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In the 1950s Hearst Sr secured a seat on the corporation's board for his son, George Randolph Hearst Jr. Personal life, death and legacy. Hearst was married several times. He married and divorced Blanche Wilbur, Lora Velie, and Sally Alvarez Kirkham. Another marriage, to actress Sandra Rambeau, was annulled.
William Randolph Hearst died in 1951 at age 88. Hearst and his wife, Millicent, had five sons: George, William Randolph Jr., John, and the twins Randolph and David. The brothers worked for the ...
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May 6, 2019 · George Hearst’s audacious entrepreneurship in mining in the West from 1850 to his death in 1891 funded the local development of California’s gold country (above) and South Dakota’s Black Hills (above), as well as the national economy, through the sale of shares of his company on the New York Stock Exchange. — Courtesy True West Archives
George Hearst George Hearst was born and raised in Franklin County, Missouri in 1820. Growing up he received very little in the way of formal education but he did learn a lot about the so-called “lay of the land,” particularly in regards to mining. In fact, legend has it that local Indians referred to him as the “boy that the earth talk ...
Jan 16, 2021 · In the 1950s Hearst Sr secured a seat on the corporation's board for his son, George Randolph Hearst Jr. Personal life, death and legacy. Hearst was married several times. He married and divorced Blanche Wilbur, Lora Velie, and Sally Alvarez Kirkham.[3] Another marriage, to actress Sandra Rambeau, was annulled.[3]
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- April 23, 1904
- Sally Alvarez Kirkham, Lorna Velie
- January 26, 1972
Family & Personal Life. At the age of 42, George Hearst married Phoebe Apperson, who was 22 years younger than him, on June 15, 1862. Phoebe went on to become a noted philanthropist, feminist and suffragist. Their son, William Randolph Hearst, was born on April 29, 1863, after the couple had moved to San Francisco.
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George Hearst (September 3, 1820 – February 28, 1891) was an American businessman, politician, and patriarch of the Hearst business dynasty. After growing up on a small farm in Missouri, he founded many mining operations, and is known for developing and expanding the Homestake Mine in the late 1870s in the Black Hills of South Dakota .
