Rockefeller
http://americanhistory.unomaha.edu/module_display.php?mod_id=130&review=yes
Rockefeller- Standard Oil monopoly ruled by Supreme court to be
dissolved in 1911
Carnegie PRIMARY SOURCE
http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1889carnegie.asp
The problem of our age is the administration of wealth, so that the
ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in
harmonious relationship- Andrew Carnegie in his book The Gospel of Wealth
Vanderbilt
http://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/cornelius-vanderbilt/
Vanderbilt, instead of building new railroads, bought existing ones
and combined them to make one large railroad force and charged people
to use it.
Vanderbilt
http://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/78vanderbilt/78facts1.htm
Vanderbilt first started with ships, but then saw the need for rail
and switched his businesses
Carnegie
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Andrew-Carnegie
Carnegie used vertical integration by buying coke fields, iron or,
ships and railways
Rockefeller
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/rockefellers-john/
Held 9535 of 35000 shares of Standard Oil Trust
Rockefeller PRIMARY SOURCE
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/rockefellers-donations/
and so I thought I would write this letter to you, knowing that
you had enough and to spare"
-John R. Campbell
Vanderbilt
http://www.jstor.org/stable/23701199?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=cornelius&searchText=vanderbilt&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dcornelius%2Bvanderbilt%26amp%3Bacc%3Don%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff%26amp%3Bgroup%3Dnone&seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents
Vanderbilt was seen as a tough and rugged man, not afraid to use
violence to intimidate his oppositions and was not afraid of showing
uncultured behavior
Carnegie PRIMARY
http://economicsprojectforgovernment.weebly.com/uploads/2/0/2/7/20277683/661994263.jpg
This cartoon shows carnegie's philanthropic qualities, as he gave
lots of $$ to the less fortunate
Morgan
https://books.google.com/books?id=a6F-AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq=j.p.+morgan+born+april+1837+junius&source=bl&ots=XJlQKCZrIa&sig=XOtB2K7GpxCeR1ici5crVg8X1RU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CFoQ6AEwCWoVChMI0YndrNaIyAIVxAiSCh2LrQ-e#v=onepage&q=j.p.%20morgan%20born%20april%201837%20junius&f=false
Morgan did not like competition and worked to form huge businesses
and trusts
Morgan
https://books.google.com/books?id=hgJoKA9oSAQC&pg=PP4&lpg=PP4&dq=j.p.+morgan+mother+juliet&source=bl&ots=X0cWWK-9g1&sig=Oef60xawNIbq-h_Q5NFfRxoeSCA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBWoVChMIwfXa99aIyAIVileSCh2KnABh#v=onepage&q=j.p.%20morgan%20mother%20juliet&f=false
The U.S. feared another Morgan so much that it is what really started
the Federal reserve system so they could regulate money and credit,
and make sure it is safe and "fair
Vanderbilt
http://narhf.org/cornelius-vanderbilt-2/
By 1864- $40,000,000
had over 100 steamboats and this was before he even started with railroads
Sherman anti-trust PRIMARY
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=51
The Sherman antitrust act was the first act to go against monopolies
and attempted to dissolve them
Morgan
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/j-p-morgan-as-cutthroat-capitalist-74972230/?no-ist
People viewed him as a robber baron, and the portrait of him
seemingly holding a a dagger (actually the arm of the chair) did not
help to falsify this claim
Rockefeller
https://www.e-education.psu.edu/egee120/node/226
Rockefeller retired shortly before age 60, and took up activities
such as golf, philanthropy, church, and the management of his wealth
Vanderbilt PRIMARY
http://archives.dickinson.edu/node/6219/zoomify
This paper has in it Cornelius Vanderbilt's will, signed by the clerk
who controls wills and such