1. George Armour was a Scottish American businessman and philanthropist known for his contributions to the global distribution process for commodities.
36 Facts About George Armour
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George Armour served as a director of several notable companies during his career.
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George Armour was born on 24 April 1812, in Campbeltown, Scotland, on the Mull of Kintyre.
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Subsequently, George Armour lived in Joliet and Lockport, Illinois, and entered the business of merchandising.
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Steel and George Armour built a section of the Illinois and Michigan Canal sometime between 1836 and 1848.
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George Armour was a contractor for 16 miles of road grading for the ROCK which started construction in 1851 and was completed by 1854.
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In 1854, George Armour Steel took over a warehouse and built another grain elevator just west of the Gibbs, Griffin and Company warehouse.
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George Armour operated grain elevators at the depot of the CBQ with a capacity of 850,000 bushels.
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At the Chicago Canal Convention of 1863, George Armour was a member of the CBT delegation.
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In 1856 George Armour was elected to the Board of Directors of the CBT.
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In 1857, along with Cyrus McCormick, who invented the reaper, and Chicago's first mayor, William B Ogden, Armour was a founder and, later, elected director of the Merchants' Loan and Trust Company.
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George Armour was probably one of the few shareholders that had actually laid track.
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George Armour had merely done his duty, he said, and it might interfere with the country's business if it were written up in the newspapers.
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George Armour was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and emigrated to Chicago when she was very young.
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The first George Armour home was on Michigan Avenue near Monroe Street.
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George Armour lost his house, his church, his children's school.
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George Armour lost civic projects he had dedicated much time to, including the YMCA, the Seaman's Bethel and Chicago Academy of Design.
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George Armour's body was returned to the US and he was buried at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.
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Also on that voyage a portrait of Barbara Allison George Armour was painted by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema in London in 1865.
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Also of note, George Armour's partner James H Dole had been very active with the Chicago Academy of Design, was a founder of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and supported the Art Institute until his death in 1902.
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The culmination of this participation is that George Armour was a founder and elected first President of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in 1879.
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George Armour was a trustee and an elder of the church.
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George Armour donated the tower which was completed in 1884 after George Armour's death.
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George Armour donated $500 toward the construction of the Willow Creek Presbyterian Church in Argyle, IL in 1877.
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George Armour was a founder and trustee of the YMCA of Chicago.
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George Armour was a founder and member of the Commercial Club of Chicago in 1878.
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George Armour was set upon by a crowd of poll-watching ruffians, kicked, beaten about the head, and dragged through the streets by the hair until his friends came to the rescue.
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George Armour was attacked, stabbed, and chased clear down to La Salle Street where he jumped onto a dangerously thin sheet of river ice to escape his pursuers.
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The only political position George Armour ever held was that of elector in the Electoral College for the Hayes ticket in 1876.
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Examples of web sites and books that erroneously indicate that George Armour was closely related to Philip Danforth Armour include the following:.
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In 1876, while George Armour was president of the CBT, membership in the CBT went from being "by invitation only" to being memberships or a "sear" that could be bought and sold.
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George Armour always built his warehouses at the junctions between the two modes of transport.
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George Armour was a devout Presbyterian and an elder of his church.
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George Armour was a significant contributor to the construction of the Willow Creek Church in Argyle IL where he had spent the summer of 1836 building he 14' x 14' log cabin.
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George Armour returned to Campbeltown in the 1880s and donated the funds to build a fountain.
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In helping create the Art Institute, the grain warehousing business and associated transportation, George Armour was part of creating the American heritages of the future, but he never forgot his own humble roots.