Herman Ossian Armour (March 7, 1837 – September 8, 1901) was an American businessman and philanthropist who with his brother,

Philip Danforth Armour Philip Danforth Armour Sr. (16 May 1832 – 6 January 1901) was an American meatpacking industrialist who founded the Chicago-based firm of Armour & Company. Born on an upstate New York farm, he made $8,000 in the California gold rush, 185 ...

, co-founded the meatpacking firm of

Armour & Company Armour & Company was an American company and was one of the five leading firms in the meat packing industry. It was founded in Chicago, in 1867, by the Armour brothers led by Philip Danforth Armour. By 1880, the company had become Chicago's most ...

, which would exist as the nation's largest such company for much of the twentieth century. Born the seventh of eight children in Stockbridge, New York, his parents were Methodists of English and Scottish ancestry. In 1865, Armour established the New York syndicate of Armour Meats under the name ''Armour, Plankinton & Co.'' This move was prompted by a series of restrictive laws regarding lines of credit in effect throughout most Midwestern states at the time. American forebear of the Armour family,

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James Armour was among the earliest to settle in the newly established British colony of

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, arriving just three years after its establishment in 1664, though settlers from Holland, Germany, Sweden, and France had been living in the area since 1614 in the former

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and

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(''Nya Sverige'') colonies. Armour died on September 8, 1901 at his

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home and was laid to rest at the family mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery. Armour was a delegate to the

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and a

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in the 1896 presidential election.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Armour, Herman Ossian 1837 births 1901 deaths Philanthropists from New York (state) Businesspeople in the meat packing industry People from Stockbridge, New York 19th-century American philanthropists Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York) 1896 United States presidential electors New York Central College alumni Armour family

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