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Bookmark or Share- A Brief Overview of the Pullman Story - Pullman National Historical ...George Pullman from a July 1894, edition of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Library of Congress. George Mortimer Pullman was born in Brockton, NY to his mother, Emily, and father, James. When he was young, his family relocated to Albion, NY along the Erie Canal. Pullman dropped out of school when he was 14 and began working with his ...
- George Pullman - WikipediaGeorge Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town in Chicago for the workers who manufactured it. This ultimately led to the Pullman Strike due to the high rent prices charged for company housing and low wages ...
- George Pullman: His Impact on the Railroad Industry, Labor, and ...George Mortimer Pullman was an influential industrialist of the nineteenth century and the founder of the Pullman Palace Car Company. His innovations brought comfort and luxury to railroad travel in the 1800s with the introduction of sleeping cars, dining cars, and parlor cars.
- George M. Pullman - Britannica MoneyGeorge M. Pullman (born March 3, 1831, Brocton, New York, U.S.—died October 19, 1897, Chicago) was an American industrialist and inventor of the Pullman sleeping car, a luxurious railroad coach designed for overnight travel. In 1894, workers at his Pullman’s Palace Car Company initiated the Pullman Strike, which severely disrupted rail travel in the midwestern United States and established ...
- The Rise and Fall of the Sleeping Car King | SmithsonianGeorge Pullman did not invent the sleeping car—most of the credit went to Theodore T. Woodruff, an upstate New York wagon maker whose car debuted in 1857. But Pullman contributed his share of ...
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