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Thomas Clark Durant (February 6, 1820 – October 5, 1885) was an American physician, businessman, and financier. He was vice-president of the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) in 1869 when it met with the Central Pacific railroad at Promontory Summit in Utah Territory. He created the financial structure that led to the Crédit Mobilier scandal.
On March 18, 1947, at 2:15 A.M. , William Crapo Durant, founder of General Motors and Chevrolet and the “leading bull” in the great stock-market boom and crash of the late 1920’s, died at his New York City apartment with his wife and nurse in attendance.
Dr. Thomas C. Durant ships family (Mrs. Heloise Timbrell Durant, William West Durant and Ella Durant) to England on the SS Great Eastern as the U.S. is on the brink of a civil war, and while he develops the Transcontinental Railroad. William (age 11) educated in England.
Oct 25, 2023 · Court records show Randolph Thomas Jr. pleaded guilty to killing another man on the same day that Emmanuel Durant Jr. was fatally shot.
Educated in medicine, Durant kept the honorific "Doctor" in front of his name but abandoned the pursuit for business, the only enterprise that could satiate his rapacious appetite for profit....
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.
Jun 10, 2021 · While Durant did think big, and take big risks, it was ultimately his ability to hire strong management that allowed him to properly grow General Motors. It is hard to sum up the career of Durant, in so few words, but first and foremost he was adept at growing his business infrastructure.
