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Events with high posterior probability

John Samuel Eastwood	Although he was awarded 5,400 shares of stock in the newly formed Pacific Light and Power Corporation (which was legally distinct from the earlier PL&P Company), this financial interest soon disappeared when in the summer of 1912 Huntington, as majority stockholder, assessed all owners of Pacific Light and Power Corporation stock $ 5 per share to help pay for the construction of Big Creek.
Charles Herbert Allen	In 1910 he became the Treasurer of the American Sugar Refining Company, the largest of its type in the world.
Ed Klepfer	After baseball, Klepfer became an independent oil operator and then in 1946 went to work for C. W. Titus, an oilman in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
John Roach	In 1867 he purchased the Morgan Iron Works on New York's East River, and relocated his business there.
Charles W. Morse	Morse controlled the Hudson Navigation Company until its bankruptcy in 1921.
Hugh J. Chisholm	Chisholm was the second president of International paper company, succeeding its first president The Hon. William Augustus Russell who died suddenly in January 1899 after founding IP with Chisholm which was then the largest paper company in the world.
John Catsimatidis	In 2008 Catsimatidis became engaged in efforts to take over SemGroup LP, a bankrupt oil, gas, and asphalt trading, storage and transportation company, headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Charles T. Beaird	When it was purchased by Emerson Electric in 1973, Beaird became chairman of the Beaird-Poulan Division of Emerson, known for its WeedEater products.
Edgar Percival	A total of 21 were constructed before Percival sold his company in 1960 to Samlesbury Engineering ; the new company formed Lancashire Aircraft Company to continue aircraft construction of the E. P. 9.
Thomas A. O'Donnell	When Doheny became interested in Mexican oil holdings in 1907, O'Donnell handled his interests in California and helped form the American Petroleum Company, followed by the American Oil Fields Company, holding the positions of vice-president and field manager of both companies.
Redfield Proctor	In 1880, this company merged with another to become the Vermont Marble Company, over which Proctor served as president.
F. Blair Wimbush	In June 2004, F. Blair Wimbush, Jr., was elected Vice President, Real Estate of Norfolk Southern Corporation, parent company of Norfolk Southern Railway Company.
F. Augustus Heinze	Following Heinze's departure, the Bingham Central Railway Company (Mascotte tunnel) was rolled into the new Ohio Copper Company and the combined company was named the Ohio Copper Mining Company of Utah, which operated until 1951.
Henry E. Huntington	Henry E. Huntington was the nephew of Collis P. Huntington, one of The Big Four, the men instrumental in creating the Central Pacific Railroad (later called Southern Pacific), one of the two railroads that built the transcontinental railway in 1869.
Frederick Russell Burnham	He and his father became minority owners of the Burnham Exploration Company, incorporated in 1919 by Harris Hays Hammond (the son of John Hays Hammond, Sr).
Peter Fitzgerald (politician)	His father, Gerald, built Suburban Bancorp, a chain of suburban banks, by aggressively founding and buying banks around the Chicago suburbs, which he sold in 1994 to a subsidiary of the Bank of Montreal for $ 246 million.
Louis Lloyd Winter	As his manufacturing business expanded, Winter then purchased a four story industrial building at 77 Florence Street, the former candy manufacturing facility of Jenny Lynn Chocolates, and on August 21, 1959, he incorporated Empire Laboratories Limited.
Anson Stager	In the spring of 1848, he was made chief operator of the'' National lines'' at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he made several improvements in battery and wire arrangement.
Clifford B. Harmon	Harmon's real estate success came from developing suburban New York, New York villages, such as Pelhamwood and Harmon-on-Hudson (incorporated into Croton-on-Hudson, New York in 1932).
Henry Clay Folger	Beginning in 1881, he worked for the Standard Oil trust of John D. Rockefeller, getting his start in the oil business at Charles Pratt & Company, a refinery owned by Charles Pratt, the father of his Adelphi and Amherst classmate Charles Millard Pratt.
Edward S. Jordan	He then joined the National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio for a year, and in 1907 began a nine-year affiliation with the Thomas B. Jeffery Company in Kenosha, Wisconsin, manufacturers of the Rambler and the Jeffery automobile, where he served as secretary and manager of advertising, publicity and sales, and eventually as general manager.
Chauncey Depew	The Village of Depew, New York, incorporated in 1894 and once home to a New York Central Railroad factory, is named after Chauncey M. Depew.
William Boeing	When America entered the First World War in April 1917, Boeing changed the name of Pacific Aero Products Co. to Boeing Airplane Company and obtained orders from the United States Navy for 50 planes.
Samuel Insull	In 1907, Insull's two companies formally merged to create the Commonwealth Edison Co.
Henry Wells	In Aurora he was president of the First National Bank of Aurora and in 1867 also the first president of the Cayuga Lake Railroad.
Gurdon Wattles	By 1901 Wattles consolidated all the independent streetcar lines in Omaha into one company called the Omaha and Council Bluffs Streetcar Company, which later became the Omaha Traction Company.
Paul Desmarais	By 1968 the holding company which Desmarais had acquired three years earlier, Trans-Canada Corporation Fund (TCCF), owned the bus line Provincial Transport, an interest in Toronto-based Imperial Life Assurance and Gesca Ltée, (which had an interest in the Montreal paper La Presse).
J. Wesley Gephart	After Gephart left the presidency in 1895, the furnace, the Nittany Valley Railroad, and associated ore lands had come into the hands of the Empire Steel and Iron Company.
Adam S. Bennion	He then returned to Utah Power and Light but in 1947 became the director of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.
James Grant (Iowa politician)	In 1851, he invested in and became the first president of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad.
Sosthenes Behn	After his return from military service, Colonel Behn co-founded the Puerto Rico Telephone Company which eventually spawned ITT Under his direction ITT was granted the monopoly of telephone service in Spain (Compañía Telefónica Nacional de España) in 1924, and purchased the international division of Western Electric.
James C. Donnell	In 1924, Donnell gained control of the Lincoln Oil Refining Company in Robinson, Illinois, giving Ohio Oil its own refining capacity.
Granville Woods	After receiving the patent for the multiplex telegraph, he reorganized his Cincinnati company as the Woods Electric Co, but in 1892 he moved his own research operations to New York City, where he was joined by a brother, Lyates Woods, who also had several inventions of his own.
William Henry Wattis	In January 1921, Wattis was elected General Manager and President of Utah-Idaho Sugar Company and Vice President and General Manager of the Canadian Sugar Company Ltd., the Canadian branch of Utah-Idaho Sugar Company.
Pierre Danon	In October 2011, he was elected non-executive director of Standard Life, an life insurance company based in Edinburgh.
Pasquale Simonelli	When, in 1932, the Italian Savings Bank and the East River Bank merged, giving birth to a new Institution named East River Savings Bank in New York City, Simonelli was appointed Vice-President and Trustee of this Bank with his Office at 225 Lafayette Street.
Thomas Edison	In 1878, Edison formed the Edison Electric Light Company in New York City with several financiers, including J. P. Morgan and the members of the Vanderbilt family.
William B. Franklin	Following the Civil War, General Franklin relocated to Hartford, Connecticut, and became the Vice-president of the Colt Firearms Manufacturing Company until 1888, as well as a director on the boards of several manufacturing concerns.
Franklin B. Gowen	In collaboration with his close friend, George deBenneville Keim -- who had bought Gowen's Pottsville home in 1864, and was subsequently appointed first president of the Coal & Iron Co. -- Gowen's perhaps most crucial business bet was made upon these lands : development of the Pottsville Twin Shaft Colliery.
Isaac Newton Van Nuys	Van Nuys also served as vice-president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank, a director in the Union Bank of Savings, a director in the Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company, and owner of the Van Nuys Hotel, which was erected in 1896 in Downtown Los Angeles.
Mark Taylor (politician)	Taylor is Chief Executive Officer of the Fred Taylor Company, an Albany transportation and warehousing firm, as well as several of its subsidiaries.
Simon Bolivar Buckner	He remained in New Orleans, worked on the staff of the Daily Crescent newspaper, engaged in a business venture, and served of the board of directors of a fire insurance company, of which he became president in 1867.
Charles Cahan	-LSB- 2 -RSB- In 1902 Charles Cahan became general counsel and on-site manager of the Mexican Light and Power Company Limited.
Clayton Marks	In 1940, Marks was instrumental in changing the name of National Builders Banks of Chicago to LaSalle National Bank.
Calvin S. Brice	Brice eventually rose to president of the company in 1887, which by then had become known as the Lake Erie and Western Railroad.
E. Hunter Harrison	Harrison was later promoted to an operator position with the'' Frisco'' and, later, with Burlington Northern Railroad (BN) following that company's acquisition of the Frisco in 1980.
John Crosthwaite	In early 1974 he was head hunted along with five other car engineers and executives including George Turnbull (businessman) by the South Korean company Hyundai Motor Company to help start up their now thriving car production company.
Charles Edward Adams (industrialist)	He briefly joined Foster & Adams and became treasurer of the Air Reduction Co. in 1918.
Thomas Mellon Evans	In 1939, he was able to purchase the bankrupt H. K. Porter, Inc., a manufacturer of light-duty railroad locomotives that he would diversify into the steel, hardware, and construction material business before converting the company into a holding corporation that would, during Evans time, take over more than eighty U. S. companies.
Jerry Voorhis	When that company dissolved, Charles Voorhis became an executive of the Oakland Motor Car Company, which became the Pontiac division of General Motors, and finally of the Nash Motor Company before his 1925 retirement.
Henry Howard (Rhode Island)	When it was incorporated in 1865 as the Harris Manufacturing Company, Howard was named the president.
Reginald Fessenden	As early as 1904 he had helped engineer the Niagara Falls power plant for the newly formed Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
Murray M. Harris	By 1913 Harris's new company experienced financial difficulties and came under the umbrella of the Johnston Piano and Organ Co.
J. Paul Getty	Shrewdly investing his resources during the Great Depression, Getty acquired Pacific Western Oil Corporation, and he began the acquisition (completed in 1953) of the Mission Corporation, which included Tidewater Oil and Skelly Oil.
J. P. Morgan	In 1892 Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric.
John Cheever Cowdin	A director of Curtiss-Wright, Cowdin was considered a leader in aviation financing, notably associated with fellow financier George Newell Armsby in the investment house of Blair & Co., which merged with BancAmerica to form Bancamerica-Blair in 1931.
Abram Fitkin	On October 30, 1922, Fitkin took over the Clearwater Lighting Company in Clearwater, Florida through the Tide Water Power Company, and merged its assets with those of the St. Petersburg Lighting Company on November 15, 1922 to create the original Florida Power Corporation.
Ernest Sprague	As of 1915, he was the construction manager of the American Bridge Co. in Cleveland, Ohio.
Cliff Thornton	Thornton retired from Southern New England Telephone Corporation, in Connecticut in 1997 where he was a middle-level manager.
Albert Fink	He left the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in 1857 to become the assistant of George McLeod, chief engineer of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
Ronald K. Richey	Globe Life was purchased by Torchmark Corporation (hereafter referred to as'' Torchmark'' or'' The Company''), and in 1982 Richey was elected President of the Birmingham, Alabama - based Torchmark Corporation.
Lysander Spooner	and in 1844, Spooner founded the American Letter Mail Company, which had offices in various cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York.
Packard Bell (1926)	Packard Bell was an American regional radio manufacturer founded in 1933 by Herbert A. Bell and Leon Packard.
Henry G. Davis	By 1892, the Davis Coal and Coke Company, a partnership between Davis and his son-in-law, Senator Stephen Benton Elkins, was among the largest coal companies in the world.
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr.	In 1931 he and other directors of the bankrupt Sonora Products Corporation of America (formerly Acoustic Products Company, in the phonograph and radio business) were sued by the Irving Trust Company.
Beaudry Leman	In 1906, he left the Shawinigan Water & Power Company and became involved in the construction of the Saint Maurice Valley railroad.
Thomas M. Carnegie	A division of the Union Iron Mills (named the Isabella Furnace Company) was organized on December 1, 1870, and the company's first blast furnace (named the'' Lucy furnace'' after Thomas' wife) was constructed on 51st Street in Pittsburgh.
Glenn English	Upon his departure from Congress in 1994, English became CEO of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), based in Arlington, Va.
Robert M. McFarlin	In 1910, McFarlin, Harry Sinclair and some others organized the Exchange National Bank of Tulsa, which later became the National Bank of Tulsa, and is now the Bank of Oklahoma (BOK).
Elwood Haynes	He merged the Haynes Stellite company with Union Carbide in 1920, and after passing through different owners, the company was renamed and is now called Haynes International.
Robert Winsor	By 1895, Winsor on behalf of Kidder, Peabody was able to gain control of both companies, reorganizing them into one unified public transit system of subways and surface and elevated lines serving metropolitan and suburban Boston.
Sylvester T. Everett	He served as Vice-President and Treasurer of the Valley Railway Company, completed in 1880, which ran between Cleveland and Akron.
John M. Diven	In 1912, Diven became manager of the municipal water works system of Troy, New York.
Robert Stempel	In March 2010, he had joined the board of directors of Genesis Fluid Solutions Holdings, a water purification company in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Joseph Lowthian Hudson	Hudson also supplied the seed capital for the establishment, in 1909, of Roy D. Chapin's automotive venture, which Chapin named the Hudson Motor Car Company in honor of J. L. Hudson.
Herbert Felix	After the war, Herbert Felix returned to Eslöv to continue to develop the company, which he purchased together with the chairman of the board in 1948.
Matthew Ridgway	He relocated to the Pittsburgh suburb of Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania in 1955 after accepting the Chairmanship of the Board of Trustees of the Mellon Institute as well as a position on the board of directors of Gulf Oil Corporation among others.
Maurice L. Ayers	In 1872 he was part of a group of men, including J. I. Case, who founded the Bank of Burlington (which would eventually be acquired by Marshall & Ilsley Bank.
George Strake, Jr.	After his father's death in 1969, he became an independent oil and gas operator.
Charles Hook Tompkins	Tompkins and his wife founded their company in 1911, and from that beginning with a few hundred dollars savings their company grew to be one of the Nation's largest.
Isaias W. Hellman	In 1893, Hellman incorporated the first trust company in California, the Union Trust Company.
Roy Speer	In early 1980, Roy formed U. S. Hydrocarbons Drilling and Development, Inc., and oil and gas drilling exploration operation in southeastern Texas.
Frank White (governor)	He organized the Middlewest Fire Insurance Company and served as its president until 1913, when the company merged with Twin City Fire Insurance Company.
Duncan Curry	In 1852, he was one of the founding officers of the Republic Fire Insurance Company, known as'' The Pioneer Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
Isaac R. Trimble	He was a construction engineer for the Boston and Providence Railroad ; chief engineer for Pennsylvania Railroad predecessors Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad, Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, and Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Railroad ; and superintendent (1859 -- 61) for the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad.
Bert R. Bulkin	From then until 1972, he was the director of advanced project development for the electro-optical division of International Telephone and Telegraph in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Bernard N. Baker	In 1881, with the support of the Pennsylvania Railroad (which wanted a transatlantic outlet for its freight business) Baker established the Atlantic Transport Line (A. T. L.).
Ginery Twichell	Twichell served the Santa Fe Railroad for three years, leaving in 1873 to return to Massachusetts where he led the Boston, Barre and Garden Railroad and the Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railroad.
William Jackson Palmer	His dream became a reality for his successors when, in 1892, CC&I merged with the Colorado Fuel Company to form Colorado Fuel and Iron.
Abraham Lincoln Keister	He organized the Scottdale Savings & Trust Co. in 1901, with which he was connected until the time of his death.
Frederic Adrian Delano	In 1905 he became president of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad, of the Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway, and of the Wabash Railroad.
Augustus Lowell	He was also, as of 1878, a director of the Pacific Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, the largest textile combine of its time.
Charles F. Brush	The California Electric Light Company (now PG&E) purchased two generators from Charles Brush's company in 1879 and soon opened a second plant with 4 additional generators.
William Henry Richmond	Richmond financed the launch of other business enterprises during his life, including the Crystal Lake Water Company and in 1867 the Carbondale Gas Company.
J. Wesley Gephart	Gephart was named president of the Valentine Iron Company, which was chartered January 23, 1891, to take over Centre Iron's property on behalf of the bondholders and re-open Valentine Furnace.
Frank Rockefeller	Frank found stability when he invested in the Buckeye Steel Castings Company of Columbus in 1892.
Walter Chrysler	Chrysler phased out Maxwell and absorbed it into his new firm, the Chrysler Corporation, in Detroit, Michigan in 1925.
Francis B. Stockbridge	In 1882, Stockbridge purchased the site of the famous Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island and arranged financing for its construction from the three major transportation companies that rendered service to the island at the time : the Michigan Central Railroad, the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, and the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company.
Hector de Castro	Resigned from American Cable Company in 1890 to accept position as Secretary of the Intercontinental Railroad Commission In 1890, de Castro married Grace Aldrich of New York.
Adolph Coors	In 1926 he moved to Inglewood, California where he set up his own porcelain plant, the H. F. Coors Company.