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Cornelius Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt constructed the railroad and owned a steamboat company. He was considered both a captain of industry and robber baron due to his university but lack of improving working conditions. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie dominated the steel industry. He used a monopoly by controlling the complete process of a product. Andrew Carnegie was also a philanthropist, he created the gospel of wealth. -
JP Morgan
During the Gilded Age, J.P. Morgan stood astride the nation's financial world. His banking house erected the structure of the most prominent American industries in the Gilded Age beginning with the railroad. After the Panic of 1893, he reorganized many bankrupt railroads and industrial companies. -
John Rockefeller
John Rockefeller was a gilded age industrialist and the founder of standard oil. To eliminate his competitors, Rockefeller used his firm's superior size to negotiate preferential rates from the railroads that transported both his and his competitors' oil, making it nearly impossible for his competitors to stay in business.
