Franklin Augustus “Frank” Seiberling (1859 - 1955)

Businessman. He founded Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in 1898 and The Seiberling Rubber Co. later on. Also known for his beautiful Akron estate “Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens”, which was built from 1912 to 1916 and is open to the public today.  Family links:  Parents:  John Frederick Seiberling (1834 – 1903)  Catherine Lucinda Miller […]

Miles Ainscough Seed (1843 - 1913)

Manufacturer. Born in Preston, England, Seed became interested in photography and studied the sciences and continued to do research in physics, astronomy and chemistry and to experiment particularly with different processes for making and developing photographic plates. Believing that better opportunities were to be found in American for applying the results of his experiments, he […]

Mary Wiseman See (1854 - 1939)

Candy Maker. Born Mary Wiseman on Howe Island in Ontario, Canada, she developed her chocolate candy recipes while helping run her husband’s hotel on nearby Tremont Island. Following her husband’s death in 1919, she moved with her son Charles to California and settled in Los Angeles. Inspired by his mother’s candy, Charles opened the first […]

Charles Alexander See (1882 - 1949)

Founder of See’s Famous Candies (Los Angeles). The candy boxes bear his mother’s picture. (bio by: A.J. Marik)  Family links:  Parents:  Charles Alexander See (1848 – 1919)  Mary Wiseman See (1854 – 1939)  Spouse:  Florence MacLean Wilson See (1885 – 1956)*  Children:  Laurance Alexander See (1912 – 1969)*  Margaret MacLean See Nunez (1913 – 1961)* […]

Richard Warren Sears (1863 - 1914)

Businessman. He was the founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company, one of the the world’s most successful department store chains. While working as a train station agent in Minnesota, he accepted delivery of a shipment of watches that had been refused by the intended recipient. He was able to sell the watches quickly at a […]

George John Seabury (1844 - 1909)

Scientist, Businessman. He served during the Civil War as a Private in Company C, 12th New York Volunteer Infantry. He founded the Seabury and Johnson Pharmaceutical Company in 1885, which initially manufactured medical plasters and surgical dressings.

Charles E. Scripps (1920 - 2007)

Media Mogul. He was known as the newspaperman’s newspaperman. He was the grandson of E.W. Scripps who founded in 1878, the newspaper that grew into the Cincinnati based media enterprise, The E.W. Scripps Company. As board chairman from 1953 to 1994, he presided over the company’s growth as a newspaper publisher into other forms of […]

George Whitfield Scranton (1811 - 1861)

Industrialist,  US Congressman. One of the preeminent metal manufacturers of the 19th Century.  Born in Madison,  Connecticut,  he left Lee’s Academy at age 17 and moved to New Jersey,  where he rose from humble teamster to wealthy merchant in little more than a decade.  In 1839 he and his brother Selden ventured into iron production […]

George Washington Scott (1829 - 1903)

Educator. He was the founder and main benefactor of the school that eventually became Agnes Scott College (first known as the Decatur Female Seminary in 1887). He was a Decatur industrialist who in 1890 donated land, equipment, the first building, and money for a permanent endowment to the school. In 1906 it was renamed in […]

Edward Irvin Scott (1846 - 1931)

Business Magnate. Founder and President of the Scott Paper Company. The company became the leading producer of bathroom tissue by 1890. Today, Scott Paper Company is part of Kimberly-Clark Corporation and the Scott products are available in virtually every city in the United States. (bio by: Mary Harrell-Sesniak)  Family links:  Spouse:  Sarah Frances Hoyt Scott […]

Clarence Scott (1848 - 1970)

Businessman. With his brothers Thomas Seymour Scott and Edward Irwin Scott, he formed a paper commission company. However, in the 1870s the economy was weak, forcing Clarence and Irwin to borrow $2,000 from Irvin’s in-laws, the Rev. Zerah T. and Sarah Maria Foote Hoyt in 879. They aded this to the original capital stock of […]

Ignaz Schwinn (1860 - 1948)

Bicycle Baron. He was born in Hardheim, Germany. As a teenager he began working for bicycle maker Heinrich Kleyer. His work impressed Kleyer and soon he was promoted to designer and manager of his factory. In 1891 he immigrated to Chicago, Illinois and four years later he, along with Adolph Arnold, founded Adolf-Schwinn and Company. […]

Frederick Augustus Otto Schwarz (1836 - 1911)

Businessman. He founded the “F.A.O. Schwarz” toy store.  Family links:  Spouse:  Caroline Schwarz (1841 – 1904)*  Children:  Ida T.L. Schwarz (1864 – 1942)*  George Frederick Schwarz (1868 – 1931)*  Emily Schwarz (1870 – 1958)*  Herbert F. Schwarz (1883 – 1960)* *Calculated relationship

Les Schwab (1917 - 2007)

Businessman. Les Schwab moved with his family to Minnesota in 1919, and returned to Central Oregon in 1929. Orphaned at age 15, and schooled in a railroad boxcar in a Central Oregon logging camp, he went to work as a teenager delivering the Oregon Journal newspaper. He eventually took over all nine routes in Bend. […]

Charles Michael Schwab (1862 - 1939)

Industrialist. Born in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania, to John Anthony Schwab and his wife Pauline Farabaugh, Charles Schwab early came to the attention of industrial baron Andrew Carnegie. Schwab rose to the presidency of Carnegie Steel by 1897, and became first president of the newly-organized United States Steel in 1901. He resigned the presidency two years later […]

Bernard Joseph Schwab (1909 - 2003)

One of four brothers who founded the legendary Schwabs’s pharmacy on Sunset Boulevard. The Schwab brothers, in 1932, bought a failing drugstore and attached their name to it. The brothers began catering to Hollywood actors, writers and other film industry workers. The brothers opened charge accounts and cashed checks for actors before the became stars. […]

John Schulte, Sr (1970 - 1970)

John Schulte Sr., a German immi- grant whose life story is the Ameri- can Dream — he stepped off the boat a penniless laborer and be- came a wealthy soap manufacturer.John Schulte built Schulte Man- sion in 1875. In its slim, 1974 guide to Detroit’s historic neighbor- hoods, the city calls special atten- tion to […]

Peter Schoenhofen (1827 - 1893)

Businessman. Born in Prussia, he immigrated to Chicago, Illinois, in the 1850s and started working in the brewing trade. In 1861, he formed a partnership with Matheus Gottfried, opened a brewery and together they made about 600 barrels of lager beer a year. Schoenhofen bought out his partner in 1867, the company became the Peter […]

Nicklaus Schnieder (1970 - 1970)

Nicklaus Schnieder and James Held were the two founders of Dutchtown, Missouri and the founders of the German Evangelical Church which is now a national landmark in Dutchtown. They settled the town in 1835 and founded the church the next year. At one time Dutchtown was a thriving little community, but eventually shriveled up to […]

Frederick D. Schnell (1970 - 1970)

Schnell was associated with the Hyde Park Brewery Company for 38 years, serving as sales manager & vice president. (bio by: Connie Nisinger) Cause of death: Heart disease

John Metz “J.M.” Schneider (1859 - 1942)

Businessman, Entrepreneur. He and his wife, Helena, were the founders of Schneider Foods Ltd.  A native of Berlin (later Kitchener), Ontario, he was working as a butcher in 1890 when he came up with the idea of creating his own meat business. The company which specialized in wieners, luncheon meat, bacon, ham, grocery products, specialty […]

Eugène Schneider (1805 - 1875)

Industrialist.

George Joseph Schmitt (1866 - 1931)

Chicago Business Magnate. He was partners with, and is buried next to, Otis Ward Hinkley.  Family links:  Spouse:  Charlotte W. Trayer Schmitt (1866 – 1944)*  Children:  Victor Trayer Schmitt (1897 – 1936)* *Calculated relationship

Jacob Schmidt (1846 - 1910)

Businessman. Born in Bavaria, Germany, he arrived in America at the age of 20 and after working at several breweries for five years, he settled in St. Paul, Minnesota. In St. Paul, he was the Brewmaster for the Theodore Hamm’s Brewing Company, when he left this position in 1900, to become owner and founder of […]

Joseph Schlitz (1831 - 1875)

Businessman, Beer magnate. Joseph Schlitz propelled the tiny Krug brewery of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, into the giant Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. Born in Mainz, Rheinhessen, Germany, he had a fair education with a four-year course in bookkeeping and had already acquired some practical business experience when he arrived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1850. There he landed […]

Leon Schlesinger (1884 - 1949)

Motion Picture Producer. The man behind Warner Bros. cartoons of the 1930s and 1940s, Leon Schlesinger oversaw the creation of such iconic characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd. Schlesinger was born in Philadelphia. He started out in show business as a theatre usher and worked his way up to head […]

Joseph Michael Schenck (1878 - 1961)

Motion Pictures Executive. He founded Twentieth Century Pictures with Darryl F. Zanuck in 1932, which eventually became 20th Century Fox. The chairman of United Artists, he created its theater chain.  Family links:  Spouse:  Norma Talmadge (1895 – 1957)* *Calculated relationship

Herman Adolph Schalk, Sr (1833 - 1908)

Businessman. He established in 1841 with his father Johann Nepomuk Schalk and brothers Adolph and Oscar the Schalk Brothers Brewery of Newark, New Jersey, the first lager beer brewery in America. The success of the brewery grew exponentially amassing a fortune for him and his family. His immigrant roots soon began to firmly settle into […]

Rudolph Schaefer (1863 - 1923)

Businessman.  He was the son of Maximilian Schaefer, and at one time was the president of F&M Schaefer Brewing Co.  Max and his brother Frederick were the ones who founded the F&M Schaefer Brewing Co in 1848.  Family links:  Spouse:  Frederica Vilette Beck Schaefer (1864 – 1931)* *Calculated relationship

Maximilian Schaefer (1970 - 1904)

Beer Magnate. In 1839 he emigrated to the United States, carrying with him the recipe for lager, a popular brew in Germany that was then unknown in America. He joined his brother Frederick in the employ of a local brewer, and in 1842 the Schaefer brothers bought out the owner, establishing F & M Schaefer […]