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