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George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American inventor and industrialist. He is known as the inventor of the Pullman sleeping car, and for violently suppressing striking workers in the company town he created, Pullman, Chicago. Born in Brocton, New York, his family moved... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
Date of Birth:
1831
Date of Death:
1897
Place of Birth: Brocton
Nationality:
United States
Profession:
Inventor, Businessperson
Religion:
Unitarian Universalism

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Pullman Palace Car Company, Pullman, company and Pullman Company.

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Passenger car (rail) The Pullman Palace Car Company, founded by George Pullman, manufactured railroad cars in the mid to late 1800s through the early decades of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the United States.

Pullman Company The Pullman Palace Car Company, founded by George Pullman, manufactured railroad cars in the mid to late 1800s through the early decades of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the United States.

Edmond Edward Wysinger The Pullman Palace Car Company, founded by George Pullman, manufactured railroad cars in the mid to late 1800s through the early decades of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the United States.

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List of historical sites related to the Illinois labor movement The first planned industrial town in the nation, Pullman was founded in 1880 by George Pullman, inventor of the railroad sleeping car, for his workers.

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Pullman Company This tradition finds its origins after the company's founder, George Pullman.

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March 3 in rail transport 1831 – George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist, and founder of the Pullman Company, is born (d. 1897).

built :
Pullman, buildings, town, sleeping car and house.

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Pullman, Chicago Historic Pullman was built in the 1880s by George Pullman for his eponymous railroad car company, the Pullman Palace Car Company.

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Pullman, Chicago By 1972 the Pullman Historic District had obtained National, State, and City landmark status to protect the original 900 rowhouses and public buildings built by George Pullman.

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Welfare capitalism (Brandes 1976) George Pullman built the most famous company town (Pullman, Chicago) as a paternalistic experiment - one ruined by the 1894 Pullman strike.

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List of historical sites related to the Illinois labor movement George Pullman came here in 1858 to build his first sleeping car.

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George Pullman In 1867 Pullman married Harriet Sanger and built a house in Chicago.

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hours, wages and jobs.

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George Pullman When business fell off in 1894, Pullman cut jobs, wages and working hours, but not rents or prices in his town.

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George Pullman When business fell off in 1894, Pullman cut jobs, wages and working hours, but not rents or prices in his town.

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George Pullman When business fell off in 1894, Pullman cut jobs, wages and working hours, but not rents or prices in his town.

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    George Pullman

    George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American inventor and industrialist. He is known as the inventor of the Pullman sleeping car, and for violently suppressing striking workers in the company town he created, Pullman, Chicago.
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    Pullman Company

    This tradition finds its origins after the company's founder, George Pullman.
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    Pullman, Chicago

    Historic Pullman was built in the 1880s by George Pullman for his eponymous railroad car company, the Pullman Palace Car Company.
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    Hotel Florence

    George Pullman named the hotel after his oldest daughter, Florence Pullman.
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    Pullman

    George Pullman, founder of the Pullman Company
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    Pullman (car or coach)

    In the United States, Pullman was used to refer to railroad sleeping cars which were built and operated on most U.S. railroads by the Pullman Company (founded by George Pullman) from 1867 to December 31, 1968.
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    Pullman, Washington

    The city was later renamed after railroad car maker George Pullman.
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    Pullman Strike

    The owner of the company, George Pullman, was a "welfare capitalist."
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    List of historical sites related to the Illinois labor movement

    George Pullman came here in 1858 to build his first sleeping car.
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    Pullman train (UK)

    George Pullman

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