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Elbert Gary was born near Wheaton, Illinois, United States on October 8, 1846, to Erastus Gary and Susan A. Vallette.
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Elbert Gary was born near Wheaton, Illinois, United States on October 8, 1846, to Erastus Gary and Susan A. Vallette.
He attended Wheaton College and graduated first in his class from Union College of Law in 1868.
Gary started to practice law in Chicago in 1871. Among his most important directorships was the Illinois Steel Company. Gary had helped found the American Steel and Wire Company and the Federal Steel Company.
In 1900 at the age of 54, Gary moved from Wheaton to New York City, where he established the headquarters of U. S. Steel. Gary served as president and chairman of the board of America's first billion-dollar corporation, U. S. Steel, from the company's founding in 1901 until his death in August 1927.
In 1914 he was made chairman of the committee appointed by the Mayor of New York, John Purroy Mitchel, to study the question of unemployment and its relief. When America entered World War I in 1917, he was appointed chairman of the committee on steel of the Council of National Defense. Through his connection with a business essential to producing munitions of war, he exerted great influence in bringing about cooperation between the government and industry.
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His first wife, Julia Graves, whom he married in 1869, died in 1902; they had two daughters, Gertrude and Bertha, who survived him. Gary was also survived by his second wife, Emma T. Townsend, whom he had married in 1905.