My eight year old daughter asked me this tonight at dinner: Who was the first person in the United States of America to earn one million dollars? Let’s say, not in a year, but be worth a million dollars.
I can't even figure out where to start finding this one. Any thoughts?
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My feeling is that we did this over at snopes, but can’t remember the exact answer. It certainly was someone around revolutionary time. Perhaps Stephen Girard, or ?? I’ll try to remember.
We did this here too.
My mistake. I read it here and searched for the answer. But never had an answer to post.
The answer is–1st Billionaire=Rockefeller
1st Millionaire=depends on how you look at it. I think I read in my searches that there were at least one or two land owners in Colonial America before John Jacob Astor came along, who were worth 1 mil.
Alpha, as far as I’m concerned you can lock my thread now. I apologize, for the waste of space- I MUST learn to use the Archives correctly. Sorry.
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