Robber baron definition

Robber barons: definition, significance, criticism and examples

America's Gilded age: Robber barons and Captains of Industry

24 robber barons that ruled America

• John Jacob Astor (real estate, fur) 
• Andrew Carnegie (steel) k
• Jay Cooke (finance) 
• Charles Crocker (railroads) 
• Daniel Drew (finance) 
• James Buchanan Duke (tobacco, electric power) 
• James Fisk (finance) 
• Henry Morrison Flagler (Standard Oil, railroads)
• Henry Clay Frick (steel) 
• John Warne Gates (barbed wire, oil) 
• Jay Gould (railroads)
• E. H. Harriman (railroads) 
• James J. Hill (fuel, coal, steamboats, railroads) 
• Collis Potter Huntington (railroads) 
• Andrew Mellon (finance, oil) 
• J. P. Morgan (finance, industrial consolidation) 
• John D. Rockefeller (Standard Oil) 
• Henry Huttleston Rogers (Standard Oil; copper),
• Thomas Fortune Ryan (public transit, tobacco) 
• Russell Sage (finance, railroads) 
• Charles M. Schwab (steel) 
• Leland Stanford (railroads) 
• Cornelius Vanderbilt (water transport, railroads) 
• Peter Widener (public transportation)
• Charles Tyson Yerkes (street railroads) 

Identified as "robber barons" by other sources:

• William A. Clark (copper) 
• James Dunsmuir 
• Marshall Field (retail) 
• William Randolph Hearst (media mogul) 
• Charles T. Hinde (railroads, water transport, shipping, hotels)
• Mark Hopkins Jr. (railroads) 
• John C. Osgood (coal mining, iron) 
• Henry B. Plant (railroads) 
• A. S. W. Rosenbach (antique bookdealer) 
• Joseph Seligman (banking) 
• John D. Spreckels (water transport, railroads, sugar) 

Databases

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Elon Musk (technology, automotive industry)

Bill Gates

Mark Zuckerberg

Warren Buffett

Michael Bloomberg

Jeff Bezos

Industrial age in America: robber barons and Captains of Industry

Rise of the robber barons - episode 2

Robber baron - Andrew Carnegie & his contemporaries

Gilded age, robber barons, & the rise of big business

the new robber barons

Robber barons - US history #41

The men who built America

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The PJC library has several books on robber barons or individual capitalist in the United States 1750 to date

Current books on Robber Barons

located at Sulphur Springs campus
America's 1st multimillionaire John Jacob Astor - author Alex Madsen 
Robber barons - author Matthew Josephson
From Christopher Colmbus to the robber barons: a financial history of the United Sates 1492-1900- author Jerry W. Markham
Dark Genius of Wall Street: the misunderstood life of Jay Gould, king of the robber barons author Edward J. Renehan, Jr.
Masters of Enterprise: giants of american business from John J. Astor and J.P. Morgan to Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey - author H.W. Brands
Robert Morris: financier of the American Revolution - Charles Rappleye