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  1. Family tree of James Buchanan DUKE. Industrialist, Businessman. Born James Buchanan DUKE. U.S. tobacco and electric power industrialist best known for the introduction of modern cigarette manufacture and marketing. Born on December 23, 1856 in Durham, North Carolina, USA , United States.

  2. Jul 14, 2022 · Duke University Chapel, Durham, Durham County, North Carolina, USA. Genealogy for James Buchanan Duke (1856 - 1925) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.

    • North Carolina
    • October 10, 1925
    • December 23, 1856
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  4. Nov 21, 2020 · Compare DNA and explore genealogy for Buck Duke born 1856 Orange County, North Carolina, USA died 1925 New York, New York, USA including ancestors + children + 3 photos + Y-chromosome DNA + more in the free family tree community.

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    • December 23, 1856
    • Nanaline Lee (Holt) Duke
    • October 10, 1925
  5. James Buchanan Duke : Family tree by Tim DOWLING (tdowling) - Geneanet. Born December 23, 1856 - Orange Co., NC. Deceased October 10, 1925 - Durham Co., NC,aged 68 years old. Tobacco Magnate. 1 file available. Parents. George Washington Duke 1820-1905. Artelia Roney 1829-1858. Spouses, children and grandchildren.

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    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 the Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie, New ...

    At the age of twenty-eight, Buck, as he was called, opened a branch of the family's factory in New York City, which within five years was furnishing half the country's total production of cigarettes. After a \"tobacco war\" among the five principal manufacturers, Duke emerged as the president of the American Tobacco Company, which within a decade b...

    Duke's older brother, Benjamin Newton, had launched the family into the textile business as early as 1892. As their textile interests developed, the need for economical water power led the Dukes into the hydroelectric generating business. In 1905, they founded the Southern Power Company, now known as Duke Power, one of the companies making up Duke ...

    Lifelong Methodists, the two brothers practiced the kind of financial stewardship encouraged by their church and instilled in them by their father. Ardent Republicans and sympathetic to the downtrodden, the Dukes, individually and collectively, gave to a number of causes. In December, 1924, James B., who was by far the wealthiest member of the fami...

    After a brief marriage that ended in divorce, James B. Duke married a widow from Atlanta, Nanaline Holt Inman, in 1907. One daughter, Doris, was born to the couple. James B. Duke died in New York City on October 10, 1925, and is interred with his father and brother in the Memorial Chapel on the campus of Duke University.

  6. May 13, 2024 · James Buchanan Duke (1856-1925): Biographical article about James B. Duke. Collection guide for James Buchanan Duke Papers, 1777-1990 and undated. Doris Duke (1912-1993): Timeline of Doris Duke's life.

  7. James Buchanan (J.B.) Duke (1856-1925) was known for his business acumen, especially in national and international tobacco industries and hydroelectric power. He was married twice, first to Lillian McCredy, who he divorced in 1906 and then Nanaline Holt Inman, who was his spouse from 1907 until his death in 1925.

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