Charles Ranlett Flint

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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.

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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

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