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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.
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 (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).
May 29, 2018 · James Buchanan Duke. 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.
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.
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 ...
James Buchanan Duke, industrialist, the youngest of the three children of Washington and Artelia Roney Duke, was born on his father's farm located a few miles north of Durham in what was then Orange County. He received some education in an improvised school near his home, attended an academy in Durham for a while, and was sent briefly to New ...
Jan 31, 2004 · James Buchanan Duke built an industrial empire, powered the Piedmont, and endowed a university. He was a big man with big ideas, and he invested heavily in them. Robert Durden, emeritus professor of history, talks about “Buck” Duke's life and ambitions in Bold Entrepreneur: A Life of James B. Duke. You have written four books on the Duke ...
The papers of James Buchanan Duke have been collected from various sources over time and span the years 1777 to 1999, although the bulk of the material dates from the 1890s to the mid-1930s. The collection is divided into 7 series: Correspondence, Business Papers, Legal Papers, Financial Papers, Estate Papers, Miscellaneous, and Pictures.
Apr 23, 2003 · DURHAM, N.C. -- James Buchanan Duke arrived in New York in 1884, a slim, clean-shaven young man with a Southern accent "as thick as butter." His assignment was to establish a branch of the family tobacco manufacturing business. He succeeded. By 1890, W. Duke Sons and Co. was the largest producer of cigarettes in America, and "Buck" Duke was on ...
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