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Jan 12, 2013 · On September 16, 1908, Durant incorporated General Motors of New Jersey (GM) with a capital investment of $2,000. Within 12 days the company issued stocks that generated over $12,000,000 in cash. General Motors then purchased Buick with stock. Six weeks later, GM acquired the Olds Corporation of Lansing, Michigan.
May 11, 2018 · The American Thomas Clark Durant (1820-1885), an executive of the Union Pacific Railroad, was a major force behind the first transcontinental railroad. Thomas C. Durant was born in Lee, Mass., on Feb. 6, 1820, the son of well-to-do parents. Although he graduated from Albany Medical College, he left medicine for his uncle's firm, which exported ...
Feb 6, 2020 · Doc Durant of Hell on Wheels. 2/6/2020. Dr. T.C. Durant. Source: Wikimedia. Doctor Thomas C. Durant (Doc Durant), one of the men who forged the Transcontinental Railroad in the 1860s, is a colorful historical figure. Newspaper accounts and diaries left behind by men who knew him describe him as ferocious looking, tall, dark, and patrician.
Nov 13, 2015 · Consult the history for the facts. Colm Meaney plays Thomas Durant on the AMC show “Hell on Wheels”. He was born in 1820, the son of a prosperous Massachusetts merchant – also at odds with the television show’s portrayal of him as someone who had to grovel for sustenance as a child. At 20 years old, he graduated from Albany Medical ...
Thomas C. Durant (1820–1885) was perhaps the most colorful and least liked of all the men involved in building the transcontinental railroad. Durant had been educated in medicine—and was often called the Doctor or "Doc"—but he made his fortune as a prodigious schemer. His first big score had been smuggling contraband cotton from the ...
Feb 6, 2024 · William Crapo Durant was born on December 9, 1861 in Boston, to William Clark Durant and Rebecca Folger Crapo. His mother was the daughter of Michigan governor Henry H. Crapo. Durant was quite young when his parents divorced. His father had gone bankrupt by then. Thus, Durant moved to Flint, Michigan, along with his mother.
Jun 27, 2018 · The American industrialist William Crapo Durant (1861-1947) was the founder of General Motors, an automobile manufacturing company. William C. Durant was born in Boston, Mass., on Dec. 8, 1861. He grew up in Flint, Mich., where he became a leading carriage manufacturer. In 1886 he organized the Durant-Dort Company and helped to make Flint the ...
