Descents from business leaders
Thomas Russell Akin (founder of Laclede Steel Company):
Charles Beatty Alexander:
William Torrey Baird (co-founder of the Baird Rubber Trading Company):
Peter Ballantine (founder of P. Ballantine & Sons brewing company):
James William Cannon (founder of Cannon Mills Company):
John Logan Jones (founder of the Jones Store chain):
John Pritzlaff (co-founder of John Pritzlaff Hardware Company):
William Procter (co-founder of Procter & Gamble):
John Davison Rockefeller (founder of Standard Oil):
Frank J. Sensenbrenner (CEO of Kimberly-Clark):
Frederick Stanley Upton (co-founder of Whirlpool)