About: Alexander Turney Stewart

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Alexander Turney Stewart (October 12, 1803 – April 10, 1876) was an American entrepreneur who moved to New York and made his multimillion-dollar fortune in the most extensive and lucrative dry goods store in the world. Stewart was born in Lisburn, Ulster, Ireland, and abandoned his original aspirations of becoming a Presbyterian minister to go to New York City in 1823. He spent a short time teaching before returning to Ireland to receive the money his grandfather had left him, purchase some Belfast linens and laces, and return to New York to open a store.

thumbnail
Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Alexander Turney Stewart (October 12, 1803 – April 10, 1876) was an American entrepreneur who moved to New York and made his multimillion-dollar fortune in the most extensive and lucrative dry goods store in the world. Stewart was born in Lisburn, Ulster, Ireland, and abandoned his original aspirations of becoming a Presbyterian minister to go to New York City in 1823. He spent a short time teaching before returning to Ireland to receive the money his grandfather had left him, purchase some Belfast linens and laces, and return to New York to open a store. Stewart had extraordinary skill in business, and by 1848 he had built a large marble-fronted store on Broadway between Chambers Street and Reade Street, which was devoted to the wholesale branch of his business. In 1862 he built a new store covering an entire city block between Broadway and Fourth Avenue and between 9th and 10th streets. It was eight stories tall and attracted the wonder and business of upscale New York. Trainloads of wealthy customers from outlying cities came to shop. Stewart made most of his money through wholesaling and especially New York City real estate. He opened branches of the company in other parts of the world and owned several mills and factories. He had an annual income of US$1,843,637 in 1863 (equivalent to $31.2 million in 2020). His business success is estimated to have made him one of the twenty wealthiest people in history as of 2007, with a fortune equivalent to approximately US$90 billion in 2012. (en)
  • Alexander Turney STEWART (12-an de oktobro 1803, Lisburn, Irlando – 10-an de aprilo 1876) estis irland-devena usonano, kreinto de la unua vendeja magazinego en Usono. Stewart elmigris en Usonon en aĝo de 15 jaroj, kie li instruis antikvan histoorion en privata lernejo. Li kelkfoje hejmenvizitis, de kie li kunportis punton kaj merceron. Li baldaŭ rimarkis, ke tio pli profitdona ol la instruado. Li malfermis en 1823 magazenon en la Broadway, kiu atentokaptiĝis ĉar Stewart estis treege atentema al la aĉetantoj. Lia baza principo estis, ke oni devas kapti ĉiun aĉetanton. Dumtempe li estis tre malatentema al la dungitoj. Li malfermis pli kaj pli da vendejojn, dividis la magazenon je sekcioj (tuta nova metodo) kaj elpensis la montrofenestrojn por allogi la aĉetantojn. Li konstruigis ĝis 1848 sian unuan magazenegon. Kiel plej riĉa persono de Novjorko, li ekkonstruigis en 1869 sur Long Island. Lian kadavron oni ŝtelis tri semajnojn post la entombigo, la vidvino devis pagi 25.000 USD por rericevi ĝin. (eo)
  • Alexander Turney Stewart (12 octobre 1803 à Lisburn - 10 avril 1876 à New York) est un entrepreneur irlandais qui a fait la plus grande fortune dans le commerce de détail. Il distribue régulièrement des pots-de-vin à des politiciens pour obtenir des contrats à son avantage. Il est considéré comme l'un des hommes les plus riches de l'histoire, avec une fortune équivalente à 90 milliards de dollars de 2012. En 1863, il avait un revenu annuel de 1 843 637 dollars. (fr)
dbo:birthDate
  • 1803-10-12 (xsd:date)
dbo:birthName
  • Alexander Turney Stewart (en)
dbo:birthPlace
dbo:birthYear
  • 1803-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:deathDate
  • 1876-04-10 (xsd:date)
dbo:deathPlace
dbo:deathYear
  • 1876-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:education
dbo:party
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 928041 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 25848 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1123660570 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:birthDate
  • 1803-10-12 (xsd:date)
dbp:birthName
  • Alexander Turney Stewart (en)
dbp:birthPlace
  • Lisburn, Ulster, Ireland (en)
dbp:deathDate
  • 1876-04-10 (xsd:date)
dbp:deathPlace
dbp:education
dbp:name
  • Alexander Stewart (en)
dbp:party
dbp:spouse
  • 1823-10-16 (xsd:date)
  • (en)
  • Cornelia Mitchell Clinch (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
schema:sameAs
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Alexander Turney Stewart (12 octobre 1803 à Lisburn - 10 avril 1876 à New York) est un entrepreneur irlandais qui a fait la plus grande fortune dans le commerce de détail. Il distribue régulièrement des pots-de-vin à des politiciens pour obtenir des contrats à son avantage. Il est considéré comme l'un des hommes les plus riches de l'histoire, avec une fortune équivalente à 90 milliards de dollars de 2012. En 1863, il avait un revenu annuel de 1 843 637 dollars. (fr)
  • Alexander Turney Stewart (October 12, 1803 – April 10, 1876) was an American entrepreneur who moved to New York and made his multimillion-dollar fortune in the most extensive and lucrative dry goods store in the world. Stewart was born in Lisburn, Ulster, Ireland, and abandoned his original aspirations of becoming a Presbyterian minister to go to New York City in 1823. He spent a short time teaching before returning to Ireland to receive the money his grandfather had left him, purchase some Belfast linens and laces, and return to New York to open a store. (en)
  • Alexander Turney STEWART (12-an de oktobro 1803, Lisburn, Irlando – 10-an de aprilo 1876) estis irland-devena usonano, kreinto de la unua vendeja magazinego en Usono. Stewart elmigris en Usonon en aĝo de 15 jaroj, kie li instruis antikvan histoorion en privata lernejo. Li kelkfoje hejmenvizitis, de kie li kunportis punton kaj merceron. Li baldaŭ rimarkis, ke tio pli profitdona ol la instruado. Li malfermis en 1823 magazenon en la Broadway, kiu atentokaptiĝis ĉar Stewart estis treege atentema al la aĉetantoj. Lia baza principo estis, ke oni devas kapti ĉiun aĉetanton. Dumtempe li estis tre malatentema al la dungitoj. (eo)
rdfs:label
  • Alexander Turney Stewart (en)
  • Alexander Turney Stewart (eo)
  • Alexander Turney Stewart (fr)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Alexander Stewart (en)
is dbo:founder of
is dbo:namedAfter of
is dbo:relation of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:founder of
is dbp:namedFor of
is dbp:relations of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License