User:DavidLevinson/Wealthy 100

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Table:The Wealthy 100

Rank	Name	Birth Year	Death Year	Fortune	Ratio
2	Cornelius Vanderbilt	1794	1877	105000	87
3	John Jacob Astor	1763	1848	20000	107
4	Stephen Girard	1750	1831	7500	150
5	Andrew Carnegie	1835	1919	475000	166
6	A.T. Stewart	1803	1876	50000	178
7	Frederick Weyerhaeuser	1834	1914	200000	182
8	Jay Gould	1836	1892	77000	185
9	Stephen Van Rensselaer	1764	1839	10000	194
10	Marshall Field	1834	1906	140000	205
11	Henry Ford	1863	1947	1000000	231
12	Andrew W. Mellon	1855	1937	350000	258
13	Richard B. Mellon	1858	1933	350000	258
14	Sam M. Walton	1918	1992	22000000	275
15	James G. Fair	1831	1894	45000	280
16	William Weightman	1813	1904	80000	286
17	Moses Taylor	1806	1882	40000	286
18	Russell Sage	1816	1906	100000	287
19	John I. Blair	1802	1899	60000	289
20	Cyrus Curtis	1850	1933	174000	320
21	Edward Henry Harriman	1848	1909	100000	322
22	Henry H. Rogers	1840	1909	100000	322
23	J. P. Morgan	1837	1913	119000	328
24	Col. Oliver Payne	1839	1917	178000	337
26	Collis Potter Huntington	1821	1900	50000	374
27	Peter A. Widener	1834	1915	100000	387
28	James Cair Flood	1826	1888	30000	405
29	Nicholas Longworth	1782	1863	15000	411
30	Philip Danforth Armour	1832	1901	50000	413
31	Bill Gates	1955	[[ ]]	15000000	425
32	Mark Hopkins	1813	1878	20000	446
33	Edward Clark	1810	1882	25000	458
34	Leland Stanford	1824	1893	30000	462
35	William Rockefeller	1841	1922	150000	493
36	Hetty Green	1834	1916	100000	498
37	James J. Hill	1838	1916	100000	498
38	Elias Hasket Derby	1739	1799	800	515
39	Warren Buffett	1930	[[ ]]	12000000	532
40	Claus Spreckels	1828	1908	50000	554
41	George Peabody	1795	1869	16000	556
42	Charles Crocker	1822	1888	20000	608
43	William Andrews Clark	1839	1925	150000	609
44	George Eastman	1854	1932	95000	611
45	Charles Tiffany	1812	1902	35000	616
46	Thomas Fortune Ryan	1851	1928	155000	633
47	Edward Stephen Harkness	1874	1940	155000	643
48	Henry M. Flagler	1830	1913	60000	651
49	James Buchanan Duke	1856	1925	140000	652
50	Israel Thorndike	1755	1832	1800	674
51	William S. O'Brien	1825	1878	12000	696
52	Isaac Merritt Singer	1811	1875	13000	709
53	George Hearst	1820	1891	19000	712
54	John Hancock	1736	1793	350	714
55	John W. Garrett	1820	1884	15000	715
56	John W. Mackay	1831	1902	30000	718
57	Julius Rosenwald	1862	1932	80000	726
58	George F. Baker	1840	1931	100000	758
59	George Washington	1732	1799	530	777
60	Anthony N. Brady	1834	1913	50000	781
61	Adolphus Busch	1839	1919	50000	781
62	John T. Dorrance	1873	1930	115000	786
63	George Pullman	1831	1897	17500	835
64	Robert Wood Johnson, Jr.	1893	1968	1000000	864
65	Horace E. Dodge	1868	1920	100000	889
66	John F. Dodge	1864	1920	100000	889
67	J. Paul Getty	1892	1976	2000000	893
68	William Aspinwall	1807	1875	4000	913
69	Johns Hopkins	1795	1873	10000	944
70	John Werner Kluge	1914	[[ ]]	6700000	952
71	Samuel Colt	1814	1862	5000	966
72	James Stillman	1850	1918	77000	989
73	William Collins Whitney	1841	1904	23000	993
74	William Thaw	1818	1889	12000	1040
75	Paul G. Allen	1953	[[ ]]	6100000	1046
76	Cyrus McCormick	1809	1884	10000	1072
77	Arthur Vining Davis	1867	1962	400000	1103
78	Thomas H. Perkins	1764	1854	3000	1116
79	Joseph Pulitzer	1847	1911	30000	1142
80	Daniel Willis James	1832	1907	26000	1169
81	Howard Hughes	1905	1976	1500000	1190
82	Frank W. Woolworth	1852	1919	6500	1214
83	John McDonogh	1779	1850	2000	1278
84	Samuel Slater	1768	1835	1200	1312
85	August Belmont	1816	1890	10000	1313
86	Benjamin Franklin	1706	1790	150	1320
87	Sumner Murray Redstone	1923	[[ ]]	4800000	1329
88	Capt. Robert Dollar	1844	1932	40000	1451
89	Richard Warren Sears	1863	1914	25000	1457
90	H. L. Hunt	1889	1974	1000000	1474
91	Jay Van Andel	1924	[[ ]]	4300000	1483
92	Richard M. DeVos	1926	[[ ]]	4300000	1483
93	Henry Phipps	1839	1930	60000	1506
94	Lawrence J. Ellison	1944	[[ ]]	4300000	1519
95	Ronald Owen Perelman	1943	[[ ]]	4300000	1519
96	Peter Chardon Brooks	1767	1849	1300	1646
97	Charles W. Post	1854	1914	22000	1656
98	Samuel I. Newhouse	1895	1979	1500000	1681
99	William Wrigley, Jr.	1861	1932	34000	1707
100	David Packard	1912	1996	3700000	1724

source: http://www.scottwinslow.com/2002/wealthy.asp