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George Pullman
George Mortimer Pullman was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town in Chicago for the workers who manufactured it. This ultimately led to the Pullman Strike due to the high rent prices charged for company housing and low wages paid by the Pullman Company. His Pullman Company also hired black men to staff the Pullman…
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business · American engineer and businessman (1831–1897) · inventor · entrepreneur · factory owner · also George Pullman, George Mortimer Pullman, Geo. M. Pullman, George Martimer Pullman, George M. Pulllman, George M. Pullman
Born 3 March 1831 · Died 19 October 1897 · Q362760
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2026· 2 entries
“She is the goddess of the dead. She comes to you smiling and kindly, and you know it is time to die.”
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2006).
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1987· 1 entry
Its remaining assets were absorbed by Bombardier
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1930· 1 entry
With Standard Steel Car Company to become Pullman-Standard, which built its last car for Amtrak in 1982
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1898· 2 entries
The Supreme Court of Illinois ordered the Pullman Company to divest itself of the town, which became a neighborhood of the city of Chicago
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The Supreme Court of Illinois forced the Pullman Company to divest ownership in the town, which was annexed to Chicago
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1897· 2 entries
Died 1897-10-19.
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Pullman died of a heart attack in Chicago, Illinois
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1894· 1 entry
When manufacturing demand fell off, Pullman cut jobs and wages and increased working hours in his plant to lower costs and keep profits, but he did not lower rents or prices in the company town
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1890· 1 entry
Wrote of Pullman's manufacturing complex, "Everything is done in order and with precision
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1887· 1 entry
Pullman designed and established the system of "vestibuled trains," with cars linked by covered gangways instead of open platforms
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1885· 1 entry
Richard Ely wrote in Harper's Weekly that the power exercised by Otto Von Bismarck (known as the unifier of modern Germany), was "utterly insignificant when compared with the ruling authority of the Pullman Palace Car Co
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1881· 1 entry
Pullman posted a newspaper notice that stated he had formed a syndicate to buy controlling stock in the Northern Pacific Railroad
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1880· 1 entry
Pullman bought 4,000 acres (16 km2), near Lake Calumet some 14 mi (23 km) south of Chicago, on the Illinois Central Railroad for $800,000
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1869· 1 entry
Pullman bought out the Detroit Car and Manufacturing Company
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1868· 1 entry
Launched the Delmonico, the world's first sleeping car devoted to fine cuisine
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1867· 1 entry
Pullman introduced his first "hotel on wheels," the President, a sleeper with an attached kitchen and dining car
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1861· 1 entry
Pullman contracted with the Ely and Smith partnership to raise the six storey high Tremont House
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1859· 1 entry
Pullman and his Albion-based business partner Charles Moore moved to Chicago to raise one such building, the Matteson House, a large brick hotel
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1856· 1 entry
Pullman won a contract with the State of New York to move 20 buildings out of the way of the widening canal
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1853· 1 entry
Lewis died, and George took over his business at the age of 22
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1845· 1 entry
So his father could help widen the canal
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1831· 2 entries
Born 1831-03-03.
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In Brocton, New York, the son of Emily Caroline (Minton) and carpenter James Lewis Pullman (known as Lewis)
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