Business

// Welcome to the Business Page

  • John Jacob Astor, financier. – W.M. Holland Lodge No.8 (1798)
  • Lloyd Balfour – Jewelry
  • Lawrence Bell- Bell Aircraft Corp.
  • Walter P. Chrysler, founder Chrysler Motors
  • Andre Citroen, founder Citroen Motor Car Co.
  • Willian H. Dow. – Dow Chemical Co.
  • Edwin L Drake- American Pioneer of the Oil industry
  • Eberhard Faber – Head of the Eberhard Fabor Pencil Company
  • Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company
  • King C. Gillett, Gillett Razor Co.
  • Charles C. Hilton – American Hotelier
  • John H. Johnson, publisher Ebony and Jet Magazines
  • Sir Thomas Lipton – Founder Lipton Tea Company
  • Louis B. Mayer – Film producer who merged to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • Ransom E. Olds, American automobile pioneer
  • J.C. Penny, department store founder
  • Fredrick Maytag, Maytag appliances
  • George Jacob Mecherle, founder, State Farm Insurance
  • John Molson, founder Molson Breweries
  • George Pullman – Built first sleeping car on train.
  • Col. Harland Sanders, Kentucky Fried Chicken – Henryville Masonic Lodge No. 651, Henryville, Indiana
  • Morris Sachs, Sachs 5th Ave.
  • David Sarnoff – Father of T.V. (RCA)
  • John W. Teets. – Chairman and Presiden of Dial Corporation
  • Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy’s Restaurants – 33o degree Mason, conferred in 1995.
  • Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild – Initiated Oct. 24, 1802: Emulation Lodge No. 12, London