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See also: American See also: merchant and philanthropist, was See also: born in See also: Stockbridge, New See also: York, on the 16th of May 1832
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He was educated at Cazenovia See also: Academy, Cazenovia, N.Y., worked for several years on his See also: father's See also: farm, and in 1852 with a small party went overland to California, a large See also: part of the journey being made on See also: foot
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Here during the next four years he laid the See also: foundations of his See also: fortune
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In 1856 he became associated with his friend, See also: Frederick S
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See also: Miles, in a wholesale grocery and commission business at See also: Milwaukee, In 1863 he became the See also: head of the See also: firm of See also: Armour, Plankington & Co., pork packers, whose headquarters were at Milwaukee
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He also obtained a large See also: interest in the firm H
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O
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Armour & Co., which was founded by his See also: brother, Herman See also: Ossian Armour (1837-1901), and which, starting as a grain commission business, in 1868 established also a large pork-packing plant
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Of this firm, the name of which was changed to Armour & Co. in 187o, he became the head in 1875, and thereafter the business made such rapid progress that in 1901 as many as 11,000 hands were employed
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Besides contributing to many charitable enterprises, Armour founded the Armour Institute of Technology at See also: Chicago in 1892 and the Armour Flats in Chicago, built for the purpose of supplying at a low rental See also: good homes for working men and their families
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He also contributed liberally to the Armour See also: Mission in Chicago, which was founded in 1881 by his brother, See also: Joseph
Armour
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At the See also: time of his See also: death, on the 6th of See also: January 1901, See also: Philip D
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Armour's private fortune was supposed to exceed $50,000,000 . |
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