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CYRUS H. K. CURTIS Cyrus H. K. Curtis (1850-1933) founded the magazine
Tribune and Farmer in Philadephia in 1876 with his wife,
Louise Knapp Curtis, in charge of the women’s column. The latter was so popular
that Curtis expanded it into Ladies’ Home Journal in He established the Curtis Publishing Company in 1890 and seven years later bought
The Saturday Evening Post for the sum of With his marketing savvy, both magazines went onto become two of the biggest success stories in periodical history, with
Ladies’ HomeJournal hitting one million in circulation by 1893 and
The SaturdayEvening Post doing so in 1909.
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GEORGE EASTMAN George Eastman (1854-1932), whose handheld Kodak camera and $1 Brownie Camera for kids opened photography up to the masses, in 1924 gave away half his fortune,
about $75 million (more than $790
million today, for such institutions as the University of Rochester and Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He was the first large-scale manufacturer to use profit sharing as an employee benefit.
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JOHN W. DAVIS John W. Davis (1873-1955), like Napoleon Hill a
Virginian, served as Solicitor
General of the United States,
Ambassador to Great Britain, and as an advisor to Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference. He was soundly beaten by Coolidge in a run for the Presidency. In 1952 he won a landmark Supreme Court case when he convinced the Court that President Harry Truman had exceeded his constitutional powers in seizing the steel mills.
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WILBUR WRIGHT Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) got the idea for the design of his and brother Orville’s famous aircraft after watching buzzards flying. Ashe watched the graceful arcs the birds made during flight, he suddenly realized
that to fly successfully, an airplane must be capable of moving on three axes—banking, moving up and down, and steering right and left.
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