Thomas Key Niedringhaus (1860 - 1970)

Vice-president & manager of the St. Louis Stamping Company until it merged with the National Enameling & Stamping Company. He was the vice-president & director of this firm as well as vice-president of the Commonwealth Steel Company & secretary of the Granite Realty & Investment Company. He was nominated for U.S. Senator in 1905, but […]

Henry Nicolaus (1850 - 1938)

Henry was the son-in-law of brewer Louis Schlossstein of the Old Uhrig Brewery. After an apprenticeship in Bavaria, at the age of 18, Henry came to St. Louis in 1867 & worked at the Becker & Hoppe malt house, St. Louis’ largest. He later worked at the National Brewery & Anheuser-Busch before returning to Europe […]

William Nickerson, Jr (1879 - 1945)

Businessman, Founder. Nickerson was a pioneer and entrepreneur of Black business in Los Angeles. He was the founder and first president of Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company, which was the first African American life insurance company on the west coast and the largest African American life insurance company in the state of California. He […]

Nezu Kaichiro (1860 - 1940)

Business and politician. Nezu founded the Teikoku Oil Company. Born into an established merchant family in Yamanashi, Yamanashi Prefecture, he moved to Tokyo in 1897, and became independently wealthy through stock investments. Nezu was elected as a member of the House of Representatives in the National Diet in 1904 and won three subsequent reelections. He […]

Samuel I. Newhouse (1895 - 1979)

Businessman, Publisher. Born Solomon Isadore Neuhaus in Manhattan, New York, he was a broadcasting businessman, magazine and newspaper publisher. He was best known as the founder of Advance Publications, which went on to be one of the world’s largest media and communications companies. His interest included owning more then 30 newspapers, as well as numerous […]

Henry Mayo Newhall (1825 - 1882)

Western Pioneer. He was businessman whose extensive land holdings became the California communities of Newhall, Saugus, Santa Clarita and Valencia. In 1850, he came to California to search for gold but when he arrived many of the good mining sites had already been claimed. Settling in San Francisco, he opened the H.M. Newhall & Company, […]

John R. Newberry (1970 - 1933)

Businessman. A pioneer Los Angeles grocer, he founded J.R. Newberry and Company in 1898, one of the first chain grocery stores in Los Angeles. He built Newberry’s into a chain of 60 markets. (bio by: Scott G)  Family links:  Spouse:  Clara Ramsey Newberry (1851 – 1933)* *Calculated relationship

Walter Neurath (1970 - 1970)

Founder of Thames and Hudson publishers in 1949.

J.B. Nethercutt (1913 - 2004)

Cosmetics Manufacturer and Car Collector. He co-founded Merle Norman Cosmetics, producing cosmetics for sale in 1931. Respected in the beauty industry as an expert on cosmetic chemistry, he created a number of his firm’s most popular products, including blush rouge, perfume and lipsticks. He is perhaps better known for using his wealth to assemble one […]

Henri Nestlé-Ehmant (1814 - 1890)

Business Magnate. Founder of Nestlé S.A., the world’s biggest food and beverage company, as well as one of the main creators of milk chocolate. He had sold his company by the end of 1874 and moved with his wife into Villa Nestlé, where they helped people with small loans and publicly contributed towards improving the […]

Carrie Marcus Neiman (1883 - 1953)

Businesswoman. Co-founder of Neiman-Marcus department stores, sister of Herbert Marcus. She encouraged the establishment of weekly fashion shows, fall fashion expositions, and, beginning in 1938, the annual Neiman Marcus Awards, given to designers for distinguished service in the field of fashion. She died of pleurisy at her home after an extended illness.  Family links:  Parents: […]

Morden Neilson (1879 - 1947)

Businessman. Born in Brockville, Ontario, he inherited the William Neilson Company upon his father’s death in 1915. He had grown with the company, through hand churning the ice cream to being general manager. Upon graining control of the operations, he continued to expand the company. Eskimo Pies, a popular ice cream treat were introduced in […]

Josef Neckermann (1912 - 1992)

He was the founder and owner of the very successful German mail order company Neckermann AG and also an accomplished and successful horseman and founder of the “Deutsche Sporthilfe” (German Sport Support).

Tomiro Nagase (1970 - 1970)

Founder of the Kao Soap company. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Anthony Muto (1934 - 2015)

American Fashion Designer. Muto was a fashion designer who dressed three American first ladies; Lady Bird Johnson, Rosalynn Carter and Barbara Bush. Born into a sewing family, his mother was a seamstress and his grandfather was a tailor. Confined to bed with rheumatic fever as a child, he passed the time sketching. After studying art […]

John Murray (1970 - 1843)

Businessman. Son of John Murray in Fleet Street. His father died when he was fifteen and the firm was largely run by his father’s partner, Samuel Highley. In 1803 John Murray dissolved that partnership and launched into literary speculation which earned him the name given him by Lord Byron, “the Anak of publishers.” He was […]

Ricardo Muñoz Suay (1917 - 1997)

Producer, Screenwriter. Born in Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain. An active antifascist fighter, Muñoz Suay was considered one of the most important innovators of the Spanish cinema, during the dark years of Franco’s dictatorship. His work as an assistant director, producer and screenwriter was related with films such as Luis García Berlanga’s “Bienvenido, Mr. Marshall,” “El […]

Alexander Munn (1970 - 1812)

Noted Canadian Shipbuilder. A native of Irvine (Scotland), he sailed in May of 1793 to the city of Québec and eventually opened a shipyard at the Anse-des-Mères in the Cap-Blanc borough of this city. He became one of the biggest shipbuilders of the British Empire. His remains lie beside those of his wife, Agnes Galloway, […]

George Huntington Mumford (1805 - 1871)

Business magnate. He was co-financier of the Western Union Telegraph Company with Don Alonzo Watson and Henry Sayre Potter. (bio by: Mount Hope NY)

Sam Muchnick (1905 - 1998)

Businessman. He was the founder of the National Wrestling Alliance in 1948 and served as president for 25 years. Considered the dean of wrestling promoters, he also founded the St. Louis Wrestling Club in 1958. He was elected to the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2003. Before becoming involved with wrestling, he was a […]

Lemuel Oscar Motlow (1970 - 1947)

Businessman. He was the owner and operator of the famous Jack Daniel Distillery. Jasper “Jack” Daniel took over the distillery just after the Civil War. It’s ownership eventually passed to Daniel’s nephew Lemuel Motlow. Prohibition had begun in the 1920s and he moved his distillery to St. Louis, Missouri and in 1923 he made a […]

William Russell Mote (1906 - 2000)

A successful businessman, Mote’s gifts founded the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida. He had a lifelong love of fishing and the sea. He received the 1994 International Oceanographic Foundation’s Gold Medal Award for a “nonprofessional who has done the most in the past year to promote the study of the sea”. In addition, he […]

Atkinson Morley (1970 - 1858)

Left money with which the Atkinson Morley Hospital was built. He was a hotel proprietor.

Taichiro Morinaga (1970 - 1970)

Businessman. Founder of what is now known as the Morinaga Co. Ltd. He introduced the production of western-style confectionery products in Japan. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Max Morehouse (1865 - 1923)

Born in Elyria Ohio, Max Morehouse spent his adult life in the retail business owning stores in Elyria, Lorain, Findlay and Toledo Ohio before moving to Columbus Ohio in 1899 where he opened Rowland, Morehouse and Martens Co., a modern Department store that for a time challenged F.R. Lazarus and Company (located directly across High […]

Joseph Hopkins Millard (1836 - 1922)

US Senator. He came to the United States when he was 14 years old. The family settled in Jackson County, Iowa. He came to Omaha in October 1856 to work in the real estate firm of Barrows Millard & Company. In January 1867 he became the cashier of the Omaha National Bank. Later he was […]

Kokichi Mikimoto (1858 - 1954)

Businessman. Founder of the Mikimoto Jewelry company. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Simon J. Michelson (1879 - 1938)

Founder of Michelson Jewelers. (bio by: Tim Crutchfield)

Helen Honig Meyer (1907 - 2003)

Publisher. She worked her way through the ranks of Dell Publishing to become one of the first women to lead a major publishing company. She began working for Dell in 1923. She was the firm’s president and chief executive from the early 1950s until it was sold to Doubleday & Co. in 1976. During that […]

Fred G. Meyer (1886 - 1978)

Supermarket magnate. Born Frederick Grubmeyer, he traveled west and settled in Portland, Oregon, in 1909. There he founded the Java Coffee Company, which was renamed Mission Coffee Company in 1915. In 1922 he founded a grocery store bearing his name; 11 years later, pioneering the concept of “one-stop shopping,” he expanded his store to the […]