Eiichi Shibusawa (1840 - 1931)

Multi-talented businessman. He developed several business  enterprises that established a groundwork for the future development of business and promoted the social welfare of Japan. Among his businesses were the Daiichi Kokuritsu Ginko Bank (now the Daiichi Kangyo Ginko Bank) and the Fukaya Brick Manufacturing Company. Shibusawa called for the “unity of morality and the economy,” […]

Henry Alden Sherwin (1842 - 1916)

Business Magnate. Founder of Sherwin-Williams paint company.  Family links:  Parents:  Alden Wheelock Sherwin (1816 – 1889)  Rachel Batchelder Sherwin (1818 – 1895)  Spouse:  Frances Mary Smith Sherwin (1843 – 1920)*  Children:  Belle Sherwin (1868 – 1955)*  Katherine Sherwin (1870 – 1873)*  William Alden Sherwin (1872 – 1897)*  Prudence Sherwin (1874 – 1938)* *Calculated relationship

Louis Michael Sherry (1856 - 1926)

Family Restauranteur and Chocolatier.He was married to Marie Bertha Grandjean Sherry.  Family links:  Spouse:  Marie Bertha Grandjean Sherry (1853 – 1941)* *Calculated relationship

John Graves Shedd (1850 - 1926)

Businessman, Philanthropist. He was the 2nd president and chairman of the board of Marshall Field & Company, an upscale department store in Chicago, Illinois, that would become its largest store and the largest wholesale and dry goods company in the world at that time. Born on a farm in Alstead, New Hampshire, he received his […]

Greg Shaw (1949 - 2004)

Greg Shaw was born in San Francisco, California. He began writing about rock and roll music as a young teenager. His first zines were Tolkien-related, but among them was also a mimeographed sheet called Mojo Navigator (full title, “Mojo-Navigator Rock and Roll News”). Founded in 1966 by David Harris, with Shaw’s assistance, Mojo Navigator is […]

Clay L. Shaw (1913 - 1974)

New Orleans businessman, a co-founder of the N.O. Trade Mart, who was accused by District Attorney Jim Garrison of being one of the masterminds of the JFK assassination.  After a trial, Shaw was acquitted of conspiracy-related charges in March 1969.  His trial was featured prominently in Oliver Stone’s “JFK,” in which Shaw was portrayed by […]

Walter Benona Sharp (1870 - 1912)

Business Magnate. Born in Tennessee, his mother died when he was eight and his father moved his family to Texas. He and business partner Howard Hughes Sr. Devoloped the Hughes Drill Bit and co-founded The Sharp-Hughes Tool Company. After his death his wife became dusgruntled with the way Howard Hughes Sr. was running the company […]

Samuel W. Sessions (1826 - 1902)

Founded the Cleveland Nut Co., which became one of the nation’s leading fastener companies, Lamson & Sessions.  Their family monument was installed at Riverside Cemetery in 1877 for $10,000 and is a local tourist attraction. (bio by: Joyce)

Harry Gordon Selfridge, Sr (1858 - 1947)

Businessman. American born, he founded the British department store “Selfridges”. His father owned a small dry-goods shop in Ripon, Wisconsin, but went away with the Union cavalry in the Civil War of 1861 to 1865, attaining rank of Major, and never returning to his family. In 1879, aged 21 he joined the retail firm of […]

Kenneth W. Self (1916 - 2003)

Business Magnate. A mechanic by trade, Kenneth Self started working in the maintenance shop of Consolidated Freightway’s Corporation in 1940. By 1947 CE founder Leland James promoted Ken Self to production manager in the Portland office. Design changes that Ken Self directed included the first 90 degree tilting cab, the first double trailer truck. A […]

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