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Charles Merrill

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Charles Merrill
An American stockbroker. In 1915, he co-founded the company that created Merrill Lynch and was able to avoid much of the Great Crash of 1929 by diversifying his investments. Merrill was noted for investing in retail chains, notably Safeway and the company that became K-Mart. He lived from 1885 to 1956.


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Merrill Lynch co-founder Charles Merrill lived there in the 1920s; and his son, the poet James Merrill, was born there.
Renowned for its logo of a rampaging bull, Merrill Lynch was founded in 1914 by two entrepreneurs - Charles Merrill and Edmund Lynch - who met at a YMCA after moving to Manhattan.
Others attending the event were Charles Merrill, Stephen Owen and Frank Wilson.
 
 
 
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