| 词条 | David Sinton |
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| name = David Sinton | image = David Sinton.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1808|06|26}} | birth_place = County Armagh, Ireland | death_date = {{death date and age|1900|08|31|1808|06|26}} | death_place = Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. | death_cause = | residence = | education = | alma_mater = | employer = | occupation = Journalist | title = | boards = | religion = | spouse = {{marriage|Jane Ellison ||1853|reason=her death}} | children = Anna Sinton Taft | parents = John Sinton Mary McDonnell | relatives = Charles Phelps Taft (son-in-law) }} David Sinton (26 June 1808 – 31 August 1900) was a pig-iron industrialist, born in County Armagh, Ireland, who became one of the wealthiest people in America. Early lifeSinton was the son of linen manufacturer John Sinton, of Unshinagh, a Quaker (he was a cousin of Irish Quaker industrialist brothers Thomas Sinton and John Sinton), and Mary McDonnell.[1] In 1811, the family came to America, from Ireland, and settled at Pittsburgh when he was three years of age. Sinton had one brother (Dr. William Sinton, a physician) and two sisters (Isabella Eliza - never left Ireland and Sarah, married John Sparks - a banker).[1][2] CareerIn the 1830s, Sinton was a manager of the iron works at Hanging Rock, Ohio. In 1846, he managed to become the owner and made his headquarters in Cincinnati.[3] A man of "irregular education",[4] his business interests centered on the manufacture of iron; the location of his furnaces was Lawrence County, Ohio.[5] Much of his fortune was made by stockpiling pig iron, waiting for the American Civil War and the selling that iron on at inflated prices.[4] He eventually acquired the majority of stock in the Eureka Company and, at the time that Oxmoor merged with the DeBardeleben Coal and Iron Company, he owned most of Oxmoor.[6] He was described as "a large, strong person with strong common sense, and therefore moves solely on the solid foundation of facts." His residence, at Cincinnati, was the old Longworth mansion on Pike Street, built by Martin Baum early in the 19th century. Mr. Sinton's only surviving child, Annie, was the wife of Charles Phelps Taft, editor of the Times-Star[5] and brother of William Howard Taft; Sinton money was said to have financed the presidential bid.[4] Personal lifeSinton married Jane Ellison (1826–1853), a daughter of John Ellison (1779–1829), at Union Landing, Ohio. They had two children:
Sinton died on August 31, 1900 in Cincinnati, Ohio.[8] Upon his death, he left $20,000,000 (the 2011 equivalent of this is about $500,000,000) to his daughter, he was Ohio's richest man at the time.[8] His home is now the Taft Museum of Art.[9][10] DescendantsThrough his daughter Anna, he was the grandfather of Jane Taft Ingalls (1874–1962), David Sinton Taft (1876–1891), Anna Louise Taft Semple (1879–1961), and Charles Howard Taft (1885–1931). He was the great-grandfather of First World War flying ace David Sinton Ingalls.[11] LegacyDuring his lifetime, Sinton was philanthropic in his donations to the arts and the Presbyterian church, yet his own father's grave was not marked with a headstone; "but David Sinton is wiser in his generation than they who seek to stab his character in such a paragraph [as erecting an ornate sepulcher]. He is one of God's noblemen."[12] The town of Sinton, Texas is named in his honor (given that he was the majority stock holder in Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company,[13] as is the Sinton Hotel, a famous Cincinnati hotel.[14] References1. ^1 2 {{cite book|last1=Evans|first1=Nelson Wiley|last2=Stivers|first2=Emmons B.|title=A History of Adams County, Ohio: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth ...|date=1900|publisher=E B. Stivers|page=621|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8HwUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA621&lpg=PA621|accessdate=15 December 2017|language=en}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Sinton, David}}2. ^{{cite book|title=History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio|date=1894|publisher=S. B. Nelson & Company|pages=469–470|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a1QMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA469|accessdate=15 December 2017|language=en}} 3. ^{{cite book|last1=Association|first1=American Iron and Steel|title=The Bulletin of the American Iron and Steel Association|date=1908|publisher=James M. Swank|page=69|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jXI9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA69|accessdate=15 December 2017|language=en}} 4. ^1 2 Hess, Stephen, America's Political Dynasties, P. 306 5. ^1 Historical Collections of Ohio: Pages 843-847 6. ^{{cite book|last1=Armes|first1=Ethel|title=The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama|date=1910|publisher=Pub. under auspices of the Chamber of Commerce|page=261|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iuZYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA261&lpg=PA261|accessdate=15 December 2017|language=en}} 7. ^{{cite web|last1=Kingdom|first1=Bob Sinton, Tandragee, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland, United|title=Sinton Family Trees - Details of Edward M. Sinton, son of David Sinton and Jane Ellison, Born 1848, Died 1869|url=http://www.sinton-family-trees.uk/ft_main.php?rin=1133|website=www.sinton-family-trees.uk|accessdate=15 December 2017|language=en}} 8. ^1 {{cite news|title=OHIO'S RICHEST MAN DEAD.; David Sinton Leaves $20,000,000 to His Daughter.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1900/09/01/101065354.pdf|accessdate=15 December 2017|work=The New York Times|date=September 1, 1900|language=en}} 9. ^Taft Museum of Art 10. ^{{cite book|last1=Rogers|first1=Gregory Parker|title=Fountain Square and the Genius of Water: The Heart of Cincinnati|date=2013|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9781614239598|page=17|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z6l2CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT17&lpg=PT17|accessdate=15 December 2017|language=en}} 11. ^{{cite news|title=Milestones, Feb. 9, 1931|url=https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,741041-2,00.html|accessdate=15 December 2017|work=Time|date=9 February 1931}} 12. ^The Lawrence County Register 13. ^Relocate America; Sinton, Texas 14. ^Adams County, Ohio - notable people 12 : People from County Armagh|1808 births|1900 deaths|American Civil War industrialists|American philanthropists|Irish philanthropists|Irish Quakers|Businesspeople from Cincinnati|Taft family|Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923)|19th-century American politicians|19th-century philanthropists |
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