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Brodie Duke (half-brother) James Buchanan Duke (December 23, 1856 – October 10, 1925) was an American tobacco and electric power industrialist best known for the introduction of modern cigarette manufacture and marketing, [1] and his involvement with Duke University. He was the founder of the American Tobacco Company in 1890.
James Buchanan Duke (born Dec. 23, 1856, Durham, N.C., U.S.—died Oct. 10, 1925, New York, N.Y.) was an American tobacco magnate and philanthropist. The son of Washington Duke , who had entered the tobacco business after the American Civil War , James entered the family business with his brother Benjamin (1855–1929).
View a timeline of James Buchanan Duke's life. James Buchanan Duke was born near Durham, North Carolina on December 23, 1856 to Washington Duke and his second wife, Artelia Roney Duke. James B. Duke received an intermittent education in local academies. Later he briefly attended the New Garden School in Greensboro, NC (now Guilford College) and ...
James Buchanan Duke 1856–1925. James B. Duke dies unexpectedly on October 10, 1925, after suffering from pernicious anemia, a disease for which there was no known cure at the time. He would have been 69 years old on December 23. In his will, he leaves the Endowment an additional $67 million. Photo courtesy of Duke University Archives.
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Apr 23, 2003 · Twenty-eight-year-old James Buchanan Duke '" 'Buck' only to his family and friends of long-standing '" had come to New York a year earlier to establish and then manage a branch factory of W. Duke Sons and Company, tobacco manufacturers based in Durham, North Carolina. Already richly experienced in the world of tobacco, the youngest of the Duke ...
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May 29, 2018 · James Buchanan Duke (1856-1925), American industrialist and philanthropist, was the first giant of finance to emerge in the post- Civil War South. James B. Duke was born on Dec. 23, 1856, on a small farm near Durham, N.C., the younger son of Washington Duke. Union troops during the Civil War so ravaged their farm that at war's end, when ...
James Buchanan Duke built two massive fortunes, the first in tobacco and the second in hydroelectric generation. With his wealth, he became one of the greatest philanthropists in the history of the Carolinas, perhaps best known today as the patron of Duke University. Born in December 1856 near Durham, North Carolina, Duke grew up on a small ...
