper annual practice. "John W. Bunn is active in the social, political, and commercial circles of Chicago and Springfield as members of the Union League Club of Chicago, as well as the Chicago Club, and Illini Country Club and Sangamo Club, both in Springfield, Illinois. Illinois Governor Richard Yates appointed John W. Bunn as Delegate, representing Chicago, to the National Conference on Taxation held in Buffalo, New York, in May, 1901. John Whitfield Bunn is a member of the respected Saddle and Sirloin Club of Chicago. During the Civil War, John W. Bunn served as a special envoy and coordinator for the mobilization and transfer of Union Army troops from Chicago to Cairo, Illinois. John W. Bunn also serves as a member of the Association of the Richard Oglesby Monument. Jacob Bunn and Elizabeth (Ferguson) Bunn has helped found Springfield Home for the Friendless, an orphanage for widows and orphans during the Civil War, and the Bettie Stuart Institute, a Springfield academy for girls.
City of Spas Town of Springfield, Illinois
With a good reputation as a trusted counselor and financial manager, John W. Bunn served as Springfield City, Illinois, Treasurer from 1857 to 1859.
Illinois Agricultural Council
John W. Bunn served as Treasurer of the Illinois State Council of Agriculture from 1858 to 1898. Bunn provided financial assistance to the Illinois State Fairs Association when he personally applied $ 15,000 to the Association for the purpose of enabling the liquidation of the debt that the Association held at a certain time in 1887.
Illinois Illinois Retirement Agent
During the period of the American Civil War that lasted from 1861 to 1865, John W. Bunn was appointed by Abraham Lincoln to serve as a Pension Agent for the State of Illinois.
University of Illinois
Having always taken a strong interest in welfare and education promotion, John W. Bunn served as the founding treasurer of the University of Illinois, after acting as the Treasurer of the University of Illinois from its institutional beginnings in 1868, until 1893.
Chicago Historical Society, waterway development
In addition, John Bunn is an active member of the Chicago Historical Society.
John W. Bunn assisted with the causes associated with the development of waterway infrastructure between The Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. In 1909, Bunn was appointed, alongside several other men, by the Illinois Governor as Delegates of the Water Ways Convention held in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Centennial International Exposition in the United States in Philadelphia
John W. Bunn was the founder of the US Centennial Commission of 1876, the corporate body that organized and conducted the 1876 International Year Exhibition of the United States in 1876, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Together with Illinois delegates and companions, Norman B. Judd, William B. Ogden, John Williams, William F. Coolbaugh, JM Adsit, Armor HO, DJ Ely, George Bruner, Charles Fisher, John C. Proctor, and LC Bull, John W Bunn acted as a merger of a $ 10 million company that provided the financial structure and directing of the 1876 United States Hundred Exhibition. In addition, Bunn served as founder and board member of the Lincoln Library of Springfield, Illinois. John Bunn, a lifelong bachelor, died on June 7, 1920 in Springfield, Illinois.
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