Charles Ranlett Flint
E51147
Charles Ranlett Flint was an American financier and industrialist best known for orchestrating mergers that led to the creation of major corporations, including the company that became IBM.
Aliases (1)
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
→
financier → human → industrialist → |
| burialPlace |
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
→
|
| businessPartner |
William Russell Grace
→
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
→
|
| dateOfBirth |
1850-01-24
→
|
| dateOfDeath |
1934-02-26
→
|
| educatedAt |
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute
→
|
| employer |
Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company
→
|
| era |
Gilded Age
→
|
| familyName |
Flint
→
|
| fieldOfWork |
corporate finance
→
industrial consolidation → technology industry development → |
| founded |
Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company
→
|
| fullName |
Charles Ranlett Flint
→
|
| givenName |
Charles
→
|
| hasEthnicGroup |
White American
→
|
| hasNickname |
Father of Trusts
→
|
| hasRelative |
Benjamin Chapman (stepfather)
→
Charles Ranlett (grandfather) → |
| industry |
finance
→
manufacturing → shipping → |
| influenced |
development of large-scale American corporations
→
|
| knownFor |
founding Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company
→
orchestrating corporate mergers → role in formation of IBM → |
| languageSpoken |
English
→
|
| memberOf |
New York Yacht Club
→
|
| nationality |
American
→
|
| notableAchievement |
helped create one of the largest early technology companies in the United States
→
organized numerous industrial consolidations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries → |
| notableAssociatedCompany |
International Business Machines Corporation
→
|
| notableWork |
merger of Hollerith's Tabulating Machine Company into CTR
→
|
| occupation |
business executive
→
financier → industrialist → |
| placeOfBirth |
Thomaston, Maine
→
|
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
→
|
| positionHeld |
partner at W. R. Grace and Company
→
|
| precededBy |
independent companies that merged into CTR
→
|
| residence |
New York City
→
|
| sexOrGender |
male
→
|
| significantEvent |
orchestrated merger of several companies to form Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in 1911
→
|
Referenced by (4)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company
→
IBM → |
foundedBy |
|
Charles Ranlett Flint
→
|
fullName |
|
Federal Steel Company
("John Warne Gates")
→
|
hasBoardMember |