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Walther von MummAfter the War, he salvaged little of his fortune, and lost what remained in the 1929 Wall Street crash.
Tim VigorsHe continued to work as a bloodstock agent and in 1983 returned to Newmarket, Suffolk, handling the syndication of the successful sire Indian Ridge and helping to secure High Chaparral's dam, Kasora, at auction for Sean Coughlan.
Henry Browne BlackwellIn 1850, at the age of twenty-four, Blackwell became the traveling partner of Coombs, Ryland, and Blackwells, making semi-annual two-month-long horseback journeys through Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, selling hardware to country merchants and collecting payments due the firm.
Michael Schmidt (agriculture)Raised in Germany with a Masters in Agriculture, he practices biodynamic principles of farming on his farm, Glencolton, in Durham, Ontario, which he and his wife purchased in 1983.
Stanley DashewIn 1942, he took a promotion from Addressograph-Multigraph to move to Grand Rapids, Michigan where he established a successful business machines sales agency.
Precious McKenzieAs a result of contacts made during the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand, he decided to settle in that country where, rather than operate as a factory worker, he was offered the opportunity to be a weight trainer in a gym.
Gulam Noon, Baron NoonIn 1994 a fire in his factory destroyed everything, however within 10 weeks of this fire the company had begun selling its products again.
Mama LolaAfter which, she began to employ the skills her mother had taught her and started making a living from home ; it was also during this time that her relationship with the spirits grew stronger (77) In 1965, she was finally able to raise enough funds to bring her children to live with her in Brooklyn after establishing herself as a respected Mambo among the Haitian immigrant community in Brooklyn (along with working several side jobs) (225).
Emil JellinekHe acquired a large mansion which he named Villa Mercedes to run the business from and by 1897 he was selling about 140 cars a year and started calling them Mercedes.
Rolf StenersenFrom 1925 he was running his own business, A/S Stenersen og Waage, which operated in the rubber business and the Dutch stock market.
Dan Borislow In 2005, after retiring from business to focus on his horse racing career, Borislow set forth plans for a new voice-over-IP business, with an initial name of Talk4free.
Eddie BuczynskiIn January 1975, he lost his job due to the economic recession, but was able to secure a job as an office boy at J. Aron and Company, a commodities trading corporation based in Wall Street.
David Evans (administrator)Evans' father sold his share of the business and retired from active employment in 1993.
John Moisant He and his brothers moved to El Salvador in 1896 and bought sugar cane plantation s that generated a substantial sum for the family.
Janet Ross In 1867 the Egyptian banking system underwent a crisis that diminished Henry Ross's investments and ended his banking career.
Stephen JubaHis father, a building contractor, saw his practice decline after the stock market crash of 1929.
Charles Frederick WorthWorth found a wealthy Swede, Otto Bobergh, who was willing to bankroll the venture and opened the dressmaking establishment of Worth and Bobergh in 1858.
Timothy C. SlaterBecause of the inherent operating risks of working in ship yards and off-shore, Slater discontinued his work with sea foam in 1969 and became a business broker specializing in helping companies find buyers and sellers for many small and medium sized family businesses that provided goods and services in the growing petroleum industry.
Pitt HornungHaving acquired a passion for both the breeding and racing of horses, Pitt eventually established his own stud, registering the West Grinstead Stud in 1924.
Henry Morgan (merchant)In 1844, after gaining sound knowledge of the textile business and having saved a small amount of money from ten years of hard work, an ambitious Henry Morgan decided to emigrate.
Nduese EssienHe left to start a business consultancy practice in 1979, and later ran a successful company marketing books for students.
Divine (performer)Opening in 1970 as'' Divine Trash'', the store sold items that Divine had purchased in thrift stores, flea markets and garage sales, although had to move from its original location after he had failed to obtain a license from the local authorities.
William LyonsHe retired completely to Wappenbury Hall in 1972, to play golf, travel, garden, and keep prize-winning Suffolk sheep and Jersey cattle on his farm estates at Wappenbury.
Jeroen Boere After his pub ownership ended, Boere moved to Spain, in September 2004, to work as a real estate agent.
Alexander FlemingHe also kept, grew, and distributed the original mould for twelve years, and continued until 1940 to try to get help from any chemist who had enough skill to make penicillin.
John Derby AllcroftAllcroft began in his father's glovemaking business and in 1867 was able to buy the Stokesay Castle estate in Shropshire.
Bervin E. PurnellIn 1960, the Purnell furniture business (which had included contracts for furniture at Old Parliament House in Canberra) closed, due in part to Purnell's ongoing illness and old age.
Bernard Boutet de MonvelThe stock market crash of 1929 and the subsequent cancellation of several portrait commissions were an opportunity for him to finally and freely paint a series of New York cityscapes, through which he endeavoured to capture the cold, dehumanised modernity of a city under construction.
Sam McDowellA slipped disc cost him two months of the season, A failed business venture had left McDowell $ 190,000 in debt, and by early 1980 was living with his parents at his childhood home in Pittsburgh while selling insurance.
Susan B. AnthonyIn June 1870, Laura Curtis Bullard, a Brooklyn - based writer whose parents became wealthy from selling a popular morphine-containing patent medicine called'' Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup'', bought the rights to The Revolution for one dollar, with Anthony assuming its $ 10,000 debt, an amount equal to $ in current value.
Leonard OsbornOsborn left the D'Oyly Carte company in November 1959, to enter the retail business in Surrey, occasionally directing amateur productions.
Robert Sangster Sangster continued to invest in yearlings in partnership with associates that included Danny Schwartz, who had made a fortune as a builder in California, and, from 1979, Stavros Niarchos, the Greek shipping tycoon and sometime rival of Sangster at the sales.
William Kelly (inventor)After a fire destroyed their warehouse, William and his brother John decided to move to Eddyville, Kentucky in 1847 to enter the iron industry.
Dennis BroadfieldIn 2002 he retired from journalism and moved to the South of France where he founded and now runs the property finding company, Totally Riviera.
Frank FujitaFujita was the second of five children, born on October 20, 1921 in Lawton while his father worked in the food industry in Oklahoma, enhancing his income further with gambling wins and moonlight in artistry and sign painting.
Wilton Hack He settled on a farm at nearby Clarence Town, New South Wales, deriving an income from painting, instruction in drawing, and development and sales of a stump extractor'' Little Demon'' which he patented in 1884.
Alton NewellIn 1938, Newell moved to Texas and bought a small scrap yard and constructed a portable metal baler to assist in processing scrap metal.
Allan Clarke (footballer born 1946) Clarke has pursued business interests since 1993, through being a travelling salesman for MTS Nationwide, a firm based at Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
John CheeverAfter the 1932 crash of Kreuger & Toll, in which Frederick Cheever had invested what was left of his money, the Cheever house on Winthrop Avenue was lost to foreclosure.
William Henry CushingIn 1885 he opened a sash and door factory, which made him wealthy.
Sarah PalinHer husband Todd worked for the British oil company BP as an oil-field production operator, retiring in 2009, and owns a commercial fishing business.
John StenhouseHitherto Stenhouse had been living on a fortune that had been left to him by his father ; however, in 1850 the Glasgow Commercial Exchange Company failed and his inheritance was lost.
Paul PapaliaHe left the navy in 2004, and operated a small business renovating houses up until the time of his election to parliament.
Samuel Morley (MP)By 1860 he was sole owner of both the London and Nottingham parts of the business, and as it grew rapidly into the largest of its kind in the world he became very wealthy, and a model employer.
Jane RossAfter the death of her father in 1955, Ross became chairwoman of her family's timber industry business, and was heiress to that fortune.
Barry Prudom Prudom subsequently established himself as a grocer, and purchased a shop for his wife on Quarry Street, Leeds, but by 1977 he was working for the petroleum industry in Saudi Arabia to earn more money.
Frank D'AmelioIn March 1983, his brother and sister were able to get him a position as a blackjack dealer in Las Vegas at a considerable increase in salary compared to his construction work.
Michael KeepingHe continued to turn out occasionally for Fulham until 1941 when he returned to Milford to join the family motor business.
Roman VishniacThe Vishniac family fled from Lisbon to New York City in 1940, He managed to do some portraiture work with mostly foreign clients ; but business was poor.
Thomas FarquharIn 1922 he sold his clothing business to purchase a farm in Mindemoya on Manitoulin.
Doug AultHe retired in 1994, and went to the automobile business, but a series of personal tragedies and business failure s plagued him in later life.
Timothy LearyLeary's activities interested siblings Peggy, Billy and Tommy Hitchcock, heirs to the Mellon fortune, who in 1963 helped Leary and his associates acquire a rambling mansion on an estate in Millbrook (near Poughkeepsie, the site of Vassar College), where they continued their experiments.
Childe WillsAlthough Wills still supported his factory, the company lost money every year, and Wills shut the doors in 1927.
Harry C. HatchHatch started out with a small liquor store in Whitby, Ontario and prospered to the point where he was able to purchase the controlling interest of Gooderham & Worts Ltd. in 1923.
Paul DresserIn 1867 his father and two partners purchased and operated a new mill, but the business lost its roof in a storm and the men sold it for a loss.
John F. Leeming With the upsurge of aviation during the First World War, John built his next glider in 1921 in his parents' cellar, later moved to their garage at Bowdon Cheshire (now Greater Manchester), as it got bigger, then the greenhouse.
Colin Campbell RossIn April, 1921 the Ross family returned to Melbourne, where Colin Ross, with his brothers Stanley and Ronald, bought a wine shop in the Eastern Arcade, in the business centre of Melbourne.
Peter Percival ElderHe resigned from the bank in 1873 to devote more time to his large interests in farming and stock raising.
Sada YaccoOn January 2, 1899 the pair arrived and met Yumindo Kushibuki, a businessman who had made his fortune building a Japanese tea garden in Atlantic City, New Jersey and bringing Japanese entertainment and goods to the United States.
Wallis SimpsonDuring the trip, Wallis's investments were wiped out in the Wall Street Crash, and her mother died penniless on 2 November 1929.
James MaybrickMaybrick's cotton trading business required him to travel regularly to the United States and in 1871 he settled in Norfolk, Virginia, to establish a branch office of his company.
Jimmy Lai Rising to the level of factory manager, Lai speculated his year-end bonus on Hong Kong stocks to raise enough cash to buy out the owners of a bankrupt garment factory, Comitex, in 1975 and began producing sweaters.
John Duthie (politician)About 1866 Dutbie moved to New Plymouth and started in business ; about two years later extending the operations to Wanganui, where he opened a branch and conducted a growing trade for many years.
Frank H. SobeyIn 1907 his father purchased a meat retailing business in town and became a butcher, peddling meat products door to door on a horse-drawn wagon.
Clive PalmerHis family moved to Queensland in 1963 Palmer is the owner of Mineralogy, a company which has 160 billion tonnes of iron ore reserves in the Pilbara Ranges, in remote Western Australia.
Stefan Ossowiecki In 1915, his father died and Ossowiecki inherited the family chemicals business, making him temporarily a wealthy man.
Josef BreitenbachIn 1932, after several unsuccessful years at the head of the family business -- during which period he was mainly engaged with perfecting his use of a camera -- Breitenbach opened his first photographic studio.
Andr? MalrauxHis father, a stockbroker, committed suicide in 1930 after the international crash of the stock market and onset of the Great Depression.
Nicholas F. SeebeckSeebeck was successful enough to be able to sell his business in 1884 and purchase a significant interest in the Hamilton Bank Note Engraving and Printing Co., whose main contract was for printing tickets for the New York City transportation system.
Martyn Lawrence BullardWhile in school, Bullard continued to buy and sell antiques and raised enough money to move to Los Angeles in 1994.
Kevin ShibilskiShibilski left banking in 2009 to focus on various businesses throughout the country that he owns with his wife Sue.
Washington Atlee BurpeeIn 1876, an 18-year-old Atlee started a mail-order chicken business out of the family home with $ 1,000 (equal to $ today) loaned to him by his mother and a partner.
Alfred LatourFrom 1940, Latour returned to oil painting that he had abandoned 20 years before and developed a chromatist lyricism he had inherited from Fauvism.
C. P. Krishnan NairIn 1950, he married Leela, the daughter of a handloom owner from Kannur, subsequently, he started helping his father-in-law in the latter's garment export business, eventually taking it over and developing export markets, becoming one of the pioneers of the Bleeding Madras fabric, which became much popular in the 1960s.
Tommy Burns (boxer)Although he was wealthy at the end of his boxing career, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression wiped out his fortune.
Robert R. YoungEarly in 1929 Raskob vehemently disagreed with Young's predictions of a stock market crash, and the two men parted company.
Jimmy SnyderHe invested money in oil drilling and coal mining, but when those ventures failed, Snyder moved to Las Vegas in 1956 and began a weekly pro-football betting line.
John Edward GrayGray was also interested in postage stamp s ; on 1 May 1840, the day the Penny Black first went on sale, he purchased several with the intent to save them, thus making him the world's first known stamp collector.
Catherine CooksonIn 1929, she moved south to run the laundry at Hastings Workhouse, saving every penny to buy a large Victorian house, and then taking in lodgers to supplement her income.
Frits LugtUpon the death of his father-in-law in 1931, his wife inherited a sizeable fortune, which enabled the couple to expand their collecting interests.
William D. Pawley In 1927, Pawley began a connection with Curtiss-Wright that would make him an extremely wealthy man.
Jean DubuffetIn 1924, doubting the value of art, he stopped painting and took over his father's business selling wine.
Donald Reid (politician born 1833) His eldest brother, Charles, established himself in national financial circles helping to found (in 1874) and running Standard Fire and Marine Insurance Company of New Zealand which rapidly established offices throughout Australia and New Zealand and in London.
Sara Leighton1963 saw Leighton establishing the company London Portrait's LTD in order to administer the increasing demand for her work.
Sindika DokoloIn 1995 he decided to return to then Zaire to join the large - in total 17 companies consisting family business - (banking, breeding, fishing, coffee exportation, real estate, consumer goods distributor, merchandise conveyance, printing, insurance, mining and car selling).
Roy DeMeo In the latter half of 1975, DeMeo became a silent partner in a peep show / prostitution establishment in New Jersey after the owner of the business became unable to pay his loansharking debts.
Anne Triola In 1953, Triola married successful businessman Ralph J. Quartaroli, president of Stanislaus Food Products Company, and decided to break away from show business as the couple moved to Modesto, California where his family owned a cannery.
Richard LenelIn the following years he attempted, together with his two eldest sons who remained in Germany, to hold on to his company, but the rigorous measures of 1938 forced him to sell his house and his company and flee to England, later to the USA.
Abraham BogardusWanting to retire in 1884, Bogardus advertised in the Philadelphia Photographer :'' Wishing to retire from the photographic business, I now offer my well-known establishment for sale, after thirty-eight years' continuous existence in this city.
Sudono SalimAs soldiers seized Dutch businesses following independence, his business absorbed many of their assets and gained a monopoly in the clove market, After moving to Jakarta in 1952, Salim expanded his trading business by establishing connections with other ethnic Chinese businessmen in Singapore and Hong Kong.
Newman Haynes ClantonAnother mill soon followed and both began operations in 1879, The Clanton Ranch grew into a successful enterprise for many reasons.
Floyd RobinsonAfter baseball, Robinson and his wife Sandra, whom he married in 1965, were also business partners, investing in real estate and apartment buildings and a small grocery store.
Denis PielLiving and working in New York in 2001, the aftermath of 9/11 and the dot com crash impacted on many of Piel's ventures and they retreated to Château du Padiès and sold New York several years later, making Padiès the center of all their operations, where they still live today with Padiès being developed as a model of sustainability.
Billa FlintIn 1829, unhappy with the sale of liquor at his father's hotel, he moved to Belleville and set up his own business there.
Charles PlimptonPlimpton's wife continued running Plimpton Engineering for the next ten years, but retired in 1959 after Bayko began losing its market share to new construction toys like Lego.
Mal MeningaMeninga left Canberra and returned to Queensland in 2005, opening several successful businesses, including a fruit and vegetable wholesale business in the Brisbane Markets, and several Strathfield Car Sound outlets.
John Sullivan DwightBrook Farm collapsed financially in 1847, but Dwight set up a cooperative house in Boston and began a career in musical journalism.
Caroline Rose FosterIn 1927 Caroline Foster inherited the farm, and preserved it as a working farm using the fram practices of her childhood.
Spencer W. KimballBy 1927 the business was strong enough to become independent, and after investing $ 150 of his own money in the business, Kimball began running it full-time in Safford, Arizona as the'' Kimball -- Greenhalgh Agency'', dealing in local insurance, real estate, debt collection, and bonds.
Georg ScholzHis Industrial Farmers of 1920 is an oil painting with collage that depicts a Bible-clutching farmer with money erupting from his forehead, seated next to his monstrous wife who cradles a piglet.