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Where would we be without the ‘Robber Barons’ of old?..............

Wiki:

List of businessmen who were labeled as robber barons

The people here are listed in Josephson, Robber Barons or in the cited source,

John Jacob Astor (real estate, fur) – New York
Andrew Carnegie (steel) – Pittsburgh and New York
William A. Clark (copper) – Butte, Montana[11]
Jay Cooke (finance) – Philadelphia
Charles Crocker (railroads) – California
Daniel Drew (finance) – New York
James Buchanan Duke (tobacco) – Durham, North Carolina
Marshall Field (retail) – Chicago[12]
James Fisk (finance) – New York
Henry Morrison Flagler (railroads, oil) – New York and Florida[13]
Henry Clay Frick (steel) – Pittsburgh and New York
John Warne Gates (barbed wire, oil) – Texas[14]
Jay Gould (railroads) – New York[15]
Edward Henry Harriman (railroads) – New York[16]
Charles T. Hinde (railroads, water transport, shipping, hotels) - Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, California
Mark Hopkins (railroads) – California
Collis Potter Huntington (railroads) - California
Andrew W. Mellon (finance, oil) - Pittsburgh
J. P. Morgan (finance, industrial consolidation) – New York
John Cleveland Osgood (coal mining, iron) - Colorado[17]
Henry B. Plant (railroads) – Florida[18]
John D. Rockefeller (oil) – Cleveland, New York
Charles M. Schwab (steel) – Pittsburgh and New York
Joseph Seligman (banking) – New York
John D. Spreckels (water transport, railroads, sugar) – California
Leland Stanford (railroads) - California
Cornelius Vanderbilt (water transport, railroads) – New York[19]
Charles Tyson Yerkes (street railroads) – Chicago[20]

Fine CAPITALISTS, all.............