Business families

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 66. Chapters: Amadeo Barletta Barletta, Arison family, Ax:son Johnson family, Berenberg-Gossler-Seyler banking dynasty, Bhagyakul Roy family, Birla family, Bolurfrushan, Bronfman family, Curtis Bros. & Co, Curtis Grubb, Dallam family, Eczacibasi family, Edward Burd Grubb, Jr., Edward Burd Grubb, Sr., Fakhro Group, Frank Goldsmith, Furukawa Group, Gineste de Saurs, Grubb Family Iron Dynasty, Henry Bates Grubb, House of Medici, Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, Joel family, John and Benjamin Green, John and Richard Marriot, Kadoorie family, Kanoo, Koç family, Mendelssohn family, Molson family, Monneron family, Muthoot Family, Ofer Brothers Group, Panckoucke, Peter Grubb, Jr., Peter Grubb (mason), Reichmann family, Rothschild banking family of England, Sabanci family, Sahu Jain, Sainsbury family, Tawengwa, Thirteen Factories, Wallenberg family, Zaibatsu, Zobel de Ayala family. Excerpt: The Grubb Family Iron Dynasty was a succession of iron manufacturing enterprises owned and operated by Grubb family members for over 165 years, collectively one the largest Pennsylvania iron producers during the Industrial Revolution. In 1677, John Grubb came from Cornwall, U.K. and settled in Brandywine Hundred, Delaware where he established a tannery. About 1737, his youngest son, Peter Grubb entered into the iron business and discovered the rich Cornwall Iron Mines (Cornwall Banks) in Lebanon County, about 21 miles north of Lancaster. Peter and the next five generations of his descendants operated the business, first in the 18th century at Cornwall, Pennsylvania and then in the 19th century at other locations with headquarters at nearby Mount Hope in Lancaster County. The Grubb-owned operations that originated with the vast Cornwall fields of rich iron ore plus the Cornwall Iron Furnace and Hopewell Forges, evolved to include ownership, or close association with, at least eighteen iron production operations and several thousand acres of property in eastern Pennsylvania, becoming the leading iron manufacturers in Pennsylvania between 1840 and 1870. The history of the Grubb dynasty must mention Robert Coleman, who acquired most of the original Grubb properties between 1786 and 1803, primarily from Curtis Grubb's heirs, and became Pennsylvania's first millionaire. Coleman's operations were headquartered at Cornwall Furnace and they also continued through the 19th century under his heirs. Beginning in 1800, the heirs of Curtis' brother Peter Grubb, Jr. rebuilt their business on the minority interest they retained, primarily in the Cornwall Iron Mines, and operated for nearly 100 years out of Mount Hope. The Grubb and Coleman families were competitors, but also partners due to their shared interests in the ore fields. Both families' operations bowed to the advances of iron and steel technology in the latter part of the 19th century and were gradually sold between 1883